While the victories of Trinamool's Chakraborty, Chowdhury and Singh and CPI-M's Banerjee were a foregone conclusion, a tough contest was on the cards for the fifth seat between Hasan and Malihabadi. The Left earlier said it would transfer its surplus votes to ensure Malihabadi's victory.
However, results showed the Left had transferred all its first preference votes to Banerjee to ensure his smooth sailing.
In Andhra, the Telangana issue overshadowed the polls with the Congress legislators from Telangana voting for the candidates from the region - M.A. Khan and Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) nominee Keshava Rao, who won.
Rao was earlier a member of Rajya Sabha from Congress, which he quit to join TRS last year.
Congress bagged three of the six seats up for grabs, while the Telugu Desam got two. T. Subbarami Reddy, K.V.P. Ramachandra Rao and Khan of the Congress, and T. Sitarama Lakshmi and G. Mohan Rao of TDP were among the triumphant candidates.
