Geoff Lister/The Ubyssey

The AMS elections have come to a close and the results are in.

5789 students voted in the elections this year, amounting to 11.6 per cent turnout—a 0.6 per cent increase from the 2011 elections.

Matt Parson beat out Ben Cappellacci and Alyssa Koehn for AMS president this year.

Caroline Wong won the VP Administration race against Elaine Kuo.

Kiran Mahal beat out four other candidates, taking the VP Academic and University Affairs position.

Both VP Finance and VP External candidates ran uncontested. Tristan Miller was elected as VP Finance with 3622 votes and Kyle Warwick was elected VP External with 3161 votes.

Elected to the five senate seats were Justin Yang, Kiran Mahal, Katherine Tyson, Montana Hunter and Barnabas Caro.

Incumbent Sumedha Sharma and current VP Administration Mike Silley were elected the Board of Governors student representatives.

Two slates ran in this year’s Student Legal Fund Society race for six seats. The Students for Responsible Leadership slate took five seats, electing Maria Cirstea, Jordan Stewart, Aaron Sihota, Jordan MacLean and Sandy Buchanan. One candidate from the Student Progressive Action Network, Greg Williams, was elected.

Two referendum questions passed, while the other two didn’t reach quorum.

The question regarding a $3.88 reduction in the Student Spaces Fund fee and a $1 UBC Ombuds fee passed. The sale of three pieces of the AMS Art Collection also passed.

The sale of Whistler Lodge and the question regarding entrenchment of the AMS Endowment Fund in the AMS bylaws didn’t reach quorum and therefore didn’t pass.

Voter Funded Media results had both UBC Insiders and AMS Confidential tied, each receiving 36 per cent ($360) of the money allocated to the contest, while Tyler’s Blog won $280.

VP Admin

Caroline Wong – 3053 votes
Elaine Kuo – 552 votes

VP Finance

Tristan Miller acclaimed
3622 votes Yes
542 votes No

VP External

Kyle Warwick acclaimed
3161 votes Yes
672 votes No

Senate

5 elected Senators:
Justin Yang – 2078 votes
Kiran Mahal – 2033 votes
Katherine Tyson – 1991 votes
Montana Hunter – 1683 votes
Barnabas Caro – 1449 votes

Not elected:
Dawei Ji – 1401 votes
Maleleh Noghrekar (withdrew, but still on ballot) – 399 votes

Board of Governors

2 elected representatives:
Mike Silley – 1464 votes
Sumedha Sharma – 1377 votes

Not elected:
Erik MacK – 1283 votes
Matt Parson – 1184 votes
Justin Yang – 820 votes
Tagg Jefferson – 817 votes
Sean Cregten – 671 votes

SLFS

6 elected directors:
Maria Cirstea (SRL) – 1226 votes
Jordan Steward (SRL) – 1081 votes
Aaron Sihota (SRL) – 990 votes
JJ MacLean (SRL) – 959 votes
Sandy Buchanan (SRL) – 942 votes
Gregory Williams (SPAN) – 872 votes

Not elected:
Arielle Friedman (SPAN) – 858 votes
Jannel Robertson (SPAN) – 851 votes
Alissa Westergard-Thorpe (SPAN) – 822 votes
Arran Walshe (SPAN) – 785 votes
James Pettit (SRL) – 718 votes
Nai N. Louza (SPAN) – 567 votes

Ubyssey Publication Society President

Oliver Thorne elected by acclamation
3224 votes Yes
0 votes No

Ubyssey Publication Society Board

Luka Bogdanovic, Sandy Buchanan, Imran Habib and Federico Ziza elected
by acclamation
3188 votes Yes
0 votes No

Referendum Questions

1: Change in AMS fees

Yes – 3966 votes
No – 1082 votes
Skip (No Vote) – 741 votes
Question passes

2: Creation of AMS endowment fund

Yes – 3080 votes
No – 789 votes
Skip (No Vote) – 1920 votes
Question fails to meet quorum

3: Allowing sale of Whistler Lodge

Yes – 2512 votes
No – 2466 votes
Skip (No Vote) – 811 votes
Question fails to meet quorum

4: Allowing sale of 3 art pieces

Yes – 4166 votes
No – 808 votes
Skip (No Vote) – 815 votes

For the rest of the election numbers, check https://ams.simplyvoting.com/index.php?mode=results&election=3470

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