diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/RDD.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/RDD.scala
index 7859781e9822..dc4532599cc8 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/RDD.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/RDD.scala
@@ -447,20 +447,21 @@ abstract class RDD[T: ClassTag](
       : RDD[T] = withScope {
     require(numPartitions > 0, s"Number of partitions ($numPartitions) must be positive.")
     if (shuffle) {
-      /** Distributes elements evenly across output partitions, starting from a random partition. */
-      val distributePartition = (index: Int, items: Iterator[T]) => {
-        var position = new Random(hashing.byteswap32(index)).nextInt(numPartitions)
+      // Distributes elements by their hashes across output partitions, starting from a random
+      // partition.
+      // TODO distribute elements evenly after resolved the falling case described in SPARK-23243
+      val distributePartition = (items: Iterator[T]) => {
         items.map { t =>
+          val hash = if (t == null) 0 else t.hashCode()
           // Note that the hash code of the key will just be the key itself. The HashPartitioner
           // will mod it with the number of total partitions.
-          position = position + 1
-          (position, t)
-        }
-      } : Iterator[(Int, T)]
+          (hash, t)
+        } : Iterator[(Int, T)]
+      }
 
       // include a shuffle step so that our upstream tasks are still distributed
       new CoalescedRDD(
-        new ShuffledRDD[Int, T, T](mapPartitionsWithIndex(distributePartition),
+        new ShuffledRDD[Int, T, T](mapPartitions(distributePartition),
         new HashPartitioner(numPartitions)),
         numPartitions,
         partitionCoalescer).values
diff --git a/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/RDDSuite.scala b/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/RDDSuite.scala
index e994d724c462..9c1c35a37aba 100644
--- a/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/RDDSuite.scala
+++ b/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/RDDSuite.scala
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import java.io.{File, IOException, ObjectInputStream, ObjectOutputStream}
 import scala.collection.JavaConverters._
 import scala.collection.mutable.{ArrayBuffer, HashMap}
 import scala.reflect.ClassTag
+import scala.util.Random
 
 import com.esotericsoftware.kryo.KryoException
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.{LongWritable, Text}
@@ -326,7 +327,10 @@ class RDDSuite extends SparkFunSuite with SharedSparkContext {
     assert(repartitioned2.collect().toSet === (1 to 1000).toSet)
   }
 
-  test("repartitioned RDDs perform load balancing") {
+  // Ignore the test case since round-robin partitioning can cause incorrect result under some
+  // cases discussed in SPARK-23207 and SPARK-23243. Will re-enable this after we resolved the
+  // issue.
+  ignore("repartitioned RDDs perform load balancing") {
     // Coalesce partitions
     val input = Array.fill(1000)(1)
     val initialPartitions = 10
@@ -361,6 +365,30 @@ class RDDSuite extends SparkFunSuite with SharedSparkContext {
     testSplitPartitions(Array.fill(1000)(1), 250, 128)
   }
 
+  test("SPARK-23243: Make repartition() generate consistent output") {
+    def assertConsistency(rdd: RDD[Any]): Unit = {
+      rdd.persist()
+
+      val partitions1 = rdd.mapPartitions { iter =>
+        Random.shuffle(iter)
+      }.repartition(111).collectPartitions()
+      val partitions2 = rdd.repartition(111).collectPartitions()
+      assert(partitions1.size === partitions2.size)
+      assert(partitions1.zip(partitions2).forall { pair =>
+        pair._1.toSet === pair._2.toSet
+      })
+    }
+
+    // repartition() should generate consistent output.
+    assertConsistency(sc.parallelize(1 to 10000, 10))
+
+    // case when input contains duplicated values.
+    assertConsistency(sc.parallelize(1 to 10000, 10).map(i => Random.nextInt(1000)))
+
+    // case when input contains null values.
+    assertConsistency(sc.parallelize(1 to 100, 10).map(i => if (i % 2 == 0) null else i))
+  }
+
   test("coalesced RDDs") {
     val data = sc.parallelize(1 to 10, 10)