/IITG_ElectionPortal

Gymkhana election portal of IIT Guwahati. Gymkhana elections are for the executive posts and the senate of the institute. Over 5000 students use this portal. Technologies used were Django framework and PostgreSQL.

Primary LanguageJavaScript

IITG Gymkhana Election Portal

The portal used for the Gymkhana Elections 2017 of Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati,India.

Requirements

Django 1.10 and any suitable database(postgreSQL or SQLite). Currently SQLite is being used.

Setting Up

  1. Installing Django

     sudo apt-get update

 sudo apt-get install python3 python3-pip

 sudo pip3 install django=1.10

  2. Migrating the Models

     ./manage.py makemigrations

 ./manage.py migrate

  3. Populating the Database

A file has been provided for populating the database properly. You just need to make two 'csv' files in the desired formats :-

  • contestant.csv

  • voter.csv

Both the files will be in the directory containing the file data_upload.py.

The format of contestant.csv

Full Name Post Webmail Agenda 1 Agenda 2 Agenda 3 Agenda 4 Pic Name
John Doe VP john.doe@iitg.ernet.in Agenda 1 Agenda 2 Agenda 3 Agenda 4 file name of the picture of the contestant without extension(jpg only)

Post :-

VP      =   Vice President  
HAB     =   General Secretary of Hostel Affairs Board  
UGS     =   Under Graduate Senator  
PGS     =   Post Graduate Senator  
GS      =   Girl Senator  
Tech    =   General Secretary of Technical Board  
Cult    =   General Secretary of Cultural Board  
Welfare =   General Secretary of Students Welfare Board  
Sports  =   General Secretary of Sports Board  
SAIL    =   General Seceratry of SAIL  
CBS     =   General Seceratry of CBS

The format of voter.csv

Webmail Category Hostel Department
john.doe 0 Dihing CSE

Category :-

0   =   UG-Boy
1   =   UG-Girl
2   =   PG-Boy
3   =   PG-Girl

  • Then run the data uploading script :-

      python3 manage.py shell < 'data_upload.py'

Note : It will take some time in uploading the data.

User Interface

Admin login portal:

URL: /vote/admin

Admin

Voter login portal:

URL: /vote/voter

Voter