Kishore Upadhyaya


Kishore Upadhyaya is an Indian politician and Member of the Legislative Assembly representing Tehri in the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He has been elected three times to represent Tehri, in 2002, 2007 and 2022. In 2012 Assembly election, he lost to Dinesh Dhanai an Independent candidate by 377 votes. He served as the Minister of state for Industrial Development under N. D. Tiwari ministry from 2002 to 2004.
Kishore Upadhyaya was the President of Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee from 2014 to 2017, taking over from Yashpal Arya.

Elections contested

YearConstituencyResultVote percentageOpposition CandidateOpposition PartyOpposition vote percentage
2002TehriWon41.95%Ratan Singh GunsolaBJP31.41%
2007TehriWon35.31%Khem Singh ChauhanBJP28.14%
2012Tehri28.83%Dinesh DhanaiIND29.77%
2017Sahaspur23.30%Sahdev Singh PundirBJP40.75%
2022TehriWon42.31%Dinesh DhanaiUJP40.28%