Kaptanganj Assembly constituency

Kaptanganj is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Kaptanganj in the Basti district of Uttar Pradesh, India.^[1][2][3]

Kaptanganj
Constituency No. 308 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Basti
Total electors	3,65,410
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Kavindra Chaudhary
Party	Samajwadi Party
Elected year	2022

Kaptanganj is one of five assembly constituencies in the Basti Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 308 amongst 403 constituencies.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[4]	Party
1974	Ram Lakhan		Indian National Congress
1977	Milan Singh		Janata Party
1980	Ambika Singh		Indian National Congress (I)
1985			Indian National Congress
1989	Krishan Kinkar Singh		Independent
1991
1993	Ram Prasad Chaudhary		Samajwadi Party
1996			Bahujan Samaj Party
2002			Bharatiya Janata Party
2007			Bahujan Samaj Party
2012
2017	Chandra Prakash Shukla		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022	Kavindra Chaudhary		Samajwadi Party

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Kaptanganj

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AAP	Sanjay Kumar Chaudhery [5]

2017

This seat belonged to Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Chandra Prakash Shukla who won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Ram Prasad Chaudhary by a margin of 6,827 votes.^[6]

2017 General Elections: Kaptanganj^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Chandra Prakash Shukla	70,527	35.40	32.33
	BSP	Ram Prasad Chaudhary	63,700	31.97	4.08
	INC	Krishna Kinkar Singh Rana	60,142	30.19	5.25
	None of the Above	None of the Above	1,898	0.95	0.95
		Remainder 5 candidates	4,857	2.41
Majority			6,827	3.39	2.53
Turnout			2,01,124	58.17	1.49
	BJP gain from BSP		Swing	0.69

16th Vidhan Sabha: 2012 General Elections

2012 General Elections: Kaptanganj^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BSP	Ram Prasad Chaudhary	67,416	36.05	−
	SP	Trayambak Nath	56,346	30.13	−
	INC	Krishna Kinkar Singh Rana	46,636	24.94	−
	BJP	Ganesh Narayan Mishra	5,741	3.07
		Remainder 11 candidates	10,853	5.80	−
Majority			11,070	5.92
Turnout			1,86,992	59.66
	BSP hold		Swing