The Winter 2012 ASUCD Elections were held between February 21st at 8am through February 24th at 8am. Six Senators were elected along with the President and Vice President. There were 15 candidates competing for 6 senate seats, and two executive tickets running. Voting took place, as always, at http://elections.ucdavis.edu.

The CoHo debate for Senate candidates was scheduled for Monday, February 13th from 11AM-1PM. The CoHo debate for Executive tickets was scheduled for Tuesday, February 14th from 12PM-1PM. The ballot measure debate was also currently scheduled for February 14th.

Rebecca Sterling & Yena Bae bested Bree Rombi & Amy Martin for the Executive Office.

The senatorial winners were: Beatriz Anguiano of the SMART slate; and independents Paul Min, Bradley Bottoms, Kabir Kapur, Don Gilbert, and Joyce Han.

Bizarro World

Imagine a world without Choice Voting. Or one in which the person who gets the most last place votes is sent to participate in a battle royale of hunger games. Welcome to ASUCD Election Bizarro World.

All of the usual disclaimers apply, about how voter behavior would be different if they were in a pick-6 system, etc.

Top 6

If voters had elected their top 6 choices instead, the winners would be...

Votes(Top 6)
Name
1650
Joyce Han
1533
Donkeyonta Gilbert
1527
Bradley Bottoms
1300
Jaki (Jacklyn) Joanino
1281
Paul Min
1107
Marcus King
1090
Beatriz Anguiano
978
Chucha (Jose) Marquez
952
Kabir Kapur
940
Norman Borgonia
919
Desun Oka
812
Dylan Schaefer
646
Patrick Devlin
510
Colten Ellison Saunders
365
Jonathan Soo Hoo

Most Hated

People who ranked their ballots all the way down to the 15th place voted for a candidate who will mathematically never receive their vote. For those who come up last, they become the Most Hated Person on Campus — a badge of honor for some.

Votes(Last)
Name
178
Jonathan Soo Hoo
63
Marcus King
56
Patrick Devlin
50
Paul Min
44
Chucha (Jose) Marquez
41
Joyce Han
40
Norman Borgonia
39
Colten Ellison Saunders
38
Kabir Kapur
37
Bradley Bottoms
34
Jaki (Jacklyn) Joanino
30
Dylan Schaefer
28
Donkeyonta Gilbert
26
Desun Oka
13
Beatriz Anguiano

Condorcet Winner

The Condorcet winner (the least objectionable candidate) of this election was Joyce Han.

Endorsements

Breaking with tradition, The California Aggie did not endorse any candidates in this election and instead wrote evaluations of the candidates based on interviews done by the Aggie editorial board.

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