The Constitution of india has vested in the State Election Commission of the respective
State the superintendence, direction and control of the entire process for conduct
of elections to the Panchayats and Municipal bodies. This State has a tradition
of holdind elections to the Local bodies regularly in accordance with the provision
of the respective Sate Acts and Rules made thereunder.There are, at present, 755
Zilla Parishad constituencis spread over 17 Zilla Parishads and 1 Mahakuma Parishad,
8864 Panchayat Samity constituencis in 341 Panchayat Samities and 36016 Gram Panchayat
Constituencies in 3354 Gram Panchayats. There are 6 Municipal Corporations
and 121 Municipalities in West Bengal having a total number of 1806 Constituencies
/ Wards.