Seat record · Vidhan Sabha

Kaptanganj

Assembly constituency 308 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022

Held by

Kavindra Chaudhary · 2022

Contests

2002–2022

Parties that won

Across all 5 contests

Median margin

5.9pp

Over all 5 contests

Margin 2022

24,179votes

11.3 pp of votes polled

Turnout 2022

58.4%

Seat median 57.6% over 5 contests

[01]Winners and margins

Oldest first · bars scaled to the widest margin, 11.3 pp

2002
3.4 pp
Ambesh KumariSamajwadi Partyby 3,658 votes
2007
5.9 pp
Anil Kumar AhirwarBahujan Samaj Partyby 6,944 votes
2012
5.9 pp
Ram Prasad ChaudharyBahujan Samaj Partyby 11,070 votes
2017
3.4 pp
Chandra Prakash Alias Ca Chandra Prakash ShuklBharatiya Janata Partyby 6,827 votes
2022
11.3 pp
Kavindra ChaudharySamajwadi Partyby 24,179 votes

[02]Parties on this seat

Top 8 by wins · 23 parties and independents

BSP 2 of 540% won · 1 second SP 2 of 450% won · 2 second BJP 1 of 520% won · 2 second IND 0 of 160% won INC 0 of 50% won ASP 0 of 20% won BMP 0 of 20% won RLD 0 of 20% won

Won of candidatures, counted from the published candidate lines; independents are counted together.

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

BSP and SP won 2 each of 5 contests on record.
wins by party: BSP 2 · SP 2 · BJP 1
The seat changed party 3 times in 4 successive pairs of contests.
2002 SP → 2007 BSP → 2012 BSP → 2017 BJP → 2022 SP
The closest contest was 2017 at 3.4 pp; the widest 2022 at 11.3 pp.
min / max of margin % over 5 contests
The 2022 margin of 11.3 pp was 5.4 pp above the seat's median of 5.9 pp.
11.3 − 5.9 = +5.4
Turnout moved from 51.3% in 2002 to 58.4% in 2022, +7.1 pp.
58.4 − 51.3 = +7.1

Each line is arithmetic over the contests on this page.

[04]Turnout by year

White mark: seat median, 57.6%

2002 51.3%

2007 50.7%

2012 59.7%

2017 57.6%

2022 58.4%

[05]Every contest

5 rows · most recent first

Every Vidhan Sabha contest on record for Kaptanganj, Uttar Pradesh
Year	Winner	Party	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
2022	Kavindra Chaudhary	Samajwadi Party	24,179	11.3	58.4
2017	Chandra Prakash Alias Ca Chandra Prakash Shukl	Bharatiya Janata Party	6,827	3.4	57.6
2012	Ram Prasad Chaudhary	Bahujan Samaj Party	11,070	5.9	59.7
2007	Anil Kumar Ahirwar	Bahujan Samaj Party	6,944	5.9	50.7
2002	Ambesh Kumari	Samajwadi Party	3,658	3.4	51.3

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 24,179 votes

ContestsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Vidhan Sabha · Kaptanganj, Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Party recordCounted from the published candidate lines for this seat · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Medians and countsComputed from the contests on this page when the page was built