On June 7, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh and five others were declared elected unopposed from Andhra Pradesh. Elections will, however, be held across seven states on June 17 but the candidates of the major political parties are assured of victory.

The Congress' Soni and Akali Dal's Balwinder Singh Bhunder were elected to the Rajya Sabha from Punjab without a contest as they were the only candidates in the fray.

Kidwai and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) tribal leader Nand Kumar Sai were reelected from Chhattisgarh.

In Tamil Nadu, six candidates - K.P. Ramalingam, T.M. Selvaganapathy and S. Thangavelu from the ruling DMK, P.H. Manoj Pandian and K. Ramalingam from the AIADMK and Sudarshan Nachiappan from the Congress, were elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha.

In Maharashtra, six candidates from various parties were elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha after an independent candidate withdrew at the last minute.

The Congress' Vijay Darda and Avinash Pandey, the Nationalist Congress Party's Tariq Anwar and Ishwarlal Jain, the BJP's Piyush and Shiv Sena's Sanjay Raut were the successful candidates.

In Uttar Pradesh, the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party got seven of the 11 seats. Congress leader Satish Sharma and BJP's Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi were among those elected uncontested. Two seats were won by the Samajwadi Party.

In Karnataka, liquor baron Vijay Mallay's bid to enter the Rajya Sabha for the second time as an independent rests on the ruling BJP as the Congress did not withdraw its second nominee on Thursday, leaving five candidates in the fray for four seats.

Former BJP President M. Venkaiah Naidu and party’s state leader Ayanur Manjunath are sure of victory as the party has 116 members in the 225-member assembly and has the backing of five of the six independents.