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Kaptanganj Assembly constituency

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Kaptanganj
Constituency No. 308 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
File:308-Kaptanganj.svg
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionNorth India
StateUttar Pradesh
DistrictBasti
Total electors3,65,410
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartySamajwadi Party
Elected year2022

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 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

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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

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2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Kaptanganj[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SP Kavindra Chaudhary 94,273 43.66
BJP Chandra Prakash Shukla 70,094 32.46 Decrease2.61
BSP Zaheer Ahmad 40,381 18.7 Decrease12.97
INC Ambika Singh 3,527 1.63 Decrease28.27
NOTA None of the above 1,221 0.57 Decrease0.38
Majority 24,179 11.2 Increase7.8
Turnout 215,925 59.09 Increase0.92
SP gain from BJP Swing


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[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Chandra Prakash Shukla 70,527 35.07
BSP Ram Prasad Chaudhary 63,700 31.67
INC Krishna Kinkar Singh Rana 60,142 29.9
NOTA None of the above 1,898 0.95
Majority 6,827 3.4
Turnout 201,124 58.17
BJP gain from BSP Swing Decrease0.69


2012 General Elections: Kaptanganj[7]
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


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