Photo: Jamie Manley/The Chicago Maroon
Vidal Anguiano
Raymond Dong
Ilknur Aliyev
Yusef Al-Jarani
Congratulations to all the candidates on a hard-fought race. You should be proud of yourselves, whether you won or lost.
UPDATED:
Here are the vote totals for the winning candidates:
171 Yusef Al-Jarani
164 Ilknur Aliyev
140 Raymond Dong
118 Vidal Anguiano
Four other candidates received over 100 votes, making for a very competitive election. In fact, the fifth-place candidate, Esteban Valencia, was just one vote shy of creating another fourth-place tie situation.
667 first-years voted in the polls, just four short of last year’s total of 671, which set a first-year election record.
Why no Ricky Stewart?
Congratulations Raymond!! We’re all super proud of you!!
RECOUNT. RICKY WON. HE MUST HAVE.
This is inexcusable.
what were the vote totals for the write ins?
This is a surprise; last year’s winners top two winners, Ben C. Yu and Forrest Scofield were at 280 and 210. I guess the distribution became a lot more even this year…?
Is Student Government on some sort of Electoral College system? Because Ricky Stewart ran away with the popular vote.
Kay Li was clearly the most qualified candidate in that he did not run a fucking asinine campaign.
I guess a lot MORE people voted for the candidates who actually won.
The Maroon will release the totals at some point, I believe, so there’s no point for me to spoil it.
Anastasia ran a record write-in campaign, with a total of 90 votes, coming in 10th of 21 INTENTIONAL competitors.
Ricky Stewart received 37 for not running at all, which is impressive yet unsurprising.
Let me see if I can get you the totals for Kay Li as well– we don’t tend to list those if they are both write-ins and not intentional.
Thanks!
Angela Wang
Meant to add that the votes (for the 21 main candidates) have a range of 23-171, with a mean of 90, and a median of 90.9.
The standard deviation was 38.8, so there you go, Johnny.
Ben had rather comprehensive name recognition, so that accounts for the difference.
6 for Kay Li! He wasn’t mentioned too many times regarding campaigns, so that makes sense.
This is Ilknur Aliyev, this is not a show