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TUESDAY 12th MARCH 2013 ISSUE 75

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THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF QUEEN MARY STUDENTS’ UNION

SU ELECTIONS RESULTS

ALL THE RESULTS AND ANALYSIS FROM THE QM ELECTIONS, P.10

Sarah Sarwar storms SU elections

Sarah Sarwar is congratulated by supporters after her win was announced last Thursday. Image by Lloyd Ramos

Lloyd Ramos Sarah Sarwar has been elected to be the Student Union President for 2013-2014, defeating Josh Snape, Ollie Brown, Paddy Ford and Siobhan Banful. With the polls closing last Thursday, Sarwar secured 944 votes versus Snape’s 711 votes to win in the fifth stage of the count. Out of Queen Mary’s 16,708 UK based students, 2733 voted, meaning that there was a 16.36% turnout.

NEWS

The 2012 elections saw 2749 students voting. The results were announced at a special elections party in Drapers on the 7th of March. In her victory speech, Sarwar thanked her supporters for helping her over the course of the past month, as well as opponents for being worthy candidates. Sarwar’s key policies include a more involved careers service, more financially accessible sports clubs, support for societies and a campaign to keep

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the West Smithfield library open. These polices along with other candidate manifestos were questioned at hustings in Whitechapel and Mile End. Second place candidate Josh Snape, campaigned on the New Chapter slate, which also included Sean Richardson and Jannat Hossain running for VP Welfare and VP Education respectively. Sarwar’s Open Union slate proved to be the most successful of the slates in re-

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gards to executive officer positions, with Gabby Dale Leal winning out over James Grant for the VP Education position in the third stage of the count. Maverick’s Katarina Nordanger was elected for the VP Welfare position after the fourth stage of the count despite trailing behind Open Union’s Haris Shafi in the previous stages of the count. Nevertheless, it seems that the friendly, easy to understand branding of the Open Union slate was a

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success compared to the others despite not being as slick as Maverick or as aggressive as New Chapter. Ali Jawad won the VP Barts position after running uncontested. Union paid Executive Officers represent and work in the interest on Queen Mary students, running campaigns on their behalf and directing the Union in how it should be run to suit student needs. Results breakdown on page 10

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