Revealed: 2015 SUSU Election Candidates

Everyone fasten your seatbelts, because the full list of candidates running in the 2015 SUSU elections has been released.

If your favourite things include having your lectures hijacked and being attacked with slogans as you walk between seminars then SUSU election season is like a long, drawn out Christmas.

This year, there are fewer candidates for Sabb roles, headlined by the total absence of joke candidates on the entire ballot.

However, both new student leader positions (Charities and Community Officer and Housing Officer) have candidates, and the proportion of contested roles has risen from 78% last year to 80%.

The candidates are:

Union President:
Benjamin Franklin
Sebastian Vogelpoel

VP Democracy & Creative Industries:
Chris McGeehan
Kerry Sclater

VP Welfare:
Sam Bailey
Chibeza Mumbi
Eva Pemberton

VP Engagement:
Jenny Bortoluzzi
Daniel Clemence
Hannah Talbot

VP Student Communities:
Rebecca Lake
Anjit Aulakh

VP Sports Development:
Stephen Barratt
Roman Martin
Ashley Sivarajah
Jamie Wilson

VP Education:
Shruti Verma

Campaigning will start on February 20th. Voting begins on March 9th and ends at 4pm on March 13th. All of the results will be announced that night (March 13th) in Elections Night Live at The Cube.

If you care about the student leader candidates too (you very likely don’t), here they are:

Ethics and Environment Officer:
Amy Paraskeva
Dominika Slotwinski

Student Groups Officer:
Trini Philip
Michael Sims

The Edge Editor:
Natalie Fordham

Wessex Scene Editor:
Bridie Pearson-Jones

SUSUtv Station Manager:
Christopher Evans
Hexin Li

Surge Radio Station Manager:
Dan Linstead

Union Films Cinema Manager:
Alexander Petrov
Alexander Howard
Christina Vinothan

International Students Officer:
Zehong Li

JCR Officer:
Flora Noble
Daniel Varley

RAG Officer:
Kieran Reals

Charities and Communities Officer:
Jade Head

Nightline Officer:
Luke Hashman

Housing Officer:
Louise Bellamy

Athletic Union Officer:
Katie Lightowler

Physical Sciences & Engineering Faculty Officer:
Giles Howard

Engineering and Environment Faculty Officer:
Vinnie Sivadev

Humanities Faculty Officer:
Frazer Delves

Social and Human Faculty Officer:
Harriet Hall

Business and Law Faculty Officer:
Marc Goh

Health Sciences Faculty Officer:
Daniel Browning
Charlene Wickham

Student Trustee:
Nathe Jenkins

Union Councillors:
[Note: Some Union Council positions are reserved for people from particular backgrounds, the final allocation of which will be known on results night]
Zehong Au
Alexander Howard
Phillipa Pearce
Kokulan Mahendiran
Steven Valentine
Jade Head
Frazer Delves

Positions with no candidates:
Enterprise Officer, Equality and Diversity Officer, Intramural Officer, NOC (Site) Officer, Natural and Environmental Sciences Faculty Officer, Post-Graduate Officer, Sports Participation Officer, Wellbeing Officer and Winchester (Site) Officer.

Who will you be voting for? Let us know in the comments!