District Election Office
Election Branch
Collector and District Election Officer is the control officer of all the elections in the district. He is the election officer for the parliamentary constituency. Under the rank of a Deputy Collector as the election officer for the assembly constituency, the officers who are not below the rank are appointed. In general, the election officers of the legislative assembly constituency are as assistant election officers for the parliamentary elections.
Generally, the Collector is appointed as the election officer for managing the Lok Sabha elections, and the assistant commissioner of the deputy collector is appointed to assist the Collector.
For the management of the assembly elections, the Collector has all the control powers as a district election officer and Deputy Collector and sub-divisional officers are appointed as election officers of each constituency constituency.
Key Functions:
- Issuance of Photo-identity cards to voters.
- Corrections pertaining to Identity cards.
- Making of duplicate photo I.D cards.
- Issuance of attested copies of Electoral Rolls on demand to public.
- Maintain the record regarding elections.
- Responsible for the up-keep and maintenance of Ballot Boxes, Electronic voting machines, steel trunks and previous record of Electoral Rolls.
- Stationary depot where stationary pertaining to the elections is printed.
- To efficiently conduct the election to the Assembly Constituency of which he is the Returning Officer.
- To accept and scrutinize the nomination forms of the candidates.
- To allot the election symbols to the contesting candidates.
- To publish the notice regarding the election.
- To prepare a list of contesting candidates.
- Printing of ballot papers and to forward the postal ballots to the service electors.
- Deputing the polling officers to the polling booths with the election materials.
- To supervise the functions of the polling officers in his Assembly Constituency on the day of poll and forward the necessary report to the Election Commission of India and the Chief Electoral Officer.
- To get the polling completed during the election in a fair and just manner and as per the statutory provisions.
Office Address:
District Election Officer(DEO)
Office of The Collector & District Magistrate,
Near Subhash Bridge Circle,
R.T.O Ashram Rd,Ahmedabad,
Gujarat-380027,Contact No : 079-27550618
Voter as on Date-01/01/2018 Sr. No. Name of Legislative constituency Male Voters Female Voters Third Gender Total Voters 1 39- Viramgam 142635 132173 3 274811 2 40- Sanand 128631 118874 6 247511 3 41- Ghatlodiya 183823 173542 2 357367 4 42- Vejalpur 170230 161146 13 331389 5 43- Vatva 171480 145861 2 317343 6 44-Ellisbridge 123684 122142 1 245827 7 45- Naranpura 119299 112333 3 231635 8 46- Nikol 126228 107388 4 233620 9 47- Naroda 142118 125179 22 267319 10 48- Thakkarbapanagar 119127 105395 6 224528 11 49- Bapunagar 100956 90242 12 191210 12 50- Amaraivadi 145199 125859 5 271063 13 51- Dariyapur 101313 95620 4 196937 14 52- Jamalpur-Khadia 101895 97733 1 199629 15 53- Maninagar 131519 121719 2 253240 16 54- Danilimda (SC) 121516 111203 5 232724 17 55- Sabarmati 133274 120868 8 254150 18 56- Asarva (SC) 106529 96871 2 203402 19 57- Daskroi 166007 151193 4 317204 20 58- Dholka 121084 111644 1 232729 21 59- Dhandhuka 132442 115273 9 247724