JCR Election 2017 Results

Dear Downing,

The results are in! For ease of typing I am going to just put the winners in this email for each role, but please do have a look at the results in detail by following this link: https://www.vote.cusu.cam.ac.uk/dow-jcr/16-17/election/
 

President: Sofiya Gatens
Vice-President: Andrew Ying
Treasurer: Bertie Cooper 
Welfare Officers:  Abdullah Ahmed, Tash Thomas 
Women’s Officer(s): Emma Lubega & Lucy Symington
 LGBT+ Officer(s): Elliot Luke & Madeleine Hyde 
 Black and Ethic Minorities Officer(s): Anand Joshi & Zeyana Yussuf 
Communications Officer: James Moore
 Services Officer:  Peter Scharrer 
Academic Affairs and Careers Officer: Sarah Turner
Access Officer: Sophie Fallen  
Freshers’ Officers: Asha Phakey & Ollie Winters  
International Officers: Ioanna Droussiotou & Sophie Corrodi
Entertainments Officers: James Gill & Harriet Jackson 
Griffin Editors: Nick Chevis & Manasij Hajra 
Environmental Officer(s): Jed Soleiman 
Sports Officer: Simon Bennett

Just for a bit of context, remember that we are using STV and that the threshold to decide whether a candidate is eliminated or not is calculated by dividing the total number of votes cast by the number of positions +1 (leading in the welfare officers case for the threshold of 33%). For more info check out this Electoral Reform Society leaflet: http://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/sites/default/files/What-is-STV.pdf

Best,
Tom 
(Outgoing President)

Posted in News on Feb 14, 2017