Alipurduars is a general Assembly constituency in Alipurduar district, combining municipal wards, tribal-dense rural belts, tea garden labour settlements, forest-fringe zones, and border-adjacent tracts. Electoral behaviour is shaped by urban governance perception, tribal mobilisation depth, plantation wage dynamics, and turnout elasticity in peripheral rural clusters. Psephologically, Alipurduars functions as a competitive urban–tribal hybrid seat with moderate volatility influenced by municipal compression and rural consolidation symmetry