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Spring 2026 Election Results & Tabulation Process

Vote Count

- Initial vote count: 5544

- Eligible vote count: 5333*

- Turnout: 15.09%

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*Votes from people who aren’t fee-paying students, duplicate votes, votes cast outside of the permitted time frame, & entirely blank ballots (no vote for referendum, rep, or exec) were removed.

Executive Election

Winner (1st choice/reapportioned)

- SUMMIT (2250/2993)

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Vote totals after transfers/eliminations.

Representative-at-Large Election

Winners (1st choice/reapportioned)

- Isabel Alvarado (909/947)

- Bridget Lombillo (789/947)

- Owen Andrews (667/918)

- Charlie Murphy (560/803)

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Vote totals after transfers/eliminations.

Referendum

Result: Passed

- Yes: 4506

- No: 171

- Students strongly supported expanding the right for faculty, staff, and student workers to unionize and collectively bargain. Of those who voted on the referendum, 96% voted yes.

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Tabulation (Reps)

- Votes were counted using a proportional ranked choice or single transferable vote model. In this model, a winning threshold is determined using the Droop Quota. For the Rep election, the threshold was determined to be 947.

- If a candidate passes this threshold, they are elected and their excess votes (>947) will be redistributed proportionally to the next preferences on those votes.

- After these votes are redistributed, we will check to see if another candidate has passed this threshold. If not, the candidate with the least votes will be eliminated and their votes will be redistributed to their next choices.

- This process proceeds until 4 candidates pass the threshold, or only 4 candidates remain after eliminations.

- Read more here: https://fairvote.org/archives/multi_winner_rcv_example/

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Tabulation (Execs)

- The process is largely the same for Execs but there is only 1 winner so the threshold to win is simply 50% + 1 votes.