jov as editor? pssh. that's the acc spam helping.

is that line up a joke?

Rubbish!! Getting worse each year!!!

what does this mean?

Eliminations for President:

what does this mean?

Eliminations for President:

The order in which they were eliminated (RON, then Diogo etc...)

Interesting to note that Matthews was leading for 3 of the 5 rounds...got screwed over by the 2nd preference votes (from Ed) it appears...

All the people voted in are c**ts apart from Lilly Topman.

I think post 7 is playing the opposite game!

Could we have had a worse Sabb team? It is Christian I feel most sorry for. Surely someone was playing a game of pin the tail on the donkey when they made this choice!

meh. i demand a recount lol.

I think that Jen deserved to win and will do a good job. It was only really going to be her, Jon or Luke. Ed and Diogo could not really compete against them, although Ed tried his best and put in a lot of effort. As far as I can tell Luke did no campaigning and paid the price. Jon is quite unlucky, but Jen working hard to gain the transfer votes paid off. Congratulations to her.

DPCS - I thought that John would win, and am quite suprised to see him bow out so quickly. However, all candidates did do a lot of campaigning, full credit to them all. One concern I do have about Lily is that at hustings she seemed to have a lot of ideas about things, but did not seem to have the knowledge about the practicalities. It is one thing to get elected, but another to do things.

DPEW - Both would have done a good job, but somebody has to be unlucky.

DPFS - A lot has been said about Christian. I am not filled with confidence by him, but he deserves a chance. It is really up to him how he handles it. Does he really know what he is letting himself in for?

On the upside at least we have a decent felix editor to feed all the news and F*ck-ups to the masses.

I think Jov may have been handed a golden opportunity to make felix really good next year (plus Jen promised not to interfere)!

Lily doesn't know anything about how to make things happen in the union. Nice one, voters, you've picked a really good candidate *snarls*. Either of the other two would have done a wonderful job. Lily just annoys people.

Pleased Jov won - he will make a very good editor.

Jen will make a good president, I hope, and Hannah a good DPEW. Christian may well surprise us all!

When oh when can we sell off the sports clubs to College and then begin making the Union devoid of bigotry and buggery?

I like the team. We have a leader, an expert on clubs, a good writer and some one who cares about students welfare. These people had stiff competition. That seem quite sound. Am I the only one that thinks that?

The trouble is, I hear rumour that people were voting for Lily because they wanted her out of their hair. Although she needs to be able to bollock clubs, she also needs to read papers before she turns up at meetings and actually talk to them nicely on occasion.

Matthews deserved to win it, he was the only one who really seemed to care about it and put in a decent campaign. It just goes to show that elections are not decided by policy or ability but rather popularity, sex and empty promises. All in all, I'm glad I won't be here to see how much of a mess they make of the Union next year.

Hannah only won because she's a hot girl, Jov only won because he's a rugby 1st team, Christian only won because he was the only one standing. F**K I'M GLAD I'M LEAVING

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of democracy. She passed away quietly in the night when people stopped listening to reason and started voting on looks and popularity.

Grow up and spit out the sour grapes. Turnout was high so it is a bit silly to be lamenting the death of democracy. Well done to all the successful candidates!

Observer

Jov is a lovely guy and deserved to win! Last time I checked the rugby 1st didn't have 700 plus people.

Craziness... Jov got voted in because anyone who knows him, or looks at the sports section knows he'll do a brilliant job and will work like a bitch to get a good issue out every week. It's good that he's popular and knows plenty of people around the union because he'll get people involved in Felix- which is the point of a student newspaper, it's not just for the amusement and ego of a few hacks...

Oh shut up with the hack bashing, there aren't any real hacks left and most of the people you guys seem to think are hacks, probably voted for Jov anyway.

New faces.

Same promises

No results.

Prove me wrong.

Oh hai there

Congratulations to Jov for winning, and thanks to the 804 people who also voted for me!

I'm sure Jov will be a great editor next year and as for the website and the archives, I'll be happy to lend a hand getting it done before I graduate.

But... most importantly...

SHOCK, HORROR! An election that appears to have passed off with a relatively minimal amount of farce??!!

This is surely an ICU first...

