Summary:
While it was a clean sweep for the Congress in 2009, BJP won all five Lok Sabha seats in the state in 2014. In both 2009 and 2014, Uttarakhand saw a 5-0 result in Lok Sabha polls. Dehradun: In Uttarakhand, the party that rules the state finds it hard to win any of the five Lok Sabha seats, previous trends have shown. In 2014, Congress had sitting MPs Pradeep Tamta and K C Singh Baba as party candidates from Almora and Nainital respectively. "Congress state chief Pritam Singh meanwhile said that "the BJP government in the state had failed to bring a Lokayukta and instead of prohibition, revenue target from liquor was being increased each year.".