Autumn Elections 2018 Results

Friday 19 October 2018

The Autumn Elections 2018 results have been published following close of voting at noon, Friday 19 October with 229 new student representatives elected across a range of positions. It was a record election which saw  6, 570 students cast their votes for Academic Reps, Wellbeing Reps, Representatives to Council, our LGBT+ Officer and our Constituent Union committees.

This represents 33.14% voter turnout versus 26.75% in 2017, an increase of 1, 455 more voters. This is the highest ever turnout for Autumn Elections at Imperial and considerably higher than the average for these types of elections across Unions in the UK.

Records broken in Autumn Elections 2018

Highest ever Undergrad turnout for Autumn Elections

  • Increase of 10% over last year

Highest ever Postgrad Taught turnout for Autumn Elections

  • Increase of 58% over last year

Highest ever number of Postgrad Taught voters and second highest turnout for any major election, second only to the record-breaking Leadership Elections 2016

Highest ever Postgrad Research turnout for Autumn Elections  (increase of 104% over last year - more than double)

  • Almost 1,000 more Postgrad voters overall vs last year

First time the voter turnout has exceeded 30 per cent in Autumn (33.14%) 

More voters than in any Leadership Elections prior to 2015

Well done, Imperial! See all results below.

Vacant Positions 

Bye-elections for unfilled positions in this election will take place over the following dates:

Nominations open: noon, Saturday 27 October 2018
Nominations close and manifesto deadline: noon, Tuesday 30 October 2018 
Voting opens: noon, Tuesday 30 October
Voting closes: noon, Thursday 1 November

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