Pithoragarh is one of the Assembly constituencies of the Pithoragarh district in Uttarakhand. There were a total of 1,07,371 voters in the Pithoragarh constituency during the 2017 Assembly elections. This year, the voting is scheduled to be held in a single phase in Uttarakhand i.e. on February 14, 2022. In 2017, Bharatiya Janata Party’s Prakash Pant had won the seat. However, in 2019 when Prakash Pant passed away after a prolonged illness, Chandra Pant, wife of Prakash Pant fought and won the  Pithoragarh Assembly by-polls. The BJP this time has fielded her from the Pithoragarh constituency. The Pithoragarh Assembly constituency is a general seat, i.e. it is not reserved for Scheduled Castes (SCs) or Scheduled Tribes (STs). Also, this Assembly seat falls under the Almora Lok Sabha constituency, which is represented by BJP's Ajay Tamta.