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{{Short description|Constituency of the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly in India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=April 2019}}
{{Infobox Indian constituency
| name = Katehari
| map_image = 277-Katehari.svg
| mla = [[Dharmraj Nishad]]
| party = {{Party index link|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
| alliance = [[National Democratic Alliance|NDA]]
| latest_election_year = [[2024 elections in India#Uttar Pradesh|2024]]
| preceded_by = [[Lalji Verma]]
| state = [[Uttar Pradesh]]
| district = [[Ambedkar Nagar district|Ambedkar Nagar]]
| reservation = None
| incumbent_image = BJP election symbol.png
| type = SLA
| loksabha_cons = [[Ambedkar Nagar Lok Sabha constituency|Ambedkar Nagar]]
| electors = 3,94,267
| constituency_no = 277
}}

'''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]].<ref name=delimitation2008>{{cite web |url=https://upload.indiacode.nic.in/showfile?actid=AC_CEN_3_20_00030_200233_1517807324510&type=order&filename=Delimitation%20Order,2008.pdf |title=Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008 |date=26 November 2008 |access-date= 24 June 2021}}</ref>

==Members of the Legislative Assembly==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Year!!Member<ref name="election2018">{{Cite web |title=Katehari Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs |url=https://www.elections.in/uttar-pradesh/assembly-constituencies/katehari.html |access-date= |website=Elections in India}}</ref>
! colspan="2" |Party
|-
|[[1957 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1957]]
|Loknath Singh
| style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|-
|[[1962 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1962]]
|Raghunath Singh
| style="background-color: {{party color|Socialist Party (India)}}" |
|[[Socialist Party (India, 1948)|Socialist Party]]
|-
|[[1967 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1967]]
|Ramnarayan Tripathi
| rowspan="3" style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
| rowspan="3" |[[Indian National Congress]]
|-
|[[1969 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1969]]
| rowspan="2" |Bhagwati Prasad Shukla
|-
|[[1974 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1974]]
|-
|[[1977 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1977]]
|Ravindra Nath Tewari
| style="background-color: {{party color|Janata Party}}" |
|[[Janata Party]]
|-
|[[1980 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1980]]
|Jiya Ram Shukla
| style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress (I)}}" |
|[[Indian National Congress (I)]]
|-
|[[1985 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1985]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Ravindranath Tewari]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Janata Party}}" |
|[[Janata Party]]
|-
|[[1989 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1989]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Janata Dal}}" |
|[[Janata Dal]]
|-
| [[1991 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1991]]
|Anil Kumar Tewari
| style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|-
| [[1993 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1993]]
|Ram Dev Verma
| rowspan="4" style="background-color: {{party color|Bahujan Samaj Party}}" |
| rowspan="4" |[[Bahujan Samaj Party]]
|-
|[[1996 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1996]]
| rowspan="3" |[[Dharamraj Nishad]]
|-
| [[2002 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2002]]
|-
| [[2007 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2007]]
|-
| [[2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2012]]
|[[Shankhlal Majhi]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Samajwadi Party}}" |
|[[Samajwadi Party]]
|-
| [[2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2017]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Lalji Verma]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Bahujan Samaj Party}}" |
|[[Bahujan Samaj Party]]
|-
|[[2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2022]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Samajwadi Party}}" |
|[[Samajwadi Party]]
|-
|[[2024 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly by-elections|2024]]^
|[[Dharmraj Nishad]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|}

^ denotes by-election

==Election results==
{{Pie chart
| caption = [[Bahujan Samaj Party]] is the most successful political party in [[Katehari (Assembly constituency)|Katehari]] Assembly elections.
| value1 = 27.78
| label1 = [[Bahujan Samaj Party|'''BSP''']] (5 terms)
| color1 = {{party color|Bahujan Samaj Party}}
| value2 = 22.22
| label2 = [[Indian National Congress|'''INC''']] (4 terms)
| color2 = {{party color|Indian National Congress}}
| value3 = 11.11
| label3 = [[Bharatiya Janata Party|'''BJP''']] (2 terms)
| color3 = {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
| value4 = 11.11
| label4 = [[Samajwadi Party|'''SP''']] (2 terms)
| color4 = {{party color|Samajwadi Party}}
| value5 = 11.11
| label5 = [[Janata Party|'''JP''']] (2 terms)
| color5 = blue
| value6 = 5.56
| label6 = [[Indian National Congress (I)|'''INC (I)''']] (1 term)
| color6 = #0ef4e1
| value7 = 5.56
| label7 = [[Janata Dal|'''JD''']] (1 term)
| color7 = #00FF00
| value8 = 5.56
| label8 = [[Socialist Party|''' Socialist Party''']] (1 term)
| color8 = #006400
}}

