Following a tight campaign, Niki Boytchuk-Hale, ConEd ’24, will be Queen’s next Rector. She will take over the role from outgoing Rector Owen Crawford-Lem on May 1.
As the first ASUS candidates to run alone instead of in a team, all three received over 80.0 per cent of the confidence vote, despite a historically low voter turnout. Of the 13,008 students eligible to vote, 596 cast an electronic ballot.
Students aren’t running for ASUS Senator positions. Of the six ASUS seats on University Senate, only one candidate is running for a senatorial role, ASUS Governance Officer Piper Veloso confirmed. The three executive positions were uncontested, with low turnout for the debate on Jan. 26.
In the SGPS election, two candidates face off for the position of vice-president (graduate), while the remaining positions of president, vice-president (campaigns and community affairs), vice-president (finance and services), and vice-president (professional) are uncontested, with a sole candidate in each race.