Executive alliance candidates Kiera Dixon and Jaden Watt will serve as the 2026-27 Student Government president and vice president, the Election Supervisory Board announced Monday. Their terms begin on April 7, according to the SG Constitution. 

Government juniors Dixon and Watt defeated six other alliances. The pair won on a platform built on addressing food insecurity, amplifying University mental health resources and working on SG reform, which includes restoring the SG agencies. Current SG President Hudson Thomas and Vice President Thierry Chu dissolved the agencies —  smaller SG organizations which advocated for student issues like food security — in September 2025 for the sake of “efficiency.”

Voting ran for two days, starting on March 2, with voters picking a singular alliance they would like to win as opposed to the ranked choice system used last year. Dixon and Watt received 2,968 votes, approximately 37% of the vote. They beat runners-up Cate Kratovil, a Plan II and government junior, and Bailey Inglish, a Plan II and statistics and data science junior, by 967 votes.

“We’re thankful to the student body that they’ve chosen us to represent them, and we’re ready to get to work,” Watt said. “Seeing our names on the screen was like a breath of fresh air … It didn’t feel real.” 

The Election Supervisory Board and the Supreme Court of SG held a hearing for a complaint against Dixon and Watt on Saturday. The complaint claimed the alliance did not disclose campaign material distributed by University Democrats, a student organization that endorsed the alliance, and went over spending limits. 

The petitioner argued that University Democrats’ distribution of pizza and fliers on election day should have been included in the campaign’s budget. The Court decided not to disqualify Dixon and Watt because the pizza was provided by the James Talarico Senate campaign, and the fliers were not created for the sole purpose of endorsing Dixon and Watt, according to the opinion published on Sunday. 

“Disqualifying an executive alliance is the highest punishment this court is able to grant, but it is not necessary here,” the document stated. “Simply put, there is too little convincing evidence of wrongdoing by the Dixon and Watt Executive Alliance to then give them the most severe punishment possible.” 

The alliance said their favorite part of campaigning was meeting people across campus and hearing their stories, and Watt said he thinks visibility helped students connect to the elections. Dixon said this allowed her to connect with voters and learn about concerns from student communities she had never interacted with before. 

“Student Government is pretty far removed from a lot of people,” Dixon said. “So when we’re on Speedway literally being like, ‘just come have a conversation with us and talk to us,’ it takes down that barrier.” 

Watt said the pair is grateful for the student body’s confidence in them, and they hope they can ensure students trust them throughout their term. 

“We’re looking to follow up on that in a very real, a tangible and a visible way, where we make sure that students know what’s happening, where we make sure that they’re up to date on what’s going on,” Watt said. “We’re really excited to move the 40 forward.”