The “Dream Ahead” ticket won the races for Student Council's three highest positions — President, Vice President for Administration and Vice President for Operations. Third-year Commerce Student Michael Mitchell received 51.7 percent of votes, winning the race for Student Council President. Mitchell surpassed his opponent, third-year College student Micah Andrews, by a 3.4 point percentage difference.
Third-year College student Saehee Pérez defeated third-year College student Emily Frost in the election for Student Council VPA, receiving 65.5 percent of votes. Additionally, third-year Batten student Harper Tran won the race against third-year Engineering student Ben Lawrence with 63.4 percent of the votes, and will be the incoming Student Council VPO.
The “Dream Ahead” ticket ran on three pillars — stability, vision and justice. Mitchell, Pérez and Tran expressed their goals to establish an endowment for the Council in order to stabilize long-term funding, increase resources for Contracted Independent Organizations and advocate for students on issues including student housing and the academic advising process.
The Student Council presidential and vice-presidential elections received a voter turnout of approximately 25 percent of the student body, which is more than double than last year’s approximate 12 percent.
Other positions students voted for on this year’s ballot included class council presidents, representatives across student self-governance organizations — Student Council, the Honor Committee and the University Judiciary Committee — and College Council executive members.
Third-year College student Jackson Sleadd and third-year Commerce student Marwa Ashan ran uncontested for president and vice president of the Fourth-Year Trustees, respectively. The Fourth-year Trustees is the name of the fourth-year class council, and for the third-year class council, second-year Commerce student Hayden Matay and second-year Data Science student Pavi Gupta ran uncontested as president and vice president, respectively.
First-year Engineering student Peter Allen won the contested race for second-year Council president against first-year College student Raheem Bashir. First-year College student Sophie Grace Stevenson received 60.2 percent of votes against first-year College student Titus Ngouepo to win the race as second-year Council vice president.
In the Honor race, five College representative candidates were elected out of eight total students who ran. Third-year College students Cody Scarce, Genny Freed, Sree Pamulapati, Annie Linley and Walter Blessing were the top-five candidates to receive the highest percentage of votes, with each winning 42.9, 39.6, 37.7, 35.9 and 26.5 percent, respectively.
In the UJC elections, 19 College students ran for eight open undergraduate College representative seats. Second-year College student Maddie Walsh, third-year College student Zach Davidson, first-year College student Titus Ngouepo, third-year College student Jenna Rowen-Delson, second-year College student Saxon Kelleher, third-year College student PJ Duffy, third-year College student Ella Kotok and first-year College student Grace Schuerch-Carrabis received the most votes to secure their seats.
While Honor and UJC have elected representatives for each school within the University, internal elections will take place within both organizations to elect chairs and executive board members.
The contested races for Student Council Undergraduate Arts and Sciences Representatives included 14 students for 12 spots. 21.3 percent of students who opened a UBE ballot participated in this election, and third-year College student Jackson Sleadd received 43.02 percent of votes. Other elected representatives include first-year College student Titus Ngouepo, second-year College student Katie Frick, second-year College student Manuela Kodwo, third-year College student Jenna Rowen-Delson, first-year College student Nulia Obiorah, first-year College student Malcolm Powell, first-year College student Stephanie Adejayan, third-year College student Ian Travis, second-year College student Lucas Addison, first-year College student Benjamin Foster and first-year College student Aliha Buriro.
In addition to these representatives for the College, Alexis Guschel was elected Student Council Undergraduate Continuing and Professional Studies Representative, Megan Costilow was elected Student Council Graduate Continuing and Professional Studies Representative and Imane Akhanous was elected Student Council Graduate Batten Representative in contested elections.
The race for College Council president was also contested, and third-year College student Taranpreet Kaur defeated second-year College student Lucas Addison and first-year College student Amare White to win the race.
The full results for each election can be found on the University Board of Elections website.
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