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About half the College freshman class turned out to vote on Tuesday for this year’s 2012 leadership, and after a short hiccup created by switching over to a new electronic voting system (Miami-Dade here we come?) results are out! The REAL Party – headed up by President Erik Kogut and VP Hannah Wilentz – won with 34 percent of the vote, beating out their closest rivals, Mason Fitch and Cindy Pan of Vision 2012, by a comfortable 14 points.
It’s a surprise win over the early-peaking New York Connection, which came out narrowly ahead about three weeks ago in the Facebook Primary (and REAL didn’t even have a website – see their platform here). Rounding out the Kogut-Wilentz administration are Reps Diego Arango of the REAL Party, Akito Terasaki of Candor, and Sarah Chai of Vision 2012.
This year for the first time, first-years were able to indicate their choices of President and Vice President separately. Although the votes were then totaled for the final results – meaning that candidates of different parties could never end up in the same administration, a la Obama-Palin – it does shed additional light on the popularity contest. In this case, Kogut actually won 38 percent of presidential votes, while Wilentz only garnered 31 percent.
“We’re trying to pick up as much of the student body wants,” explained Elections Board chairman James Bogner.
– LBD
Full results posted after the jump.
President
187 | Erik Kogut
121 | Mason Fitch
105 | Rolando Rodriguez
61 | Gavin Newton-Tanzer
22 | Sahil Gupta
Vice President
154 | Hannah Wilentz
115 | Cindy Pan
98 | Alice Zhang
94 | Jasmine Senior
31 | Saahil Patel
Representatives
169 | Diego Arango
137 | Akito Terasaki
134 | Sarah Chai
128 | Kenny Durell
121 | Keith Miao
103 | Susan Thomas
97 | Brandon Chrisotphe
95 | Alana Tung
78 | Noruwa Agho
55 | Holly Dykstra
32 | Suhaydee Tejeda
28 | Syed Hossain
24 | Sanjiv Mehta
21 | Richard Huang
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@... lmao cindy pans such a whore
@Anonymous The Real Party has quite the comprehensive platform that they have to live up to, especially since the entire party’s elected there’s no excuse. The twelves are either gonna have one hell of a year or there’s gonna be some booing spring 2009 (if anyone gives a crap)
@olderguy student councils don’t have nearly as much sway as they lead you to think during campaigning. Also they’re taking on a most ferociously red-tape-happy administration. It’s like feeding children to the lions… wait a minute…
And because I’m a creepy history geek, Hannah is Princeton historian Sean Wilentz’s (CC ’72) daughter. Good job making the right choice Hannah!
…the only reason I know about him is because you can’t take a Foner class without reading Wilentz.
@Anonymous What the hell’s a Sean Udell?
@Kid Believe you me, you don’t even want to know. The likes of him are just, just…disgusting.
@as much as the expression on erik kogut’s face in the posters just made him exponentially punchable, i do have to admit Real Party’s posters were pretty damn good
@Hey Bwog your link to their platform doesn’t work.
k thnx
@sev they had the best posters, of course they won
@Oh yeah? I DEMAND A RECOUNT!
@Rey Carlos Well, I did.
@I heart Hannah Wilentz and her ambiguously oriented male friends.
@The King of Spain I did not approve this allegedly Real party.
@Hugo Chavez Por que no te callas?
@oh.hello.there YAY FOR THE REAL PARTY!
I yelled out loud when I saw this, so glad they won.
@diego arango this year’s sean udell?
@... VERY RARE for a 3-party team to win a CCSC election… hasn’t happened in recent years…