Chandannagar is a heritage-centric, riverine urban Vidhan Sabha constituency in Hooghly district, shaped by its former French colonial legacy, dense middle-class neighbourhoods, trade clusters, and expanding municipal wards. Electoral outcomes are influenced primarily by civic governance performance, middle-class participation discipline, and peripheral ward turnout variation. Psephologically, it functions as a governance-evaluative urban seat with medium volatility driven by structured participation asymmetry. Across the 2019 Lok Sabha, 2021 Vidhan Sabha, and 2024 Lok Sabha elections, vote patterns demonstrate structural continuity, with margins shaped more by turnout alignment than by large-scale ideological shifts.