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The Council Thursday 6 November 2014 8:15pm

Title Election Results – November 2014

Author Secretary to Trustees

Purpose For information

URC 14110612

The following were duly elected:

Post Winning candidate(a)

Anti Racism Anti Fascism Saba Shiraz School of Arts

Caring Responsibilities Patricia Wing School of

Disabled Members David Kirkman School of SSHP

Employment Rights Jon Warner School of Law

Entertainments Jay and NJ School of BEI

Environment & Ethics Debbra Goldreich School of Law

BEI General Members AJ Haseley

Kevin PK Lau

Qazi Moeez Ali

Simeon Aluko

Yoofi Halm

School of BEI

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Yu Chao Gu

Three vacancies

Arts General Members Seven vacancies School of Arts

Law General Members Mark Gould

Grayson Baker Friend

Bianca Rajasekaran

Joseph Hayward

Yee Chung

One vacancy

School of Law

Open Placed General Lincoln Barrett

Patrick Lynch

Three vacancies

Supra-School or Open

Science General Members Hana Faber

Darren Shaw

Alan Duval

Zainab Khan

Kristal Goupall

Two vacancies

School of Science

SSHP General Members Amaan Ali

Sandra Claggett

Sofiya Ahmed

David Lockhart

Ali Hendessi

Four vacancies

School of SSHP

Global Citizenship Deepti Wadhwa School of BEI

International Students Alex Fridgant School of Science

Mature Students Richard Brinck-Johnsen School of SSHP

Postgraduate Diana Fayz School of SSHP

Stratford Samual Georgewill School of SSHP

NUS London Delegates Hana Faber

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Richard Brinck-Johnsen

David Kirkman

Amaan Ali

Yu Chao Gu

John Lindner (ex officio)

Aside from Disabled Members Officer, all posts serve until November 2015 (subject to disqualification by election to another post).

The turn out was 352 unique voters, which is the highest since 2003. The last time we got about 300 votes was in Spring 2013, where

346 voters participated.

Three matters were referred to the Supervising Trustee (Valerie Hoyle as Chair of Court acting as the Returning Officer in terms of

disputes and complaints). One candidate was ruled disqualified for falsifying their nomination form (Tong Wang). The ARAF count was

suspended for release pending the Supervising Trustee reviewing the case of the late manifesto of Joseph Hayward (the manifesto was

sent in but not uploaded due to an administrative error). The final one whether the elected NUS London candidates should be

withdrawn from the count of General Member – the decision is that the Council does not recognize them as Members of Council,

therefore all elected NUS London delegates remained in the General Member ballot.

Recommendations:

1. In the next election, consideration of using a paper ballot for a couple of days at designed times (but not during the online

polling), including engagement at USS. Measures would be in place to stop any double voting.

2. Review of accessibility of the online election system and the information about the SU voting and democracy to be done

(following a request of a member)

3. Candidates elected will need to officially “accept” election to the post and sign code of conduct (agreed by the Executive

Committee on behalf of the Council). Failure to accept election within 10 days will result in forfeiture of office and a by-election

at the next Council meeting (this assists with zombie elections and quorum busting)

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