Falakata is a Scheduled Tribe (ST)-reserved Assembly constituency in Alipurduar district, characterised by tribal-majority agrarian villages, mixed rural plains, tea garden labour settlements, and riverine flood-prone belts. Electoral behaviour is shaped by tribal consolidation depth, agrarian income stability, plantation wage dynamics, and turnout elasticity in dispersed rural clusters. Psephologically, Falakata functions as a tribal–agrarian seat with moderate volatility influenced by mobilisation symmetry across interior and plantation zones.