Students, mostly members or supporters of presidential campaigns, gathered in the Student Union Wednesday to hear the results of the Student Government election.
Kendal Asbury
Following the conclusion of its 2026 election that saw Shivani Vakharia and Dwayne Jones win the presidency, UCF’s Student Government revealed the details of its election results.
The document provided by Andrew Collazo, the supervisor of elections, details the total number of votes, the votes for each candidate representing Senate seats and the seats corresponding with each college at UCF.
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5,063 people voted in the election, with Vakharia and Jones earning 2,426 votes to become the president and vice president-elect. The ticket represented by Panayiota ‘Pon’ Laliotis and Athena Dieguez was the runner-up with 2,119 votes and the ticket represented by Alyssa Feige and Anna Ellis came in third place with 175 votes.
The Senate seats for each college are varied. The document shows that the College of Sciences holds the most seats with 15, while the College of Optics and Photonics joins undeclared majors as the two categories with just one seat. Across the 12 colleges within UCF, there were six seats on average.
Collazo made it clear in the document that the results must be read with Senate seat appropriation in mind.
“For example, there were five candidates for the College of Medicine, but there are only three seats, so only the candidates with the three-highest vote counts won a seat,” he wrote.
Below is a graph of the Senator-elects for each college and the candidate with the most votes:
CollegeSenator Elects Leading Candidate VotesCollege of Sciences12Victoria Jones: 417College of Graduate Studies5Nathan M. Rickett: 53Undeclared MajorsNo candidates electedN/ARosen College of Hospitality Management1Veronica Perez: 96College of Optics and Photonics1Adeline Habgood: 14College of Nursing1Diana Nguyen: 148 College of Medicine 3Amanda Nunez-Ferreira: 146College of Health Professions and Sciences3Madalyn Phillips: 180College of Arts & Humanities3Olivia Smith: 65College of Engineering and Computer Science 12 Amanda Rubio: 268 College of Community Education and Innovation6 Sophia Dufour: 127College of Business5 Sahasra Satvika: 321
A constitutional amendment to change the term “supermajority” to the more specific designation “two-thirds” also passed with 3,553 “YES” votes of the 3,704 total votes on the amendment.
“This change amends the term ‘supermajority’ throughout the Constitution to ‘two-thirds.’ The term ‘supermajority’ lacks a clear definition, and as such grants great leverage to the Student Body Senate to determine its meaning,” the document read.