Kotdwar is one of the Assembly constituencies of the Pauri Garhwal district in Uttarakhand. There were a total of 1,03,545 voters in the Kotdwar 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, the expelled BJP leader and former Uttarakhand minister Harak Singh Rawat had won the seat. The BJP this time has fielded Ritu Khanduri Bhushan, the daughter of Uttarakhand's ex-CM and senior BJP leader BC Khanduri, from the prestigious seat. The Kotdwar 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 Garhwal Lok Sabha constituency, which is represented by former Uttarakhand CM Tirath Singh Rawat.