At a glance
- Voting system: Alternative Transferable Vote (ATV)
- Individual voters: 1367
- Turnout: 19% of the SOAS student body
- Roles announced: Activities and Campaigns, Democracy and Education, Welfare and Liberation
SU Elections operate on an ATV voting system - Alternative Transferable Vote
How ATV works: Voters rank candidates in order of preference by marking 1, 2, 3 and so on. A voter can rank as many or as few candidates as they like, or vote for one candidate only.
As explained by UK Parliament:
First preference votes are counted first. If a candidate receives more than 50 per cent of the first preference votes, then they are elected.
If no candidate reaches 50 per cent, the candidate with the fewest first preference votes is eliminated. Their second preference votes are reallocated to the remaining candidates.
If one candidate has more votes than the other remaining candidates put together, that candidate is elected. If not, the process is repeated until one candidate has more votes than the other remaining candidates put together. This candidate wins the election.
If you are still a little confused, check out this handy video, which explains ATV a little further.
With 1367 individual voters, 19% of the SOAS student body voted in this year’s election. Please find the breakdown for the individual roles below.
Elected
Co-President Activities and Campaigns
Total votes cast: 1199
- Re-Open Nominations was excluded at stage 2 with 10 votes.
- Mohd. Arham Khan was excluded at stage 3 with 44 votes.
- Sarah Choudhary was excluded at stage 4 with 139 votes.
- Atiya Gaffar was excluded at stage 5 with 159 votes.
- Sami Abdur Razzak was excluded at stage 6 with 188 votes.
- Aleezay Shahbaz was excluded at stage 7 with 319 votes.
Claudia Nader was duly elected as Co-President Activities and Campaigns with 418 votes.
Elected
Co-President Democracy and Education
Total votes cast: 1139
- Re-Open Nominations was excluded at stage 2 with 10 votes.
- Fahim Fayez was excluded at stage 3 with 57 votes.
- Yuchen Hu was excluded at stage 4 with 74 votes.
- Leo Bodycote was excluded at stage 5 with 88 votes.
- Adam Frost was excluded at stage 6 with 124 votes.
- Germa Tsion Tekle Mariam was excluded at stage 7 with 141 votes.
- Mariam Mansoor was excluded at stage 8 with 334 votes.
Samson Onwe was duly elected as Co-President Democracy and Education with 411 votes.
Elected
Co-President Welfare and Liberation
Total votes cast: 1111
- Re-Open Nominations was excluded at stage 2 with 5 votes.
- Beti Mcgreevy was excluded at stage 3 with 53 votes.
- Nivea Palmer-Mckenzie was excluded at stage 4 with 139 votes.
- Mari Tagami was excluded at stage 5 with 186 votes.
- Mayowa Osideko was excluded at stage 6 with 212 votes.
- Irini Resuello-Dauti was excluded at stage 7 with 260 votes.
Sana Irfan was duly elected as Co-President Welfare and Liberation with 367 votes.
Congratulations: A big well done to all candidates for standing in this election. There was a great atmosphere across campus during election week, with brilliant ideas and conversations throughout. Congratulations to Claudia, Samson and Sana.
Beyond the Neoliberal University: How Do We Free Education?
In the run up to the National Demonstration for Free Education,
join our public meeting about the current neoliberal education system and how we can transform it to create free, democratic, representative and inclusive educational institutions!
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Tuesday 17th November, at 7PM in the KLT, SOAS
Join us for discussion about the current neoliberal education system, and about how we can transform it to create free, democratic, representative, inclusive and supportive educational institutions.
The current education system is not democratic, representative or inclusive. While there is a £1 billion surplus in the higher education sector and management salaries are increasing, staff’s pay in universities and colleges have been cut by 13% in real terms since 2008 and pensions are now under attack, teachers’ labour is increasingly being casualised, services are increasingly being outsourced, half of universities and two thirds of further education colleges in the UK use zero hours contracts and 12,500 workers in universities are paid less than the Living Wage. There are only 85 black professors out of 20,000 in the UK, there is a significant gender pay gap, a significant black students’ attainment gap, teachers and curricula are not representative of liberation groups and teaching and learning is not inclusive and supportive of all students.
Join our public meeting on Monday 17th November at 7pm in the KLT, in the run up to the National Demonstration for Free Education, to discuss the impact of neoliberalism on education and how we can transcend the current education system, abolishing financial and social barriers and creating an education system that is not just free in terms of not having fees (for international students as well as home students), but that is also democratic, representative, inclusive and supportive of all students and staff.
Speakers:
David Graeber - lecturer in anthropology at LSE and activist
Meera Sabaratnam - lecturer in International Relations at SOAS and UCU representative
Arianna Tassinari - former SOAS Students' Union Co-President and activist
Mattew Brett - (via video from Montreal) former SOAS student, involved with the Free Education movement in Quebec
Short speeches will be followed by discussion in break out groups about how to take forward the campaign. Groups will feedback to everyone, and then we'll collectively come up with action points!
ALL INVITED!
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/467299456741381/
