West Bengal has 23 districts, 3,339 gram panchayats and 41,005 villages in the Local Government Directory as on 25 September 2026.
Pick a district to see its block panchayats, gram panchayats and villages.
| District | Blocks | Gram panchayats | Villages | Towns (ULBs) | Assembly seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alipurduar | 6 | 64 | 359 | 2 | 3 |
| Bankura | 22 | 190 | 3,832 | 3 | 10 |
| Birbhum | 19 | 167 | 2,469 | 6 | 9 |
| Cooch Behar | 12 | 128 | 1,211 | 6 | 7 |
| Dakshin Dinajpur | 8 | 64 | 1,640 | 3 | 5 |
| Darjeeling | 9 | 92 | 583 | 4 | 1 |
| Hooghly | 18 | 207 | 1,930 | 13 | 15 |
| Howrah | 14 | 157 | 786 | 3 | 12 |
| Jalpaiguri | 9 | 80 | 423 | 4 | 6 |
| Jhargram | 8 | 79 | 2,996 | — | 3 |
| Kalimpong | 4 | 42 | 128 | 1 | — |
| Kolkata | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Malda | 15 | 146 | 1,798 | 2 | 11 |
| Murshidabad | 26 | 250 | 2,231 | 8 | 19 |
| Nadia | 18 | 185 | 1,368 | 11 | 17 |
| North 24 Parganas | 22 | 199 | 1,609 | 26 | 20 |
| Paschim Bardhaman | 8 | 62 | 402 | 2 | 5 |
| Paschim Medinipur | 21 | 211 | 5,709 | 8 | 11 |
| Purba Bardhaman | 23 | 215 | 2,185 | 6 | 15 |
| Purba Medinipur | 25 | 223 | 3,014 | 5 | 10 |
| Purulia | 20 | 170 | 2,696 | 3 | 7 |
| South 24 Parganas | 29 | 310 | 2,140 | 8 | 21 |
| Uttar Dinajpur | 9 | 98 | 1,496 | 4 | 6 |
Blocks are community development blocks. Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland have no panchayats under Part IX of the Constitution; villages there fall under traditional or autonomous councils, so the panchayat count is zero. Towns come from our urban local body directory, also built from LGD.
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What the numbers mean and where they come from.
How many gram panchayats are there in West Bengal?
The Local Government Directory lists 3,339 gram panchayats in West Bengal, across 23 districts, as on 25 September 2026.
How many villages are there in West Bengal?
LGD lists 41,005 villages in West Bengal. The district with the most villages is Paschim Medinipur.
What is the middle tier of panchayats called in West Bengal?
LGD calls it Panchayat Samiti. West Bengal has 345 of them. They usually match the community development blocks.
Source: Local Government Directory (lgdirectory.gov.in), Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of India, read from the daily open mirror github.com/ramSeraph/opendata. Data as on 25 September 2026. Licence: Government Open Data License - India.
Each page below is built from an official source and credited on the page.
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