Updated Friday
Jason Lifton has won this year’s Student Association presidential race, the Joint Elections Committee announced in the Marvin Center Thursday night.
Lifton beat rival Xochitl Sanchez, garnering 51.5 percent of the vote. When the result was announced, Lifton’s supporters hoisted him into the air, yelling and reciting Sigma Chi chants.
“After a clearly successful year, after a bunch of things were accomplished, the students said what they wanted,” Lifton, the SA’s current executive vice president, said. “I will continue fighting for students, advocating and doing what we’ve been doing all year.”
“And I don’t have a midterm tomorrow like I did last year!” Lifton added.
EVP candidates Logan Dobson and Rob Maxim will advance to a runoff in two weeks, the JEC said. Neither reached the required 40 percent plurality required.
Dobson received 1,106 votes and 27.8 percent, and Maxim received 1,043 votes and 26.3% of the vote.
“It was a really close race, I was outspent by all my opponents,” Dobson said. “I’m really looking forward to the runoff.”
Rob Maxim said he had a lot to celebrate.
“I’m also excited because it’s my 21st birthday,” Maxim said. “There’s one percent differentiating me from Logan, and now we’re going to see who has the greater support of the student body.”
Before any results were announced, a JEC member told the crowd that “a very large number of complaints” were filed against “a very large number of candidates.”
The JEC will meet tomorrow to consider the violations, but “a large number of candidates are at risk for being disqualified.”
According to the JEC Charter, if a candidate accumulates six or more election violations, they can be disqualified.
The biggest surprise of the night was the JEC’s announcement that joke candidate Steve Holt actually received enough votes to win both a Senior Class Council and Marvin Center Governing Board graduate seat. The JEC noted in the final results that they do not believe Steve Holt is an actual person.
The complete election results were posted on the JEC’s Web site Friday.
SA President
Jason Lifton: 51.5% (2110)
Xochitl Sanchez: 48.5% (1989)
SA Executive Vice President – RUN-OFF
Logan Dobson: 27.8% (1106)
Rob Maxim: 26.3% (1043)
Jon Binetti: 24.8% (984)
Josh Goldstein: 21.1% (839)
SA Senator, Undergraduate At-Large
Chris Clark: 33.0% (1565)
Charlie Rybak: 28.2% (1340)
Chas Pressner: 23.4% (1109)
Ahmad Mustafa: 15.4% (732)
SA Senator, Graduate At-Large (NO ELECTION)
Nika Pari Nourmohammadi
Matthew Sauvage
SA Senator, Columbian College of Arts and Science – U
Amanda Galonek: 8.8% (664)
Sam Hoffman: 7.2% (541)
Dylan F. Pyne: 6.9% (521)
Jason Kaplan: 6.9% (516)
Madiha Malik: 6.4% (484)
Ted Costigan: 6.4% (479)
Kim Wollner: 6.1% (456)
Coca O’Donnell: 5.9% (443)
Sloan Dickey: 5.8% (440)
Russell Dinolfo: 5.7% (430)
Bum Hee Lee: 5.3% (399)
Broc Exposito: 4.5% (336)
Jon Fenech: 4.4% (328)
Evan Honor: 3.9% (296)
Jacob E. Thayer: 3.4% (257)
Mitchell Ford: 3.4% (255)
Brett Rudman: 3.4% (254)
Kimia Ramezani: 3.2% (238)
