Goa BJP president Vinay Tendulkar on Friday won the sole Rajya Sabha seat, defeating his Congress counterpart and sitting MP Shantaram Naik.
Tendulkar polled 22 votes, while Naik bagged 16 in the election held at the state assembly complex on Friday in which all the 38 state legislators voted.
The 40-member House has its current strength reduced to 38 due to resignations of two MLAs earlier. It presently has 16 Congress MLAs, 12 of the BJP, 3 each of the Goa Forward Party (GFP), the Maharashtravadi Gomantak Party (MGP) and independents and one of the NCP.