Jon Heavey '97, a 21-year-old engineering major from Buffalo, N.Y., swept the elections for Student Assembly president, winning 51.4 percent of the votes cast, almost three times as many votes as his closest competitor.
Chris Swift '98, a 20-year-old history major and education minor from Hollis, N.H., was elected Assembly vice president by a narrow margin, earning 31.2 percent of votes.
Student elections were held last week, but because of a computer error, which lost an unknown number of votes cast by freshmen for Assembly vice president, the results of the Assembly presidential race were withheld until a supplementary vice presidential election could be held this week.
Results from all the on-line Assembly elections were released just after 8 p.m. last night by the Election Advisory Committee.
Heavey said last night he is "incredibly excited" and wants to do "a lot of work now to get things lined up for the fall."
He said he is meeting with current Assembly President Jim Rich '96 soon to "learn the ins and outs of what [Rich] has to do to run an effective Assembly."
Heavey, who transferred to Dartmouth last year from Carnegie-Mellon University, rows on the men's heavyweight crew team.
Heavey received 809 of the 1,574 votes cast for Assembly president. Sarah Cho '97 came in second with 300 votes.
Scott Rowekamp '97 came in third in the presidential race with 130 votes, and Steve Salemi '97 came in fourth with 128 votes.
Salemi, who was elected to be an at-large member for the Assembly, said he is "hoping to work on some of the issues [he] researched during the campaign."
Heavey "has good ideas," Salemi said. "Students want to see things that will impact their lives."
Presidential write-in candidate Carlos Osorio '99 earned 82 votes, and his running mate Corby Kelly '99, who also ran as a write-in candidate, received 59 votes.
Unai Montes-Irueste '98, the candidate who last week announced he would not seek the Assembly presidency, received 60 votes.
Swift is a brother at Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, a member of the Collis Governing Board, an Assembly member and chair of its ad hoc committee on pre-major advising. He also sings with the Cords a cappella group and the Chamber Singers.
Swift said he is "grateful" to have won this election, "because a lot of good people put a lot of time into this election and made a really large commitment to me and my ideas."
"This summer I want to work to lay the foundation for [Heavey] in the fall," Swift said.
Swift said the vice presidential race was about "experience versus leadership."
He said the vice president is the person who runs the internal organization of the Assembly. He said the vice president does not need to have the knowledge of the constitution that other candidates stressed during the campaign because the new Assembly constitution created a separate position of a parliamentarian.
Meredith Epstein '97, who ran for vice president as a write-in candidate, narrowly lost the election, receiving 28.1 percent of the vote with a total of 279, only 30 votes fewer than Swift.
Third place in the vice presidential race went to Bill Kartalopoulos '97, who received 194 votes, and Joan Ai '98 received 124 votes, coming in fourth place.
All three ballot candidates for vice president, Ai , Kartalopoulos and Swift, said they were disappointed the elections had to be reheld.
Ai said she thought the second election was "poorly advertised," and said she would have liked to see the results from the first election to see how the extra week affected the outcome.
Kartalopoulos said, "The fact it was a revote had an effect on the results."
"I had a definite down surge in support," Kartalopoulos said. "This is apparent by the fact that I received roughly the same number of votes in last week's general election as today."
Swift said he "probably did not do as well the second time around because fewer people were aware an election was happening."
"Elections aren't won, they are earned," Swift said. "And they are earned one person at a time."
At-large members elected to the Assembly from the Class of 1997 are Dave Evans, Nadine Haig, Kristofer Jadd, Kartalopoulos, Carol Lee, Nina Nho, Alison Schram and Salemi.
Assembly members from the Class of 1998 will be Ai, Rachel Gilliar, Ben Hill, Jim Horowitz, Mario Martinus, Montes-Irueste, Jay Park and Neeta Raghavan.
Members of the Class of 1999 elected to next year's Assembly are Kate Berkeley, Case Dorkey, Frode Eilertsen, Scott Jacobs, Katie Kirwan, Rex Morey, Jonah Sonnenborn and David Sussman.
