<\/p>\n ‘Really loved’: Shivani Vakharia, Dwayne Jones win 2026-27 presidency<\/a><\/p>\n
5,063 people\u00a0voted in the\u00a0election, with Vakharia and Jones earning\u00a02,426 votes to become the president and vice president-elect. The ticket\u00a0represented by Panayiota\u00a0\u2018Pon\u2019 Laliotis and Athena Dieguez\u00a0was the runner-up with 2,119 votes and the ticket represented by Alyssa Feige and Anna Ellis came\u00a0in third place with 175 votes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Senate seats for each college are varied.\u00a0The 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.\u00a0Across the 12 colleges within\u00a0UCF, there were six seats on average.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Collazo made it clear in the document that the results must be read with Senate seat appropriation in mind.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFor example, there were\u00a0five candidates\u00a0for the College of Medicine, but there are only\u00a0three seats, so only the candidates with the\u00a0three-highest vote counts\u00a0won a seat,\u201d he wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Below is a graph of the Senator-elects for each college and the candidate with the most votes:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
CollegeSenator Elects\u00a0Leading 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\u00a0College of Medicine\u00a03Amanda Nunez-Ferreira: 146College of Health Professions and Sciences3Madalyn Phillips: 180College of Arts & Humanities3Olivia Smith: 65College of Engineering and Computer Science\u00a012\u00a0Amanda Rubio: 268\u00a0College of Community Education and Innovation6\u00a0Sophia Dufour: 127College of Business5\u00a0Sahasra Satvika: 321<\/p>\n
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A constitutional amendment to change the term \u201csupermajority\u201d to the more specific designation \u201ctwo-thirds\u201d also passed with 3,553 \u201cYES\u201d votes of the 3,704 total votes on the amendment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis 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,\u201d the document read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Students, mostly members or supporters of presidential campaigns, gathered in the Student Union Wednesday to hear the results…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[115,139,141,140,22849],"class_list":{"0":"post-191183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-orlando","10":"tag-orlando-headlines","11":"tag-orlando-news","12":"tag-student_government"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}