In the Harsidhi (SC) Lok Sabha constituency, Bharatiya Janata Party’s Krishnanandan Paswan won the 2020 election by a margin of 15,685 votes.

Rashtriya Janata Dal’s (RJD) Rajendra Kumar, who defeated Paswan by a margin of 10,267 votes in 2015, is the sitting MLA.

Paswan won the 2010 election and was
preceded by the Lok Janshakti Party’s (LJP) Awadhesh Prasad Kushwaha and Maheshwar
Singh, who won the February and October 2005 elections respectively. Singh had
previously won the seat in the 2000 assembly election for the Samata
Party. 

The Harsidhi constituency is reserved for
Scheduled Caste (SC) candidates.

As per orders of
Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, the
constituency is composed of the Harsidhi and Turkaulia community development
blocks.

Harsidhi Vidhan
Sabha constituency is part of Purvi Champaran Lok Sabha constituency. It was
earlier part of Motihari Lok Sabha constituency.

Here are a few
details about the  constituency seat:

Name of the assembly constituency,
district: Harsidhi, Purvi Champaran

Lok Sabha constituency: Purvi
Champaran

Polling date: November 3

2020 Winner: Krishnandan Paswan (BJP)

2020 Runner up: Kumar Nagendra Ram Bihari (RJD)

Winning margin in 2020: 15,685

2020 candidates: Kumar Nagendra Ram Bihari (RJD), Krishnandan Paswan (BJP)

Top candidates in 2015: Rajendra Kumar (RJD), Krishnandan Paswan (BJP), Vidya Sagar Arya (CPI)  

Sitting MLA, party: Rajendra
Kumar (RJD)

Winning margin in 2015: 10,267
(6.8% of total valid votes)

Runner up name, party: Krishnandan
Paswan (BJP)

Number of voters in 2015: 1,50,980

Voter turnout in 2015: 64%

Number of women voters in 2015: 73,077

Number of polling stations in 2015: 218