Winter 2011   ASUCD Elections
Senate Candidates
BOLD
JEW
Independent
Amy Martin
Eli Yani
Ryan Meyerhoff*
Mayra Martin
F.U.Q.
Edd Montelongo
Brendan Repicky
Caitlin Alday
Arasele Torrez Jimenez
Richard Yu
Miguel Espinoza
Anna-Ruth Crittenden
Jared Crisologo-Smith
Yena Bae
Presidential Tickets
BOLD
Adam Thongsavat & Bree Rombi
*Obtained seat via countback election after Yani resigned

The Winter 2011 ASUCD Elections were held between February 16th at 8am through February 18th at 8am. Six Senators were elected along with the President and Vice President. There were 13 candidates competing for 6 senate seats, and one exec ticket running. This was the first uncontested presidential election in 16 years.

Results

Winners

Executive

Senate

* Senator Meyerhoff was seated in Spring quarter, 2011, after the resignation of Senator Yani.

The California Aggie Election Endorsements

Every election "The Aggie" editors rank their top 6 picks for Senate and the Executives. The Aggie did not make an Executive endorsement as the Presidency/Vice Presidency is unopposed. The ASUCD Senate endorsements are ranked as follows;

1. Eli Yani 2. Ryan Meyerhoff 3. Miguel Espinoza 4. Amy Martin 5. Brendan Repicky 6. Caitlin Alday

Vote Count

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
Amy Martin
317
302
220
178
125
103
47
41
48
37
35
26
19
Anna Ruth Crittenden
213
94
84
80
74
49
71
74
68
68
74
53
26
Arasele Torrez Jiminez
143
134
115
89
68
56
65
56
52
68
78
60
46
Brendan Repicky
359
255
189
152
142
111
54
68
53
30
30
27
26
Caitlin Alday
88
197
156
133
99
57
54
54
63
59
50
80
29
Edd Montelongo
138
146
143
144
83
85
69
78
65
69
43
37
16
Eli Yani
263
134
97
78
67
50
61
49
40
42
38
55
150
Jared Crisologo Smith
217
125
136
142
182
158
83
65
55
51
54
35
18
Mayra Martín
259
190
231
206
171
149
66
57
53
32
32
22
12
Miguel Espinoza
181
189
135
103
67
48
50
31
28
44
54
82
131
Richard Yu
146
182
161
151
156
171
71
53
57
61
57
47
24
Ryan Meyerhoff
173
181
134
88
64
55
60
43
39
40
45
68
102
Yena Bae
849
256
184
139
142
134
62
52
42
41
41
34
20
Totals
3346
2385
1985
1683
1440
1226
813
721
663
642
631
626
619

Summary of voting

The comprehensive report Creative Media puts out for every election can be found here: https://elections.ucdavis.edu/results/elec_21/index.html

3,346 voters expressed a preference, meaning the threshold for electing six senators was 479 votes. In the first round, Yena Bae was elected with an astounding 849 first preference ballots, more than twice that of her nearest competitor. This gives Yena the record for most #1 votes in the history of Choice Voting, beating the previous title holder Lula Ahmed-Falol by 103 votes.

Yena's ballots were transferred to their next preference at 370/849 power, or 0.4 votes per ballot. It appears Yena's support was extremely personal rather than distributed to the BOLD slate, and 228.8 of those 370 extra votes, or 525 ballots of her 849 first preference supporters, did not state a second preference. If all of Yena's votes had transferred to BOLD candidates, the remaining 5 BOLD candidates would have had an average of 333.6 votes each, or 4 candidates would have had 417 votes each, perhaps enough to elect one more Senator.

Caitlin Alday, Edd Montelongo, Richard Yu, Arasele Torrez Jiminez, Ryan Meyerhoff, and Anna Ruth Crittenden were eliminated before Brendan Repicky reached the 479 vote quota.

Jared Crisologo-Smith was eliminated and Amy Martin was the third Senator to reach quota.

Finally, because there were only three candidates remaining and three seats left, Miguel Espinoza, Mayra Martín, and Eli Yani were elected as each had greater than half of the quota.

For different voting scenarios or the consequences of resignations, visit Bizarro World.

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