Salempur City is a Tehsil Headquarters (founded in 1939), 71 Parliamentary Constituency which covers Vidhan Sabha of Salempur and Bhatpar Rani in Deoria district and Belthara Road, Sikanderpur and Bansdih of Ballia District.

It is a Nagar Panchayat in Deoria district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

But later it separated into three new Tehsils- Barhaj, Rudrapur and Bhatpar Rani one by one.

To facilitate the administration, Salempur Tehsil is further divided into four towns and 522 villages.

As of the 2011 Census of India,[1] Salempur Tehsil of Deoria district has total population of 604,483.