Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is a municipal government organization or an Urban Local Body (ULB) that is responsible for the administration of the Bengaluru Metropolitan (or Greater Bengaluru) region. Bangalore Mahanagara Palike was established in the year 1949 by merging two municipalities, ‘The City Area’ and ‘The Cantonment Area’, and administered the city of Bangalore with a population of 750,000 (7.5 lakhs). The jurisdiction kept increasing over the years to reach 100 wards in 1995. It was again increased in the year 2007 by including 7 City Municipal Councils (Rajarajeshwari, Dasarahalli, Bommanahalli, Krishnarajapuram, Mahadevapura, Byatarayanapura and Yelahanka), 1 Town Municipal Council (Kengeri) and 110 villages to form the BBMP on 16th January 2007.

The BBMP serves an approximate area of 800 sq. kms, an approximate population of 7.8 million (78 lakhs) and was comprised of 147 wards (or city localities). That ward notification was allowed to lapse and the number of wards has been increased to 198 with an allowance to increase the number of wards to a maximum of 200. Each ward has 30,000 to 40,000 voters.