The York Federation of Students election results are in and it’s almost a clean sweep, with Student Action taking 21 of 22 seats, including all five executive positions.
LiftYU, this year’s opposition, won a single seat in the School of Arts, Media, Performance & Design.
Next year’s executive team will be familiar to students, with two current incumbent YFS executives moving on to other executive positions.
Chenthoori Malankov, VP campaigns and adovacy, will be installed as YFS President in May, with 3,514 votes out of a total of 6,841 cast for the president’s position.
LiftYU presidential candidate Melissa Calanza took 2,377 votes. Gurdeep Singh Jagpal, independent candidate, had 465 votes, while Eric Desrochers of the Bloc Glendonois had 250.
Two-hundred and thirty-five votes were spoiled.
Mary Asekome won the VP Operations race, tallying 4,047 votes against LiftYU’s Rahual Talwar, who managed 2,172 votes, while 249 ballots were spoiled.
Alexandria Williams, current VP campus life, will be the new VP Equity, with 3,775 votes. LiftYU candidate Louis Dib garnered 1,922 votes, while BG candidate Chloe Warnar-Johnstone had 275 votes. Independent candidate Rodney de Roche has 244 votes and 253 ballots were spoiled.
Rawan Habib will be the new VP Campaigns, taking 3,647 votes against LiftYU’s Anthony Brum who finished with 2,215 votes. BG candidate Alexander Sokol had 361 votes and 248 were spoiled.
Jordan Madeira, with 3,836 votes, overtook Barsha Ghosh, who put up 2,032 for VP Campus Life. Daniel Paterson of BG, took 347 votes and 238 ballots were spoiled.
Turnout for the executive positions was similarly low compared to last year’s election, but improved for several colleges.
Notably, the faculty of education had a mere 34 votes for all candidates.
The new YFS executive team assumes duties May 1.
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