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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 holding elections to the Local Bodies regularly in accordance with the provisions
of the respective State Acts and Rules made thereunder.There are, at present, 825
Zilla Parishad constituencis spread over 20 Zilla Parishads and 1 Mahakuma Parishad,
9240 Panchayat Samiti constituencis in 341 Panchayat Samitis and 48751 Gram Panchayat
Constituencies in 3354 Gram Panchayats. There are 7 Municipal Corporations
and 119 Municipalities in West Bengal