| Kaptanganj | |
| Mla: | Kavindra Chaudhary |
| Party: | Samajwadi Party |
| Latest Election Year: | 2022 |
| State: | Uttar Pradesh |
| District: | Basti |
| Reservation: | None |
| Type: | SLA |
| Electors: | 3,65,410 |
| Constituency No: | 308 |
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.
| Scope=col | scope=col | Term | scope=col | Member of Legislative Assembly | scope=col | Party | scope=col | From | scope=col | To | scope=col | Days | scope=col | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Ram Lakhan | March 1974 | April 1977 | 1,153 | [4] | ||||||||||
| 02 | Om Prakash Alias Milan Singh | June 1977 | February 1980 | 969 | |||||||||||
| 03 | Ambika Singh | June 1980 | March 1985 | 1,735 | |||||||||||
| 04 | March 1985 | November 1989 | 1,725 | ||||||||||||
| 05 | Krishan Kinkar Singh Rana | December 1989 | April 1991 | 488 | |||||||||||
| 06 | June 1991 | December 1992 | 533 | ||||||||||||
| 07 | 12th Vidhan Sabha | Ram Prasad Chaudhary | Samajwadi Party | December 1993 | October 1995 | 693 | |||||||||
| 08 | October 1996 | March 2002 | 1,967 | ||||||||||||
| 09 | February 2002 | May 2007 | 1,902 | ||||||||||||
| 10 | May 2007 | March 2012 | 1,762 | ||||||||||||
| 11 | March 2012 | March 2017 | 1,829 | ||||||||||||
| 12 | March 2017 | March 2022 | - | ||||||||||||
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.[5]