Barnard and Columbia College councils announce first-year election results

The Impact Party lived up to its name as the first-year Columbia College Student Council candidates took the victory in this week’s election—and Barnard’s unprecedented runoff elections finally came to a close.

The CCSC Elections Board announced the win of the presidential and vice presidential Impact ticket candidates Thursday afternoon, after an election that the board said went fairly smoothly.

According to Elections Board Chair James Bogner, CC ’10, there were “no system errors reported, nor any claims of voter harassment.”

Presidential and vice presidential candidates Alexander Jasiulek and Karishma Habbu of the Impact Party took the victory, earning a grand total of 228 votes in the final round of voting. They were followed by second-place candidates Tara Reed and Ryan Cho, who were running for president and vice president, respectively, on the Lion’s Initiative ticket.
The newly elected officials will now be working with representatives from a variety of parties—Dylan Lonergan from the Let’s Party, Ryan Mandelbaum from the Karma Party, and Kyle Schmidt from the Lion’s Initiative.

The six-ticket race brought out 356 votes, a turnout of 32 percent.

Across Broadway, Jung Hee Hyun, BC ’13, has been announced as president of the Barnard class of 2013 after a runoff of three candidates. As previously announced, the vice president is Rachel Ferrari, BC ’13, the secretary is Emily Feinstein, BC ’13, and the treasurer is Anya Whelan-Smith, BC ’13.

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