It corresponded approximately to the combined regions of the present-day Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

In the elections held in 1937, the Indian National Congress won the majority seats, but declined to form a government.

Therefore, on 1 April 1937, and the Nawab of Chhatari, the leader of the National Agriculturist Parties, was invited to form a minority provisional government.

Therefore, the Governor Sir Harry Graham Haig invited Govind Ballabh Pant to form the government.

The Congress won a majority in the 1946 elections in the United Provinces and Pant was again the Premier, continuing even after India's independence in 1947.