Tamkuhi Raj is one of the seven Assembly seats of the Kushinagar district in Uttar Pradesh. The Tamkuhi Assembly seat falls under the Deoria Lok Sabha constituency. It is one of the Assembly constituencies from where Congress candidates managed to win in the 2017 Assembly polls. Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) chief Ajay Kumar Lallu had won the seat in 2017. The Tamkuhi Raj Assembly constituency is a general seat, i.e. it is not reserved for SCs or STs. The voting is scheduled in the sixth phase i.e. on March 3, 2022.