Jalpaiguri is a general Assembly constituency in Jalpaiguri district, centred on a dense municipal core with expanding peri-urban corridors, agrarian outskirts, tea garden labour clusters, and river-adjacent belts. Electoral behaviour is shaped by urban governance perception, middle-class compression, peri-urban infrastructure sensitivity, agrarian mobilisation depth, and turnout elasticity in peripheral zones. Psephologically, Jalpaiguri functions as a competitive urban–semi-urban seat where municipal turnout intensity significantly influences margin dynamics