Student Elections Results 2025!

Thank you to every single one of you who voted in this year's elections to decide your 2025/26 Elected Officer team!

The Union uses a Single Transferable Voting system to decide our Elections. If you aren’t too sure on how this works, our friends at Lincoln SU have created a quick little video explaining it using chocolate! 

The full breakdown of this years elections are as follows:

Inclusion Officer

For the position of Inclusion Officer, 2532 students voted for this position and the quota was 1267. This election went to 5 rounds.

In the first round, the vote breakdown was as follows:

• Simba Dube received 969 votes
• Jeet Chatterjee received 478 votes
• Paul Praveen received 447 votes
• Nandha Kangath Pramod received 354 votes
• Wyatt Saveker received 206 votes
• No Suitable Candidate (NSC) received 78 votes (Eliminated this round and votes distributed)

In the second round, the vote breakdown was as follows:

• Simba Dube received 977 votes
• Jeet Chatterjee received 481 votes
• Paul Praveen received 454 votes
• Nandha Kangath Pramod received 360 votes
• Wyatt Saveker received 209 votes (Eliminated this round and votes distributed)

In the third round, the vote breakdown was as follows:

• Simba Dube received 977 votes
• Jeet Chatterjee received 501 votes
• Paul Praveen received 475 votes
• Nandha Kangath Pramod received 386 votes (Eliminated this round and votes distributed)

In the fourth round, the vote breakdown was as follows:

• Simba Dube received 1092 votes
• Paul Praveen received 558 votes
• Jeet Chatterjee received 556 votes (Eliminated this round and votes distributed)

In the fifth round, the vote breakdown was as follows:

• Simba Dube received 1249 votes
• Paul Praveen received 727 votes

Simba Dube was elected with 1249 votes in the 5th round.

Opportunities Officer

For the position of Opportunities Officer, 2670 students voted for this position and the quota was 1336. This election went to 5 rounds.

In the first round, the vote breakdown was as follows:

• Charday Stone received 826 votes
• Archana Badineni received 711 votes
• Jonathan Tyler-Moore received 519 votes
• Tej Tebite received 282 votes
• Bilal Faizan received 273 votes
• No Suitable Candidate (NSC) received 59 votes (Eliminated this round and votes distributed)

In the second round, the vote breakdown was as follows:

• Charday Stone received 833 votes
• Archana Badineni received 713 votes
• Jonathan Tyler-Moore received 525 votes
• Tej Tebite received 283 votes
• Bilal Faizan received 278 votes (Eliminated this round and votes distributed)

In the third round, the vote breakdown was as follows:

• Charday Stone received 876 votes
• Archana Badineni received 774 votes
• Jonathan Tyler-Moore received 552 votes
• Tej Tebite received 311 votes (Eliminated this round and votes distributed)

In the fourth round, the vote breakdown was as follows:

• Charday Stone received 924 votes
• Archana Badineni received 832 votes
• Jonathan Tyler-Moore received 596 votes (Eliminated this round and votes distributed)

In the fifth round, the vote breakdown was as follows:

• Charday Stone received 1112 votes
• Archana Badineni received 980 votes

Charday Stone was elected with 1112 votes in the 5th round.

Welfare Officer

For the position of Welfare Officer, 2824 students voted for this position and the quota was 1413. This election went to 6 rounds.

In the first round, the vote breakdown was as follows:

• Verity Knight received 807 votes
• Mohamed Basil received 689 votes
• Sunaina Michelle Roy received 444 votes
• Johnpaul Ihula received 367 votes
• Helin Arslan received 248 votes
• Arafat Hossain received 203 votes
• No Suitable Candidate (NSC) received 66 votes (Eliminated this round and votes distributed)

In the second round, the vote breakdown was as follows:

• Verity Knight received 813 votes
• Mohamed Basil received 695 votes
• Sunaina Michelle Roy received 452 votes
• Johnpaul Ihula received 371 votes
• Helin Arslan received 250 votes
• Arafat Hossain received 209 votes (Eliminated this round and votes distributed)

In the third round, the vote breakdown was as follows:

• Verity Knight received 836 votes
• Mohamed Basil received 732 votes
• Sunaina Michelle Roy received 470 votes
• Johnpaul Ihula received 390 votes
• Helin Arslan received 268 votes (Eliminated this round and votes distributed)

In the fourth round, the vote breakdown was as follows:

• Verity Knight received 884 votes
• Mohamed Basil received 765 votes
• Sunaina Michelle Roy received 520 votes
• Johnpaul Ihula received 423 votes (Eliminated this round and votes distributed)

In the fifth round, the vote breakdown was as follows:

• Verity Knight received 995 votes
• Mohamed Basil received 850 votes
• Sunaina Michelle Roy received 593 votes (Eliminated this round and votes distributed)

In the sixth round, the vote breakdown was as follows:

• Verity Knight received 1161 votes
• Mohamed Basil received 982 votes

Verity Knight was elected with 1161 votes in the 6th round.

Education Officer

For the position of Education Officer, 2635 students voted for this position and the quota was 1318. This election went to 3 round(s).

In the first round, the vote breakdown was as follows:

• Blessing Okafor received 1081 votes
• Laud Paul-Gablah received 975 votes
• Raiyan Rahman received 495 votes
• No Suitable Candidate (NSC) received 84 votes (Eliminated this round and votes distributed)

In the second round, the vote breakdown was as follows:

• Blessing Okafor received 1094 votes
• Laud Paul-Gablah received 981 votes
• Raiyan Rahman received 510 votes (Eliminated this round and votes distributed)

In the third round, the vote breakdown was as follows:

• Blessing Okafor received 1206 votes
• Laud Paul-Gablah received 1107 votes

Blessing Okafor was elected with 1206 votes in the 3rd round.

Congratulations to our winners and a huge well done to all the candidates that ran in this years election! And lastly another big thank you to every student who voted - you democratic legends!