Alexander J. Mizenko: 2.6% (193)
SA Senator, CCAS – G (TWO WRITE-INS)
Shwetha Shekar (Elected by default)
Erblin Mehmetaj: 14.8% (4)
Lu Xie: 14.8% (4)
Assorted others: 70.4% (19)
SA Senator, CPS (NO ELECTION)
Jim Green
SA Senator, Elliott School of International Affairs – U
Travis Holler: 21.2% (410)
Min Kyu Kim: 16.0% (310)
John Bennett: 11.7% (226)
Benjamin Weinberg: 8.9% (173)
Andrew Jackson Detsch V: 8.4% (163)
Christopher Wirth: 7.9% (152)
Bryan Pratt: 5.8% (113)
Galen Petruso: 5.8% (112)
Joseph Bishop: 5.1% (98)
Brian Kelly: 5.0% (96)
Douglas Arbetter: 4.2% (81)
SA Senator, ESIA – G (NO ELECTION)
Sean P. Wilson
SA Senator, GSEHD (ONE WRITE-IN)
Kayla Wright (Elected by default)
No write-in votes cast
SA Senator, Law (NO ELECTION)
Abdullah Masud
Katie Thompson
SA Senator, SEAS – U (NO ELECTION)
Zahin Hasan
SA Senator, SEAS – G (NO ELECTION)
Siddhasth Chaubal
Shankar Venkateswaran
SA Senator, SMHS – U (ONE WRITE-IN)
No write-in votes cast
SA Senator, SMHS – G (ONE WRITE-IN)
Robert Kickish (Elected by default)
Tom Fogarty: 23.5% (12)
Assorted others: 76.5% (39)
SA Senator – School of Business – U
Cory Grever: 26.2% (184)
Claire Brunner: 25.5% (179)
Zach Kahn: 25.4% (178)
Matthew Heymann: 22.9% (161)
SA Senator, SoB – G (NO ELECTION)
Ian Cropp
Cari Smith
SA Senator, SPHHS – U (NO ELECTION)
Meredith Waters
SA Senator, SPHHS – G – POTENTIAL RUN-OFF (ONE WRITE-IN)
Laura Annetta: 20.0% (1)
Karen Clune: 20.0% (1)
Ivy Haskins: 20.0% (1)
Kathryn Pitts: 20.0% (1)
Dustin Summers: 20.0% (1)
Program Board Chair (NO ELECTION)
Wes Callahan
Program Board Vice-Chair (NO ELECTION)
Connor Currier
Marvin Center Governing Board Undergraduate Governor
Christopher Franzetti: 26.2% (1940)
Shawn Kelly: 19.3% (1431)
Kai Shaw: 18.6% (1374)
Gary Wong: 18.0% (1329)
Paul Stephen: 17.9% (1327)
MCGB Graduate (ONE WRITE-IN) – POTENTIAL RUN-OFF
Felix Harcourt: 3.7% (4)
Ivy Haskins: 3.7% (4)
Steve Holt: 3.7% (4)*
Assorted others: 85.3% (93)
Class Council Sophomore Representative (Class of 2013)
Caroline Ayes: 13.6% (730)
Ellen Nadeau: 13.6% (729)
Lydia Roseman: 13.1% (703)
Katrin Weitzmann: 12.8% (697)
Diane Horn: 12.5% (679)
Brittany Lee Garcia: 11.8% (644)
Arsalan Ahmad: 11.4% (622)
Jiani Zong: 10.3% (550)
Class Council Junior Representative (Class of 2012) (ONE WRITE-IN)
Scott Backer (Elected by default)
Kimia Ramezani (Elected by default)
Jonathan Read (Elected by default)
Kai Shaw (Elected by default)
Brian Teubner (Elected by default)
Rodrigo Tranami (Elected by default)
Andreas Shambilides: 8.3% (26)
Assorted others: 91.7% (286)
Class Council Senior Representative (Class of 2011) – POTENTIAL RUN-OFF (ONE WRITE-IN)
Richard Alexander (Elected by default)
Lisa Hartland (Elected by default)
Ari Kasper (Elected by default)
Ricardo Muniz (Elected by default)
Kadin Nazkani (Elected by default)
Rachel Sussman (Elected by default)
Steve Holt: 13.8% (29)*
Aleli Pardo: 4.3% (9)
Courtney Keiser: 4.3% (9)
Dan Bandong: 4.3% (9)
Assorted others: 73.3% (154)
*The JEC does not believe that Steve Holt is an actual person
