Gujarat Assembly elections announced in two phases on Dec 9 & 14, counting on Dec 18

New Delhi:

Gujarat Assembly elections will be held in two phases on December 9 and 14 while the counting of votes will take place along with that for Himachal Pradesh assembly polls on December 18, the election commission announced today.

Addressing a press conference here CEC A K Joti said that on December 9 ie in the first phase, of the total 182 constituencies, 89 of 19 districts (Kutch, Surendranagar, Rajkot, Morbi, Jamnagar, Devbhomi-Dwarka, Porbandar, Gir-Somnath, Junagadh, Amreli, Bhavnagar, Botad, Narmada, Bharuch, Surat, Tapi, Navsari, Valsad, and Dangs ) will go to polls. (All districts of Saurashtra-Kutch and South Gujarat region)
The notification for the first phase will be issued on November 14 with which the nomination process will begin. The last date for nominations will be November 21. The date for scrutiny of nomination papers will be November 22 while the it can be withdrawn till November 24.

In the second phase on December 14, 93 constituencies of remaining 14 districts (Ahmedabad, Banaskantha, Patan, Mahesana, Sabarkantha, Aravlalli, Gandhinagar, Anand, Kheda, Mahisagar, Panchmahal, Dahod, Vadodara and Chota Udepur) will go to polls. (All districts of North and Central Gujarat region)

The notification for the second phase will be issued on November 20 with which the nomination process will begin. The last date for nominations will be November 27. The date for scrutiny of nomination papers will be November 28 while the it can be withdrawn till November 30.
Joti said that of the total 4.33 crore voters 2.11 crore will be for the first phase while the remaining 2.21 crores will be able to exercise their franchise in the second phase.
Counting of votes will take place on December 18.
With the announcement of the poll schedule the model code of conduct has become effective in Gujarat.
For the first time one booth in each of the 182 constituencies will be managed by women only. There are a total of 4.33 voters in the state as per the latest voters list revision after which the latest voters lists were published in September this year. The total number of booths was 50128 across all the 182 assembly constituencies.

All the EVMs to be used in the election will have VVPAT attached to them.

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