Friday 01-12-2023 - 15:29

From 10am on Tuesday 28th November to 6pm on Thursday 30th November, students from across the University voted for who will represent them on the Students’ Union’s Trustee Board and at the NUS National Conference in April 2024.

 

Over our Michaelmas Elections, 1944 students cast 14120 votes.  

Results of the Election for Student Trustee

There were five candidates for the one available position of Student Trustee. Students were also able to vote for Re-Open Nominations. The candidates were:

• Ariana Dell
• Connor Winter 
• Nikitha Suthram Rajesh 
• Noah Katz 
• Rithik Kumar

After preferential votes were counted, Ariana Dell was elected.  

Read the full break-down of votes here.

Results of the Election for NUS Delegates 2023/24

There were fourteen candidates for the five available positions of NUS Delegate, students were also able to vote for Re-Open Nominations. The candidates were:

• Benjamin Carter
• Cerys Evans
• Chaitra Krishna
• Connor Winter
• Huseyn Guliyev
• Josh Newsham
• Kishore Sivakumar 
• Matthew Lamb
• Nathan Mooney
• Noah Katz 
• Oliver Mulcahy
• Santi Siabato
• Thomas Willis 
• Tom Cross

The National Union of Students (NUS) requires delegations to be made up of at least 50% women+ delegates. LUSU sends 6 delegates to NUS National Conference: five elected NUS Delegates and the VP Union Development. This meant that this time, 3 of the 5 elected positions were reserved for women+ candidates. The remaining 2 positions were open to all candidates.

To meet this requirement, candidates were asked to complete a diversity questionnaire and the count was undertaken in two parts.

Part 1: Women+ Candidates

The 3 reserved women+ positions were contested by the declared women+ candidates: Cerys Evans, Chaitra Krishna, Noah Katz, Tom Cross, with the addition of Re-Open Nominations.

After preferential votes were counted, Cerys Evans, Noah Katz, and Tom Cross were elected.

Part 2: Open Candidates

The 2 remaining positions were contested by the unsuccessful women+ candidates and all other candidates: Benjamin Carter, Chaitra Krishna, Connor Winter, Huseyn Guliyev, Josh Newsham, Kishore Sivakumar, Matthew Lamb, Nathan Mooney, Oliver Mulcahy, Santi Siabato, Thomas Willis, with the addition of Re-Open Nominations.

After preferential votes were counted, Josh Newsham and Nathan Mooney were elected.  

The Lancaster NUS National Conference Delegation for 2023/24 is:

• Harrison Stewart (lead delegate)
• Cerys Evans
• Josh Newsham
• Nathan Mooney
• Noah Katz
• Tom Cross   

Read the full break-down of votes here:

Women+ Count Sheet: NUS Delegate Elections

Open Count Sheet: NUS Delegate Elections

Thank you to everyone who nominated themselves and voted in this exciting, well-contested election.