Katehari Assembly constituency

Katehari Assembly constituency is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Katehari in the Ambedkar Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, India. Katehari is one of five assembly constituencies in the Ambedkar Nagar Lok Sabha constituency.^[1]

Katehari
Constituency No. 277 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Ambedkar Nagar
Lok Sabha constituency	Ambedkar Nagar
Total electors	3,94,267
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Dharmraj Nishad
Party	BJP
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2024
Preceded by	Lalji Verma

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[2]	Party
1957	Loknath Singh		Indian National Congress
1962	Raghunath Singh		Socialist Party
1967	Ramnarayan Tripathi		Indian National Congress
1969	Bhagwati Prasad Shukla
1974
1977	Ravindra Nath Tewari		Janata Party
1980	Jiya Ram Shukla		Indian National Congress (I)
1985	Ravindranath Tewari		Janata Party
1989			Janata Dal
1991	Anil Kumar Tewari		Bharatiya Janata Party
1993	Ram Dev Verma		Bahujan Samaj Party
1996	Dharamraj Nishad
2002
2007
2012	Shankhlal Majhi		Samajwadi Party
2017	Lalji Verma		Bahujan Samaj Party
2022			Samajwadi Party
2024^	Dharmraj Nishad		Bharatiya Janata Party

• ^ denotes by-election

Election results

2024 by-election

Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly by-election, 2024: Katehari^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Dharmraj Nishad	104,091	45.57	New
	SP	Shobhawati Verma	69,577	30.46	7.32
	BSP	Amit Verma	41,647	18.23	5.39
	ASP(KR)	Rajesh Kumar	5,152	2.26	1.87
	Independent	Govind Kumar	1,650	0.72	New
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,530	0.67	0.07
Majority			34,514	15.11	12
Turnout			2,28,434
	BJP gain from SP		Swing

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Katehari^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Lalji Verma	93,524	37.78
	NISHAD	Avadhesh Kumar	85,828	34.67
	BSP	Prateek Pandey	58,482	23.62
	INC	Nishat Fatima	2,049	0.83
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,492	0.6
Majority			7,696	3.11
Turnout			2,47,560
	SP gain from BSP		Swing

2017

Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Lal ji Verma won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Awadhesh Kumar Dwiwedi by a margin of 6,287 votes.^[5][6]