Kapilvastu (Assembly constituency)

Kapilvastu is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Kapilvastu in the Siddharth Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Kapilvastu
कपिलवस्तु
Constituency
for the Vidhan Sabha
District Siddharth Nagar
State Uttar Pradesh
Current constituency
Created 2017
Party Bharatiya Janta Party
MLA Shyam Dhani
Reservation Schedule Caste

Kapilvastu is one of five assembly constituencies in the Domariyaganj (Lok Sabha constituency). Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 303 amongst 403 constituencies.

Currently this seat belongs to Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Shyam Dhani who won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Vijay Kumar by a margin of 38,154 votes.[1]

References

  1. "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 2017-08-25.

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