Cooch Behar district is divided into the following administrative subdivisions:[1][2] Cooch Behar Sadar subdivision has 1 police station, 2 community development blocks, 2 panchayat samitis, 28 gram panchayats, 259 mouzas, 253 inhabited villages, 1 municipality and 8 census towns.

[10] The following institutions are located in Cooch Behar Sadar subdivision: The table below (all data in numbers) presents an overview of the medical facilities available and patients treated in the hospitals, health centres and sub-centres in 2013 in Cooch Behar district, with data for the year 2012–13.

Medical facilities in the Cooch Behar Sadar subdivision are as follows: Hospitals: (Name, location, beds) [20] Rural Hospitals: (Name, CD block, location, beds) [21] Primary Health Centres : (CD block-wise)(CD block, PHC location, beds)[22] As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, the area under Cooch Behar–II block will constitute the Cooch Behar Uttar assembly constituency of West Bengal.

Chandamari, Chilkirhat, Falimari, Ghughumari, Haribhanga, Moyamari, Patchhara, Putimari–Fuleswari and Sutkabari will form the Cooch Behar Dakshin assembly constituency.

Cooch Behar Uttar constituency will be reserved for Scheduled castes (SC) candidates.