Winter 2012 ASUCD Election

Senate

Senate Candidates

NameSlate1st Round Votes
Joyce HanIndependent653
Paul MinIndependent604
Bradley BottomsIndependent585
Donkeyonta GilbertIndependent573
Dylan SchaeferIndependent277
Kabir KapurIndependent271
Norman BorgoniaSMART257
Chucha MarquezSMART208
Jaki JoaninoSMART199
Marcus KingSMART189
Beatriz AnguianoSMART186
Desun OkaSMART135
Patrick DevlinIndependent128
Colten Ellison SaundersIndependent70
Jonathan Soo HooIndependent61

Senate Turnout

Valid Votes4396
Abstained Votes537
Total Voters (Turnout)4933

The threshold for this Senate election was 629.

Slate Representation

Executive

Executive Tickets

NamesSlate1st Round Votes1st Round %
Rebecca Sterling &
Yena Bae
Independent274960.5
Bree Rombi &
Amy Martin
Independent179439.5

Executive Turnout

Total Valid Votes4543
Total Abstained Votes390
Total Voters (Turnout)4933

Notes

The Stove Top Report (provided by Creative Media) incorrectly lists Paul Min as a member of the SMART slate. He actually ran as an Independent.

Beatriz Anguiano’s election is a prime example of how Choice Voting ensures an accurate representation of the voters. Even though she placed 11th in first round votes and 5th among her own slate she managed to gain the transfer votes of voters who had initially cast their votes for her fellow slate members until she ultimately moved up to gain the 5th seat of the 6th available.

Additionally, if you look at Round 13 you can see that Norman Borgonia and Beatriz Anguiano (both SMART slate members) had enough collective votes to barely defeat Kabir Kapur and win the final two seats. If Beatriz and Norman had their collective votes in Round 13 split evenly they would each have had 478 votes to Kabir’s 465 votes. This would have given SMART 26.7% of first round votes and 33.3% of the seats, a more proportional outcome than was actually the case. There were also 193 votes that went into the Exhausted pile from the elimination of the first four SMART members. If even one-third of those SMART voters had also ranked Norman Borgonia, he would have won the 6th seat instead of Kabir Kapur.

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