ULSU Elections 2012 (Voting Thursday March 22)

Wow! For only 3 positions there's a large difference in votes cast for each position.

What was the total number students who logged on and cast a vote?

wnolan1992 wrote: »

Surprised at how big a margin Moursey won by... but I think the right candidate may have won this.

Rockett's win was no surprise. Better campaign, more confident, more experience.

Sickeningly close for Welfare. Really surprised that Jennings' transfers went to Ronan to be honest. Thought for sure Kelly had it when he was being eliminated. C'est la vie I guess.


Didn't quite catch the figures for previous years, how does it compare? I know there were ~3800 votes last year, but is 2355 the lowest for some time? Disappointing turnout but hardly surprising given the level of apathy around the place.

na it was lower than 2355 in previous years down to around 1800 some years

highlydebased wrote: »

2355

So everyone who logged in to vote voted for president?

wnolan1992 wrote: »

Yeah, just looking at the figures now.

Lower than 2011 and 2010, but up on all years before that except '03 when the boathouse referendum was held. I'd say tis the lowest online poll though?

You have to remember that online voting, which was introduced last year, increases the potential turn out. So the turn out this year is considerably worse than a similar turnout when voting was by paper ballot.

I'm finding Kelly's hissy fit on facebook quite humorous.

Kelly for usi president

Oxford_ wrote: »

I'm finding Kelly's hissy fit on facebook quite humorous.

Stop being a dick

Hear a lot of people groaning that the su is finished, i don't know much about them but at least give them a chance.

This vote has showen me something nobody gives a **** about the SU.
Also next year doesn't look too good.

Hey guys,

First off thanks to each and every one of you that voted for me.

To the people that doubt/doubted me, its my goal to change your opinion of me. I'm going to give this Union 100%, it deserves nothing less. I was annoyed/disappointed with the low voter turnout but given the past week I somewhat expected it as there has been a sombre mood around campus. This attitude is what I'm going to change - The Union needs change, it needs a change in attitudes both from the Students and from the Union. As I said it last night, we need to get the Union back to the grassroots and realise we are Student Representatives and that our first job is to represent the students in the best way possible. It is imperative that the new team can connect with students from the offset to create a strong relationship, one that didn't exist this year.

Adam

Fair play to Adam, Paddy, and most of all Cathal! Really had a good feeling today that he'd do it and it couldn't have been any tighter!

Tbh I was surprised the margin between Paddy and Jackie was as close as it was, obviously Jackie and her team did a great job in rallying voters to her side. Fair play to her on that.

Fishooks12 wrote: »

Fair play Adam. Hopefully you can follow up on this because it's a huge issue

Our SU elections in comparison to every other University in the country are a joke

Congratulations on the victory

I think if we compare our polling results last year to other colleges then we are right up there but this year I think the week has been extremely affected by having Monday off. Having been involved in the previous 2 elections prior to this, I can safely say this was by far the quietest.

That said, these sort of issues are quite easily fixed. Next year we will take into perspective that Paddy's day will be on the Sunday and as such, the Monday will be a bank holiday again and so we should arrange elections so as they do not occur on the same week again as this really does impact on a candidates ability to both prepare and campaign.

Thanks for the congratulations