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Student Elections Results 2024!
A full breakdown of this years Election results! And a huge thank you to the 3,381 who turned out to vote in this years election!
- Posted Fri, Feb 23, 2024 10:00 AM
Firstly, a huge thank you to every single one of you who voted in this year's elections to decide your 2024/25 Elected Officer team!
Here at the Union, we use the 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:
Academic Representation
For the position of Academic Representation Officer, 2,409 students voted for this position and the quota was 1,205. This election went to 1 round.
In the first round, No Suitable Candidate (NSC) received 194 votes
Marija Solic was elected with 2,215 votes in the 1st round
Democracy & Campaigns
For the position of Democracy & Campaigns Officer, 2,451 students voted for this position and the quota was 1,226. This election went to 1 round.
In the first round, No Suitable Candidate (NSC) received 112 votes
Simba Dube received 925 votes
Anwar Jawula was elected with 1,414 votes in the 1st round
Development Officer
For the position of Development Officer, 2,515 students voted for this position and the quota was 1,258. This election went to 4 rounds.
In the first round, No Suitable Candidate (NSC) received 78 votes
In the second round, Saiful Islam received 386 votes
In the third round, William Reeves received 533 votes
In the fourth round, Pushpinder Virk received 747 votes
Dan Ummu-Salamah was elected with 1,308 votes in the 4th round
Learning Experience
For the position of Learning Experience Officer, 2,467 students voted for this position and the quota was 1,234. This election went to 1 round.
In the first round, No Suitable Candidate (NSC) received 76 votes
Aravind Gummadi received 487 votes
Kajetan Albin received 542 votes
Blessing Okafor was elected with 1,362 votes in the 1st round
Welfare
For the position of Welfare Officer, 2,651 students voted for this position and the quota was 1,326. This election went to 5 rounds.
In the first round, No Suitable Candidate (NSC) received 59 votes
In the second round, Edward Elachi received 279 votes
In the third round, Ines Brzychcyk received 642 votes
In the fourth round, Dionne Moore received 1,085 votes
Connor Sutherland was elected with 1,747 votes in the 5th round
*The images of the breakdowns of votes say "download ballot file", please not this is not a clickable link that you can download and is just because they are screenshots taken from our internal elections system
Congratulations to our winners and a hue 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!
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