Harsidhi Assembly constituency

Harsidhi is an assembly constituency in East Champaran district in the Indian state of Bihar. It is reserved for scheduled castes.

Harsidhi
Constituency No. 13 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	East Champaran
Lok Sabha constituency	Purvi Champaran
Established	1951
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Krishnanandan Paswan
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2020
Preceded by	Rajendra Kumar Ram

Overview

As per orders of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, 13. Harsidhi Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the following: Harsidhi and Turkaulia community development blocks.^[1]

Harsidhi Assembly constituency is part of 3. Purvi Champaran (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1] It was formerly part of Motihari (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name[2]	Party
1952	Haribansh Sahai		Indian National Congress
1957	Parabati Devi
1962	Nageshwar Dutt Pathak
1967	S. M. Abdulla		Communist Party of India
1969	Nageshwar Dutt Pathak		Indian National Congress
1972	Mohammad Hidaytullah Khan		Indian National Congress
1977	Yagul Kishore Prasad Singh		Janata Party
1980	Mohammad Hidaytullah Khan		Indian National Congress
1985
1990
1995	Awadhesh Prasad Kushwaha		Janata Dal
2000	Maheshwar Singh		Samata Party
2005	Awadhesh Prasad Kushwaha		Lok Janshakti Party
2005	Maheshwar Singh
2010	Krishnanandan Paswan		Bharatiya Janata Party
2015	Rajendra Kumar Ram		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020	Krishnanandan Paswan		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2025

2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Harsidhi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP
	RJD
	JSP
	NOTA	None of the Above
Majority
Turnout
			Swing

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Harsidhi^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Krishnanandan Paswan	84,615	49.71	+6.64
	RJD	Nagendra Kumar	68,930	40.5	−9.37
	RLSP	Ramesh Kumar	10,523	6.18
	Independent	Dinesh Kumar Chaudhary	1,674	0.98
	NOTA	None of the above	2,938	1.73	−0.35
Majority			15,685	9.21	+2.41
Turnout			170,205	63.53	−0.68
	BJP gain from RJD		Swing	BJP

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Harsidhi^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Rajendra Kumar Ram	75,203	49.87
	BJP	Krishnanandan Paswan	64,936	43.07
	CPI	Vidya Sagar Arya	2,867	1.9
	Independent	Avdhesh Ram	2,138	1.42
	NOTA	None of the above	3,133	2.08
Majority			10,267	6.8
Turnout			150,784	64.21
	RJD gain from BJP		Swing

2010

2010 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Harsidhi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Krishnandan Paswan	48,130	46.87
	RJD	Surendra Kumar	30,066	29.28
	INC	Vijay Kumar Ram	6,202	6.04
	Independent	Suresh Kumar	3,353	3.27
Majority			18,064	17.59
Turnout			1,02,692	54.89
	BJP gain from LJP		Swing