Tim Ngwena has won the position of YUSU President for the second year in a row.He becomes the first person to hold the position of YUSU president for two years.
He beat favourite candidate Oliver Hutchings, who had won the official exit poll as well as coming top of polls for Vision and Nouse. Although there were five rounds of voting, with the final vote between Ngwena and Hutchings, it became clear from the first round that Ngwena had the most support and would defy the polls.
Last year, a similar shock result came after favourite Tom Langrish was beaten by Ngwena, despite every poll predicting a Langrish win.
Ngwena said: “I never saw it coming,” but admitted he had planned to run for a second year for nearly a year.
YUSU Election Results, 2010, in full:
President – Tim Ngwena
Democracy & Services – Dan Walker
Student Activities – Nick Scarlett
Welfare – Laura Bo
Academic Affairs – Ben Humphrys
York Sports President – Sam Asfahani
Non-sabbatical positions:
Campaigns – Luke David Sandford & Suzy Dodd
YUM Chair – Chris Young
Racial Equality – Mandi Madavo & Winnie Amoaku
Women’s Officer – Janey Stephenson & Charlotte Phillips
LGBT – Tom Martin & Nell Beecham
Entertainments – Anthony Richards & Stephen O’Ryan
Environment & Ethics – David Clarke
RAG – James Croydon & Jonathan Hare
21 Plus – Stephen Kenney
NUS Delegates – David Levene & Sam Westrop
Nwgena…
What a joke.
Did nothing this year.
Promises to do nothing next year.
Shame.
I guess there is another year of Tim being the university’s bitch.
You can’t fight democracy. Tim For The Win, Tim For The Win, Tim For The Win
I’m not thrilled about the presidential result, but I’m more concerned about Laura Bo as Welfare officer, she seemed confused and out of her depth in hustings and interviews, Warner-Medley was a much more competent candidate.
Also, Saul and Pickard picking up over 500 votes for Women’s officer despite being banned from campaigning, does this suggest an anti-YUSU backlash or anger about the position of Women’s Officer?
Mandi’s surname spelt ‘Madavo’, not ‘Modavo’.