Casey Dennis ’15 and Frank Cunnningham ’16 were elected Student Assembly president and vice president on Monday. Dennis garnered 930 votes, 281 votes ahead of write-in candidate Sophia Pedlow ’15, according to a press release from the Election Planning and Advisory Committee. A total of 2,376 people cast ballots in this year’s election, an increase of 531 from last year.
Pedlow received 649 votes; Jay Graham ’15, 609 votes; Yesuto Shaw ’15, 340 votes; and Jon Miller ’15, 265 votes.
Cunningham, who ran on a ticket with Dennis, swept the vice presidential election with 1,108 votes, 473 votes ahead of Matt Robinson ’15, who ran with Graham.Harry Qi ’17, who ran with Miller, received 240 votes.
Chase Mertz ’15 was elected 2015 Class Council president. Danny Reitsch ’16 and Victor Muchatuta ’16 will serve as 2016 Class Council president and vice president, respectively. Paul Ghazal ’17 and Elisabeth Schricker ’17 will serve as 2017 Class Council president and vice president.
Janelle Bullock ’15, Taylor Cathcart ’15, Chase Gilmore ’16, Grant Mortell ’16, Muchatuta, Daniel Pham ’16, Julia Pomerantz ’16 and Andrew Zhu ’16 were elected to serve on the Committee on Standards or Organizational Adjudication Committee.
Since 2011, the Elections Planning and Advisory Committee have used an approval voting system to conduct Assembly elections.
Elections were held from midnight to 8 p.m. Monday.
Miller and Muchatuta are members of The Dartmouth opinion staff. Cunningham is a member of The Dartmouth business staff. Dennis is a former member of The Dartmouth staff.
