Dinhata is a general (non-reserved) border-adjacent rural–semi-urban Assembly constituency in Cooch Behar district, combining municipal town wards, minority-dense rural belts, mixed agrarian gram panchayats, and riverine zones. Electoral outcomes are shaped by minority alignment depth, agrarian welfare mobilisation, urban governance perception, and border-sensitive turnout elasticity. Psephologically, it functions as a competitive hybrid seat with medium–high volatility driven by participation symmetry. Across the 2019 Lok Sabha, 2021 Vidhan Sabha, and 2024 Lok Sabha elections, voting behaviour demonstrates structured rural mobilisation with recurring volatility in urban and border-adjacent areas.