 The area is part of the South Goa (Lok Sabha constituency) (also known as Mormugão (Lok Sabha constituency) ).The Congress candidate Francisco Sardinha won the 2007 Lok Sabha bypoll elections, defeating his close rival Dr. Wilfred Mesquita of the Bharatiya Janata Party by a margin of over 40,000 votes.In the 2014 General elections, Adv.