Korha Assembly constituency

Korha is an assembly constituency in Katihar district in the Indian state of Bihar. It is reserved for scheduled castes.

Korha
Constituency No. 69 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Katihar
Established	1967
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Kavita Devi
Party	BJP
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2025

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No 69. Korha Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the following: Korha and Falka community development blocks.^[1]

Korha Assembly constituency is part of No 12 Purnia (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name[2]	Party
1967	Bhola Paswan Shastri		Indian National Congress
1969			Lok Tantrik Congress
1972			Indian National Congress
1977	Sita Ram Das		Janata Party
1980	Vishwanath Rishi		Indian National Congress (I)
1985			Indian National Congress
1990	Sita Ram Das		Janata Dal
1995
2000	Mahesh Paswan		Bharatiya Janata Party
2005	Sunita Devi		Indian National Congress
2005
2010	Mahesh Paswan		Bharatiya Janata Party
2015	Punam Paswan		Indian National Congress
2020	Kavita Devi		Bharatiya Janata Party
2025

Election results

2025

2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Korha

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Kavita Devi	123,495	51.82
	INC	Punam Paswan	101,238	42.48
	JSP	Nirmal Kumar Raj	4,028	1.69
	NOTA	None of the above	3,162	1.33
Majority			22,257
Turnout			238,305
	BJP hold		Swing

2020

Source:^[3]

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Korha^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Kavita Devi	104,625	53.31	+10.93
	INC	Punam Paswan	75,682	38.56	−6.97
	JAP(L)	Wakil Das	3,654	1.86	+1.06
	RLSP	Lalit Kumar	2,151	1.1
	NOTA	None of the above	3,764	1.92	−0.3
Majority			28,943	14.75	+11.6
Turnout			196,260	67.39	−2.27
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Korha^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Punam Kumari Alias Punam Paswan	78,409	45.53
	BJP	Mahesh Paswan	72,983	42.38
	CPI(M)	Jay Prakash Rishi	3,719	2.16
	Independent	Lalit Kumar	3,199	1.86
	NCP	Sunita Devi	2,097	1.22
	BSP	Ravindra Kumar	1,621	0.94
	NOTA	None of the above	3,823	2.22
Majority			5,426	3.15
Turnout			172,222	69.66