| 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.
| 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 | ||
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]