In a bid to take revenge for general election-2009, when BJP had lost all five seats to Congress, BJP had placed its best five, while Congress had placed two sitting MPs in Kumaon division and three defeated leaders from Garhwal division. Talking to The Pioneer, leader of Opposition Ajay Bhatt said that: "We were confident that we would win all five seats, but the victory margin was not expected that much."
BJP had placed three ex-CMs, namely Bhagat Singh Koshiyari, Maj Gen Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri and Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank from Nainital-Udhamsinghnagar, Garhwal and Haridwar lok Sabha constituency respectively. In the remaining two seats, BJP had fielded sitting MlA Ajay Tamta and sitting Tehri MP Mala Rajya laxmi Shah from Almora and Tehri Garhwal lok Sabha constituency respectively.
While Congress had fielded three two sitting MPs Pradeep Tamta and KC Singh Baba from Almora and Nainital-Udhamsinghnagar constituency respectively while three candidates, who had already tasted defeat in lok Sabha election earlier, namely Saket Bahuguna, Harak Singh Rawat and Renuka Rawat were fielded from Tehri Garhwal, Garhwal and Haridwar lok seat respectively in which Saket Bahuguna, who is son of former CM Vijay Bahuguna and grand son of former CM Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna, had lost Tehri lok Sabha bypoll with BJP candidate Mala Rajya laxmi Shah by 22,000 votes in 2012, has lost again Tehri seat with MP Rajya laxmi Shah by around 1,92,503 votes.
Sitting cabinet minister Harak Singh Rawat, who had lost lok Saaha election from then Pauri in 1998, has lost Garhwal seat with ex-CM Maj Gen Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri by 1,84,526 votes.
Renuka Rawat, wife of incumbent state chief minister Harish Rawat, has lost Haridwar seat with Ex-CM Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank by 177822 votes. With this declaration, CM Rawat, who had assured party high command that if he would be made chief minister of Uttarakhand, then he would win three out of five lok Sabha seat and one each seat will be won by then congress MP Satpal Maharaj and former CM Vijay Bahuguna respectively, has been under pressure to resign from the post.
BJP MlA Ajay Tamta, who had lost general election with Pradeep Tamta during general election-2009, has balanced his defeat by winning Almora constituency with sitting MP Pradeep Tamta by 95690 votes. Ex-CM Bhagat Singh Koshiyari has defeated Congress two times MP KC Singh Baba by highest margin i.e. 2,84,717 votes from Nainital-Udhamsinghnagar constituency.