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The Winter 2014 ASUCD Elections were held from February 18th at 8am to February 21st at 8am. Six Senate seats, along with the offices of President and Vice President, were up for election. Also up for a vote was one ballot measure seeking to increase student fees to subsidize The California Aggie. Voting took place, as always, at http://elections.ucdavis.edu.

Voter turnout was the second highest in recorded ASUCD History with 27.11%.¹

Results

The preliminary results were released on February 21, 2014.

Executive

• Armando Figueroa for President (SMART) and Maxwell Kappes for Vice President (Independent)

Senate Candidates

• Azka Fayyaz (SMART)
• Robyn Huey (SMART)
• Artem Senchev (I)
• Amelia Helland (NOW)
• Eugenia Chung (NOW)
• Nicholas Sanchez (SMART)

Ballot Measure

• Save the Aggie Failed*

*Invalidated by the ASUCD Court. Check the measure's page for reasons.

Aggie Endorsements

As seen in some previous elections, the Aggie decided to not give a full endorsement of six candidates as it normally would. Taken from the endorsement article, "Normally, we would select six senate candidates to endorse. Unfortunately, we were underwhelmed with the majority of prospective senators, most of whom are running on unfeasible and unoriginal platforms." "The California Aggie" has endorsed:

Executive

• Armando Figueroa for President (SMART) and Maxwell Kappes for Vice President (Independent)

Senate Candidates

• 1. Robyn Huey (SMART)
• 2. Amelia Helland (NOW)
• 3. Azka Fayyaz (SMART)
• 4. Arya Shirani (NOW)

Ballot Measures

• Yes on Save the Aggie.

Fun Statistics

For the following sections bold means they were one of the winning candidates. These are not the actual election results.

Condorcet Winner

The Condorcet winner (the least objectionable candidate) of this election was Azka Fayyaz.

Top 6

2118	Azka Fayyaz
2070	Robyn Huey
1877	Amelia Helland
1758	Nicholas Sanchez
1682	Eugenia Chung
1634	Anthony Gil
1625	Andrea Jao
1617	Arya Shirani
1602	Zeenat Yahya
1562	Artem Senchev
1522	Sierra Henderson
1450	Sergio Gonzalez
1286	Diana Lopez Solorzano
1009	Gloria Chen
790	Gulraj Gill

Most Hated

Who got the most last-ranked votes? This election two winning candidates tied for most hated:

83	Artem Senchev
83	Azka Fayyaz
71	Amelia Helland
70	Gloria Chen
65	Arya Shirani
61	Gulraj Gill
58	Sergio Gonzalez
57	Nicholas Sanchez
52	Sierra Henderson
46	Diana Lopez Solorzano
45	Eugenia Chung
37	Anthony Gil
33	Zeenat Yahya
33	Robyn Huey
31	Andrea Jao

Potential Countback Elections

Coming soon...

2014-02-22 00:02:19   For the other ASUCD Election nerds out there... I will archive the data for this election and the previous election on my website. I'm revamping the website to make it easier to update and not look awful. When that is done, I will add and update the links on daviswiki. —JonathonLeathers

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2014-02-25 03:27:07   Interesting... we're 4 for 7 on electing the most hated candidate since Eli's Winter 2011 win. —RyanMeyerhoff

Footnotes

1. The amount of students who did not abstain on the Aggie Ballot measure was 19.26%, for Executive 24.32%, and for Senate 23.45%; however, many students expressed that they unaware of how to vote for The Aggie fee initiative in the first iteration of the website, and the default for those 8 hours was "Abstain", a voting choice not present on the Fee Initiative Bill.