I don't think that Hannah just won because she's hot, she has done loads of really visible things around college (SHAG week, ethical careers fair, green week). I'm sure that Ryan has done loads of other things aswell (IQ etc.) but not that many people would be aware of it. Both of them would have done a good job, one of them had to lose.

If Luke Taylor had won by a very small margin, the mailing list affair might have resurfaced.....

Disappointing though. The farce is the best part.

More bitching please! I'm bored - and theres nothing on the tele

I can't indulge you I am afraid. The result is exactly what I voted for!

I can understand voting for each of the candidates as individuals, but it seems a rather strange team to pick... I wonder how many people picked this exact combo?

I had my reasons and I only refer to the Sabs, not NUS delegates. I can't say I would have put Camilla in there...isn't there a guy missing off that list?

Liz! Me too! :D :D :D

Apart from NUS delegates, obviously I didn't vote chris last :-(

I don't agree that Hannah won cus she is ho.. because she aint really hot- id say she's an 'alright'. but she will do a good job of that im sure!

Why was there no fuss about the use of mailing lists last year? I for one recieved numerouse emails from Cott due to being a club officer, and I'd never even met the SOB.

I think Jov won becuase he's actually pavarotti, look at that photo and tell me it isn't true!

Also - is the guy next to the wall behind him in the picture crying?

I don't think there's much point dwelling over the results. You vote someone wins and it's probably no worse than the last year. What I would say is that this election is proof that we need to review the Single Transferable Vote system! Too few people understand it and also should we really elect a president based on them being "most peoples second favourite"? Shouldn't there be more weight attached to being the first choice on someone's list! Almost 50% of Jen's votes were 'second best'. I Say second best should be, at best, half as valuable.

I'll be honest, I don't understant how the above comment would be relevent.

1) Jen did get a large number of transferable votes

but

So did Jon Matthews

Say we take your system on your number (you say 50% were transfer = 500 vote were transfered and 500 vote were first choice)

In your way Jen gets 50% of those 500 = 250

therfore Jen gets 500 + 250 = 750

Jon got in total 821 of which we will be really nice and say only 200 were transfered (I dont have the real numbers) (200 / 2 = 100) thus we minus 100

Thus using you system

Jon gets 721 vote and Jen gets 750

thus Jen wins

(is my maths off)

Jon Matthews had 183 votes transferred.

Jen Morgan had 429 votes transferred.

Jon won the first round with 628 votes

Jen had 582 in the first round.

Jon continued to be int he lead in the 2nd round with 650 votes to Jens 599 - Jen gets 150 votes transferred from Ed Hughes supporters. Jen further gets 200 votes transferred from the tactical votes of the ACC who hate Jon Matthews. Good thing or bad thing hmmmm who cares its over!

http://www.imperialcollegeunion.org/news/sabbatical-elections-2008-results,210,ICUNS.html

Jon knew he wouldn't get transfer votes and planned his campaign accordingly.

Jen new she would and planned her campaign accordingly.

They both played the game and Jen won, end of.

Thanks for the numbers. Before I was simply replying to cynics new propsal just to say that it would not have changed the result.

I argee with #42, but I would point out that all candidates tried to get the top vote. I'm actually suprised at how far Luke Taylor got given he didn't campaign. No offence intened.

I'm not disagreeing with using STV, using this system we elect the candidate most people are willing to accept as president, but it doesn't change the fact that more people actually wanted Jon to be president as their first choice.

I seem to remember someone telling me Sci-fi spent an evening in the bar proving that if everyone voted for the person they least wanted to be president (and still had STV) we could achieve the same result, maybe we should adopt this next year?

PS. Luke did campaign he just didn't have posters it was a "viral" campaign as he put it.

I've added a chart to the "President" section of this article which may be of interest...

So it was dieogo and luke's spare votes that pulled it off. However, it was Jen's broader appeal that produced the result.

Ashley, sorry to bother you but could up make a graph for the DPCS. I would really like to see the rounds played out.

They didn't play out - Lily was 200ish ahead of Jess in the first round, and 200ish ahead at the end of the second round. Lily and Jess both got about the same number of votes when RON and JJ were eliminated in the first round.

Nice one.

Everyone knows that Jov is infact a grizzly bear from the forests of eastern europe, raised by a kind preist and his wife as their own son.

did you people know that Jov paints rather well?

Congrats Ashley and Victoria!