Maynaguri is a Scheduled Caste (SC)-reserved Assembly constituency in Jalpaiguri district, characterised by SC-majority agrarian villages, mixed rural plains, tea garden labour settlements, and riverine flood-prone belts. Electoral behaviour is shaped by SC consolidation depth, agricultural income stability, plantation wage dynamics, and turnout elasticity in embankment-sensitive zones. Psephologically, Maynaguri functions as a structured agrarian seat with moderate volatility influenced by mobilisation symmetry across rural and river-adjacent clusters.