Undergraduate Student Government's four campuses announced the results of the 2021 USG elections for executive tickets and Senate positions Thursday.
READ MORE: The 2021 USG elections guide
USG Tempe
USG elections switched to ranked choice voting this year, as it eliminated the need for runoff elections, which have caused problems in the past, Joshua Valenzuela, the assistant USG elections commissioner for the Tempe campus, said over a Zoom call Thursday.
This led to a recalculation and reversal the day after results were announced.
The executive ticket with Kate Hostal for president, Alexander Lewis for vice president of service and Aidan Sigmund for vice president of policy won for USGT on Thursday, but after the Hopkins ticket, with John Hopkins for president, Taryn Quigley for vice president of policy and Torie Hayes for vice president of service, contested the results Friday, the Election Commission reevaluated and declared the Hopkins ticket the winner.
READ MORE: New USGT executive ticket winner declared after recalculation
Marco Huerta and Sophia Chez won the two seats for Barrett, the Honors College.
Alexia Roberts, Harikrishna Kommineni, Andrew Kalthoff and Jake Hohu won the four seats for the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.
Izaac Mansfield won the sole seat for the College of Global Futures.
Kaiah Brown won the sole seat for the College of Health Solutions.
Lydia Grawe took one of the two seats for the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts.
Jasmine Perez, Hannah Grace Berryman, Brenden Castellanos, Astika Joshi and Konya Saidu won the five seats for the The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Rachel Porche, Aaron Goldschmidt, Sterling Sourk and Saam Zadeh won the four seats for the W. P. Carey School of Business.
The single seats for the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts and for the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College remain vacant.
USG Downtown Phoenix
The executive ticket with Renuka Vemuri for president, Lex Weber for vice president of service and Spencer Van McClure for vice president of policy won, as announced in the election results on Taylor Mall.
The rest of the Senate positions won uncontested elections.
Breon Robinson won the one of the two seats for the College of Health Solutions.
Dane Van Wagenen and Lance Israel Lim won the two seats for the Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation.
Evan Lis won one of the two seats for the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Natalie Murphy and Shea D.K. Johnson won the two seats for the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions.
The two seats for Barrett, the Honors College, the College of Integrative Sciences and the Arts and Herberger Institute of Design and the Arts remain vacant.
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USG Polytechnic
The executive ticket with Cecilia Alcantar for president, Jake Okun for vice president of service and Emanuella Ntim for vice president of policy won.
The rest of the Senate positions ran uncontested.
Laura Roty took one of the two seats for the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.
Jessica Quesada took one of the two seats for W. P. Carey School of Business.
Two seats for Barrett, the Honors College, two seats for the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, two seats for Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College and three at-large seats remain vacant.
USG West
The executive ticket with Elizabeth Chilton for president, Hailey Gilles for vice president of service and Ally Hughes for vice president of policy ran uncontested.
Bethany Rocha, Abigail Spencer and Michelle Gradillas won three of the four seats for the New College.
Denise Morales won one of the two seats for W. P. Carey School of Business.
Jessica-Lynn Pagliuca won the seat for Barrett, the Honors College.
Tyler McClary won the one seat for Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College.
One seat for the Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation, one seat for the College of Health Solutions, one seat for the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions and one seat for the Thunderbird School of Global Management remain vacant.
Reporters Reagan Priest, Olivia McCann and Marty Ley contributed to the reporting of this article.
Editor's Note: This article was updated April 2, 2021, at 9 p.m. to reflect the Election Commission's vote recalculation in the USG Tempe executive ticket race.
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Morgan Fischer is the politics editor, she works with her desk to cover topics related to politics in the ASU community. She has previously worked as an intern for RightThisMinute.
