Kaptanganj is a constituency of the
Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
The Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly (Hindi: ''Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha'') is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of Uttar Pradesh. There are 403 seats in the house filled by direct election using a single-member first-past-the-p ...
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
Election results
2022
2017
This seat belonged to
Bharatiya Janta Party
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi ...
candidate
Chandra Prakash Shukla
Chandra Prakash Shukla (born 5 July 1968) is an Indian politician and a member of 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh of India. He represents the Kaptanganj constituency of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Ea ...
who won in last Assembly election of
2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating
Bahujan Samaj Party
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is a national level political party in India that was formed to represent Bahujans (literally means "community in majority"), referring to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes (OBC), alon ...
candidate
Ram Prasad Chaudhary
Ram Prasad Chaudhary (born 15 November 1954) is an Indian politician and a member of the 9th Lok Sabha, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. He represents the Kaptanganj constituency of Uttar Pradesh and is a ...
by a margin of 6,827 votes.
16th Vidhan Sabha: 2012 General Elections
References
External links
* https://www.expressmorning.online/2021/07/kaptanganj.html
External links
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Assembly constituencies of Uttar Pradesh
Basti district
Politics of Uttar Pradesh