===2024 bypoll===
{{Election box begin||title=[[2024 elections in India#Uttar Pradesh|Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly by-election, 2024]]: Katehari<ref name="Katehari By election Result 2024">{{cite news |title=Katehari By election Result 2024 |url=https://results.eci.gov.in/ResultAcByeNov2024/candidateswise-S24277.htm |accessdate=23 August 2025 |publisher=Election Commission of India |date=23 November 2024 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20250823115511/https://results.eci.gov.in/ResultAcByeNov2024/candidateswise-S24277.htm |archivedate=23 August 2025}}</ref>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|candidate = [[Dharmraj Nishad]]
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|votes = 1,04,091
|percentage = 45.57
|change = ''New''
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Shobhawati Verma
|party = Samajwadi Party
|votes = 69,577
|percentage = 30.46
|change = {{decrease}}7.32
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Amit Verma
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|votes = 41,647
|percentage = 18.23
|change = {{decrease}}5.39
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Rajesh Kumar
|party = Aazad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram)
|votes = 5,152
|percentage = 2.26
|change = {{increase}}1.87
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Govind Kumar
|party = Independent
|votes = 1,650
|percentage = 0.72
|change = ''New''
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = [[None of the Above]]
|party = None of the above (India)
|votes = 1,530
|percentage = 0.67
|change = {{increase}}0.07
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 34,514
|percentage = 15.11
|change = {{increase}}12
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 2,28,434
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box gain with party link|
|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party
|loser = Samajwadi Party
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

=== 2022 ===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]]: Katehari<ref name="election2022">{{cite web |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/14185-uttar-pradesh-general-legislative-election-2022/ |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] |title=State Election, 2022 to the Legislative Assembly Of Uttar Pradesh |website=eci.gov.in |accessdate=4 March 2023}}</ref>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = Samajwadi Party
|candidate = [[Lalji Verma]]
|votes = {{formatnum:93524}}
|percentage = 37.78
|change = +18.36
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = NISHAD Party
|candidate = Avadhesh Kumar
|votes = {{formatnum:85828}}
|percentage = 34.67
|change = +26.68
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Prateek Pandey
|votes = {{formatnum:58482}}
|percentage = 23.62
|change = -12.37
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = [[None of the above (India)|None of the above]]
|votes = {{formatnum:1492}}
|percentage = 0.6
|change = -0.36
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = {{formatnum:7696}}
|percentage = 3.11
|change = +0.43
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = {{formatnum:247560}}
|percentage = 62.79
|change = -0.54
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|
|winner = Samajwadi Party
|loser = Bahujan Samaj Party
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

=== 2017 ===
[[Bahujan Samaj Party]] candidate '''Lal ji Verma''' won in last Assembly election of [[2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections]] defeating [[Bharatiya Janta Party]] candidate '''Awadhesh Kumar Dwiwedi''' by a margin of 6,287 votes.<ref name="election2017">{{Cite web|url=http://www.elections.in/uttar-pradesh/assembly-constituencies/katehari.html|title=Assembly result 2017|website=Elections.in|access-date=2017-08-25}}</ref><ref name="election2012">{{cite web |title=State Election, 2012 to the Legislative Assembly Of Uttar Pradesh |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/3262-uttar-pradesh-2012/ |accessdate=20 April 2023 |website=eci.gov.in |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]]}}</ref>
{{Election box begin|title = [[2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election]]: Katehar<ref name="election2017"/>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Lal Ji Verma
|votes = {{formatnum:84358}}
|percentage = 35.99
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Awdhesh Kumar Dwivedi
|votes = {{formatnum:78071}}
|percentage = 33.31
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Samajwadi Party
|candidate = Jaishankar Pandey
|votes = {{formatnum:45532}}
|percentage = 19.42
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = NISHAD Party
|candidate = Ajay Pratap Singh
|votes = {{formatnum:18721}}
|percentage = 7.99
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = [[None of the above (India)|None of the above]]
|votes = {{formatnum:2235}}
|percentage = 0.96
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = {{formatnum:6287}}
|percentage = 2.68
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = {{formatnum:234407}}
|percentage = 63.33
|change =
}}
{{Election box end}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{cite web |title=Results of Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/category/92-uttar-pradesh/ |website=eci.gov.in |publisher=Election Commission of India |access-date=15 March 2022}}

{{Assembly constituencies of Uttar Pradesh}}
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[[Category:Assembly constituencies of Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Ambedkar Nagar district]]
[[Category:Politics of Uttar Pradesh]]

Katehari Assembly constituency - Revision history

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