Kaptanganj is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Kaptanganj in the Basti district of Uttar Pradesh, India.
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 YearMemberParty1974Ram LakhanIndian National Congress1977Milan SinghJanata Party1980Ambika SinghIndian National Congress (I)1985Indian National Congress1989Krishan Kinkar SinghIndependent19911993Ram Prasad ChaudharySamajwadi Party1996Bahujan Samaj Party2002Bharatiya Janata Party2007Bahujan Samaj Party20122017Chandra Prakash ShuklaBharatiya Janata Party2022Kavindra ChaudharySamajwadi Party
Election results 2027
2022
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.
2012
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External links https://www.expressmorning.online/2021/07/kaptanganj.html
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