Rajya Sabha Elections: How numbers stack up for 15 seats in three states — A look at the election formula

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Rajya Sabha Elections 2024: As many as 41 of the total 56 leaders were elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. The returning officers declared these 41 leaders winners on the last date of withdrawal of nominations as there were no other candidates in the fray on these 41 seats. Among these 41 leaders were former Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief JP Nadda, Ashok Chavan and Union ministers Ashwini Vaishnaw and L Murugan.

As per news agency PTI, the BJP won the highest number of 20 seats, followed by the Congress (6), Trinamool Congress (4), YSR Congress (3), RJD (2), BJD (2) and NCP, Shiv Sena, BRS and JD(U) one each. ALSO READ: Bihar Rajya Sabha polls: All six candidates declared elected unopposed The Rajya Sabha biennial election for remaining 15 seats is scheduled on February 27. The 15 seats are spread across three states — Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka. Let's check out what is the Rajya Sabha election formula and process, who are the candidates and how numbers stack up for 15 seats in these three states? Rajya Sabha MPs are elected by MLAs through the proportional representation process with the single transferable vote (STV) system.

Each MLA’s vote is counted only once. The MLAs don’t vote for each seat. Instead, the MLAs have to list different candidates in order of their preference.

If the MLAs qualified to vote choose a particular candidate as their first choice, he or she gets elected. The remaining votes go to the next candidates, but with a lesser value. So, MLAs also vote for candidates from other parties.