Goa appeared headed for a hung assembly on Saturday with the Congress winning four, and BJP winning on one seats and leading in four and seven other seats respectively.

• Congress Dayanant Sopte registered a win
• Dipak Pawaskar wins from Sawarde seat
• Congress' Francisco Silveira wins from St. Andre seat in Goa
• Former Goa Deputy CM Francisco D'Souza of BJP wins from Mapusa constituency
• Former Goa CM and Congress leader Pratapsingh Rane wins from Poriem constituency
• Congress' Digambar Kamat wins from Margao seat

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party suffered a major blow when Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar was defeated by Dayanand Sopte of the Congress at Mandrem by nearly 5,000 votes.

And at Poriem, former Chief Minister and Congress candidate Pratapsingh Rane defeated his BJP rival Vishwajit K. Rane.

The Congress, which was determined to oust the BJP after losing narrowly to it in the 2012 election, also led in six other constituencies.

BJP candidates won from Mapusa, Bicholim and Mayem and led in other four seats as Election Commission officials made known the results and trends from about 20 of the 40 assembly seats.

The Mapusa victor was Deputy Chief Minister Francis D'Souza, who defeated his Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) rival Vinod Phadke by 6,828 votes.

This is D'Souza's sixth consecutive win in assembly elections. He is the senior most elected BJP legislator in the state.

Nationalist Congress Party's Churchill Alemao won from Benaulim.

The Goa Forward and the MGP won one seat each.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which had made a determined bid to take power in the coastal state, could not win a single seat.

The same was the case with Goa Surakha Manch, formed by ex-RSS leader Subhash Velinkar who had the Shiv Sena as his ally.