Emily Lodge, a third-year Batten student and former vice president of organizations, defeated incumbent third-year College student Abraham Axler for the position of student council president. She won 55.45 percent of the total 5460 votes with 3028 votes. The entire student body was eligible to vote, and of the 22,047 possible voters, 22.91 percent responded.
Lodge spoke about her experience running and winning the position.
“I reached out to as many new people as I could and tried to give the U.Va. community a sense of my leadership style and capabilities,” Lodge said in an email statement. “But truly the win was a group effort and I could not have done it without such tremendous support and kindness from my friends.”
Sarah Kenny, a second-year College student, won the election for vice president of administration by garnering 56.77 percent of the vote with 2,868 votes.
“From putting up fliers, chalking, and going door to door in the week leading up to the polls closing, to constantly keeping up with social media, to going through a weekend of back to back, stressful endorsement interviews,” Kenny said in an email statement. “I'm incredibly honored to have been elected.”
Second-year Engineering student MacKenzie Hodgson took the final Student Council spot in contention — the position of vice president for organizations — by acquiring 57 percent of the 4,702 total votes cast for the position.
Graduate student and incumbent Caroline Herre, along with third-year Katharine Graham, won positions as representatives of the School of Architecture to the Honor Committee.
Students elected third-year students Alison Stickel and Ariana Zetlin, who ran unopposed, to be representatives of the Curry school to the Honor committee. Second-year Tamia Walker-Atwater, elected with 133 votes to represent the Nursing School, along with incumbent Austin Sim, re-elected with 479 votes to represent the law school, also ran unopposed.
Other graduate students elected to represent their respective schools on the Honor Committee were Medical students Gregory Streeter and Hannah Chacon, who won 79.28 percent and 66.67 percent of the 111 votes cast, respectively.
The rest of the Honor Committee representatives elected were third-year Commerce students Corinne Thomas and Casey Groves, third-year Engineering student Cameron Kiddy and second-year Engineering student William Rainey, fourth-year Batten student Joseph Marchese-Schmitt, third-year Batten student Jennifer Yeaton and five third-year College students: VJ Jenkins, Katie Deal, Sarah Wyckoff, Matt West and Chad Hogan.
Students also elected third-year students Christopher Cortner and Taylor Hillman to represent the School of Architecture on the University Judiciary Committee, who won 59 and 57 of the 75 votes cast, respectively.
Batten representatives elected to UJC were third-year students Jeremy Jones and Katherine Hitchcock, who ran unopposed. The rest of the undergraduate positions went to third-year Engineering student Jacqueline Kouri and second-year Engineering student Dan Donovan, third-year Commerce student Patrick Rasmussen, and third-year College students Mason Brannon, Mitchell Wellman and Anthony Dunavant.
Correction: A previous version of this article did not include the Honor Committee representatives elected from the Batten School.
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