WARNING: Student elections taking place

It’s that time of year again: the birds are singing, the sun is shining and soon enough students will be hawking candidates’ flyers, stickers, buttons and bribes all around town […]

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It’s that time of year again: the birds are singing, the sun is shining and soon enough students will be hawking candidates’ flyers, stickers, buttons and bribes all around town (that last one is a joke). And don’t forget to look up to see obligatory bed-sheet-banners, the budget version of a billboard and a St Andrews favourite. We are said to have the most energetic election season in the UK. Turnout for last year’s elections was truly excellent for student elections in the UK, with 52% of the university voting online. This year, let’s try and get the other half interested!

Nominations opened online at 9am yesterday but the slightly more surreptitious among us will be able to nominate themselves right up to Friday at 5pm. After this candidates will have another week to campaign throughout the town, with voting opening on the 7th of March and closing on the evening of the 8th.

Soon the library will become battlefield to nominees and their marketeers, armed with auspicious mascots and megaphones; the Union will be a minefield of promotional events and posters – and The Stand is sending out correspondents to cover it all. Check in with us over the next two weeks (though it may seem like months) for coverage of nominations, hecklings, campaigns, videos and votes.

For a live feed of nominations, check the Union’s election twitter feed

 

Headline image: DOREP Amanda Litherland’s team campaigning last year.