Good evening and welcome to York Vision’s liveblog of the 2011 YUSU Elections Results Night.
Exit polls have predicted a win for the ex-Halifax JCRC Chair Lydia Blundell in tonight’s presidential race, whilst the outcome of other positions is set to be tight, with only 1% expected between the Academic Affairs candidates. Nonetheless, in the past exit polls have proved misleading, and the actual outcome is very much still up in the air.
Vision will be bringing you the results as they happen tonight live from L/N/028 and the Courtyard. If you hear any gossip or just want to say hi – come up to us in the main room! We’re in front of the piano…
Reporting tonight will be Adam Coe, Daniel Goddard, Megan Graham, Milana Knezevic, Maddy Potts, Katy Roberts, Will Thorman, Paul Virides with photos by Ruth Gibson and Oliver Todd.
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Maybe there would be more people if the YUSU Facebook group hadn’t been created *today*
Actually am nervous and excited! :P
Why is the guy in the Arthur looking depressed photo cheering into his left ear after he just lost. That is quite mean.
Cannot lie, this is epic: http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5292/5494995673_112c9b7eea.jpg
Re: 10.43pm
I think that was taken after the first round, it’s a friend of his so don’t think it was for the final result!!
“BNOC Jason Rose tells Vision that he’s very excited about tonight and he thinks the President is going to be the closest race in years!”
Clever lad. Closest Pres election since 1998.
Results were fit, but Milana is still fitter.
Re: Anon
That’s correct, it’s my photo and it was taken at one point when it appeared Arthur may have been ahead.
And, Re: 10:48pm,
Cheers.
Nice blog & photos. Fan.
I hate my life…
All male sabb team. Oh dear.
An all-male sabb team isn’t too surprising when only two out of thirteen sabb candidates are female. Even across sabb and part-time positions combined, less than a third of the candidates were female. Under-representation of women is an issue across all levels of government (only 22 percent of members of the current Parliament are female), but that doesn’t mean that YUSU can’t do better. I had a quick look, and can’t find any active policy relating to improving representation (though I might be wrong). YUSU should definitely be trying to improve the number of female candidates in its next elections.
Any suggestions Alex? I’m not too sure how you encourage women to run.