Welcome to the Wessex Scene’s Winners Live Blog. This blog is for those who just want to keep up to date with the highlights of tonight rather than all the action. We should have the first winner announced shortly!
Jack Pethick
March 4, 20168:13 pm
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Our Features Editor Ellie with Union President Ben and Tom pic.twitter.com/NPcBrhNvkS
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The first sabbatical position that will be announced will be VP Engagement. This is an uncontested position, with Dan Varley the only candidate running.
DAN VARELY IS YOUR NEW VP FOR ENGAGEMENT WITH 2988 VOTES
Dan received 799 RON votes
Moving on to students communities… Apologies we have had some technical difficulties
Kesia Davies is elected WSA officer
Giles Howard is elected PGR Officer
MedSoc Pres is elected as Jingy Alom!
Sam Higman is elected Halls Officer
VP COMMUNITIES IS FLORA NOBLE WITH 2439 VOTES
Congratulations @FloraJNoble your new VP Student Communities! #VoteSUSU pic.twitter.com/TzpM40vSPC
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Even celebrity alumni Chris Stark is keeping up with the action…
Next up is VP Education. Elliot Grater is the only candidate for this position.
Faculty officer for business law and art is Hale Bener
Humanities Faculty Officer is Sam Dedman
Natural and Environmental Sciences Faculty Officer is Yousra Hikal
Physical Sciences and Engineering Faculty Officer is Anthony Kenny
Postgraduate Students Officer is Giles Howard
Social, Human and Mathematical Sciences Faculty Officer is James Edwards
VP EDUCATION IS ELLIOT GRATER WITH 3126 VOTES!
Congratulations Elliot Grater! I’m sure it’ll be a grate year 😉 #VoteSUSU pic.twitter.com/ln6WkHTCxZ
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Next Up is VP Welfare. The candidates are George Seabrook, David Allwright and Christina Vinothan.
It’s time for the Welfare zone…
Louise Bellamy is Housing officer
Fraser Delves is elected Equality and Diversity officer
Eleanor Davis is elected Ethics and Environment Officer
VP WELFARE OFFICER IS DAVID ALLWRIGHT!
David Allwright received 1981 votes.
David Allwright is your new VP Welfare, with 1981 votes! Next year should be all right then… #VoteSUSU pic.twitter.com/LCeOSgvUHa
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Next up is VP Sports Development. Tom Provan is uncontested for this position.
Athletics Union Officer is Jack Harvey with 793 votes!
Intra-Mural Officer is Deanna Rex with 699 votes!
VP SPORTS DEVELOPMENT OFFICER IS TOM PROVAN WITH 3145 VOTES!
Your new Sports Development VP is Thomas Provan, here's to a great year of sports… and development! #VoteSUSU pic.twitter.com/94ZjgV2Evd
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Next up is VP Democracy and Creative Industries. There are three candidates – Cameron Meldrum, Michael Clarke and Bryony Newman.
Union Films Cinema Manager Evie Reilly with 573 votes!
Wessex Scene Editor is Alice Hearing with 650 votes!
SUSUtv Station Manager is Alex Smith with 456 votes!
Student Groups Officer is Michael Sims!
Surge Radio Station Manager is Toby Leveson!
VP DEMOCRACY AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES IS CAMERON MELDRUM WITH 2034 VOTES!
Cameron Meldrum is your new VP DCI, well done to Cameron! #VoteSUSU #YesWeCam pic.twitter.com/JRsqBW4wiU
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The ‘Grand Finale’ is finally here! It’s time for 2016-2017 Union President to be announced …. There are five candidates competing for this role – Liibaan Mohamed, Alex Hovden, Sam Bailey, Thomas Gravatt and Zehong Au.
Our exit poll was quite tight!
Sam Bailey: 36.89%
Alex Hovden: 32.01%
Lii Mohamed 13.92%
Thomas Gravatt 6.33%
Zehong Au 5.61%
RON 5.24%
Student Trustees are Mark Cole and Hadeeka Taj!
Getting ready for the Presidential announcements! #FairlyChilled #VoteSUSU #ElectionNightLive pic.twitter.com/f7EFngA0aH
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It’s time!
Zehong Au is not out of the running for breaching Election bylaws as it did not affect the final results.
Ron is out of running.
Thomas Gravatt is out of the running.
Liibaan Mohamed is out of the running.
UNION PRESIDENT IS ALEX HOVDEN!
ALEX HOVDEN RECEIVED 2395 VOTES!
That concludes all of tonights election results. Thanks to all our readers for keeping with us until the bitter end! Make sure to follow our other live blog to keep up with all the reactions to this years SUSU Elections.
Your next Union President is Alex Hovden! #votesusu pic.twitter.com/UJfP2j3ITG
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Your 2016/17 sabbatical team is Alex Hovden (Pres), Cameron Meldrum (VP DCI), David Allwright (VP Welfare), Dan Varley (VP Engagement), Flora Noble (VP Communities), Thomas Proven (VP Sport) and Elliot Grater (VP Education).
That concludes all of tonights election results. Thanks to all our readers for keeping with us until the bitter end! Make sure to follow our other live blog to keep up with all the reactions to this years SUSU Elections.
