Dhupguri is a Scheduled Caste (SC)-reserved Assembly constituency in Jalpaiguri district, combining SC-dominant agrarian villages, mixed rural plains, tea garden labour settlements, municipal wards, and forest-adjacent belts. Electoral behaviour is shaped by SC consolidation depth, agrarian income stability, plantation wage dynamics, and municipal turnout elasticity. Psephologically, Dhupguri functions as a structured agrarian–semi-urban seat with moderate volatility influenced by mobilisation symmetry and urban compression.