Some high profile candidates trying their fate in these elections are three former BJP Chief Ministers Bhuvan Chandra Khanduri, Bhagat Singh Koshiyari and Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishank besides Chief Minister Harish Rawat's wife Renuka, former CM Vjay Bahuguna's son Saket and daughter-in-law of erstwhile Tehri royal family Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah.
BJP heavyweight Khanduri is pitted against Cabinet minister and Congress MLA from Ruydraprayag Assembly constituency Harak Singh Rawat in Pauri-Garhwal Lok Sabha seat.
Former CM Koshiyari is taking on sitting Congress MP K C Singh Baba in Nainital, where AAP's Balbir Singh Cheema and BSP's Laik Ahmed are expected to make contest interesting.
Nishank, also a former CM, is pitted against Harish Rawat's wife Renuka in Haridwar from where AAP nominee and the country's first woman DGP Kanchan Chaudhry Bhattacharya is also in the fray.
Former CM Bahuguna's son Saket is pitted once again against sitting BJP MP Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah in Tehri to whom he had lost by more than 20,000 votes in 2012 bypoll to the seat.
In Almora sitting Congress MP Pradeeep Tamta is pitted against BJP's Ajay Tamta.
In most of the seats opposition BJP and the ruling Congress appear to be locked in a straight contest. However, in Haridwar and Nainital seats the AAP, BSP and SP are trying hard to make the contest three cornered.
