UCF SGA Senate elections were held this week and SGA saw an extreme drop in voter turnout from 2013.
In total, there were 2,948 votes, dropping 2,307 from 2013 at a 43.9% decrease. In spring SGA voted to ban candidates from providing students with food, drink and prizes during the candidate voting process, considering all of those items a bribe.
“SGA is striving to produce a more informed student body about the importance of these elections and their impacts on the student body as a whole,” Supervisor of Elections Eunice Wanjiru said in a release before the elections.
KnightNews.com reached out to Wanjiru after the elections to ask if SGA thought they did a good job informing the student body about the elections, but did not get a response back.
The Black and Gold Ticket, an SGA political party, announced on their Facebook page that 46 of the 47 candidates running for Senate seats won their election.
Full list of the 47th Senate:
College of Arts and Humanities
Seat 1: Kevin Diatezua
Seat 2: Alanna Fulk
Seat 3: Sara Gomez
Seat 4: Irina Pidberejna
College of Buisness Administaration
Seat 1: Michelle Mendez
Seat 2: Thomas Huang
Seat 3: Brandon Weppner
Seat 4: Vanessa Gomez
Seat 5: Rechelle Lambert
Seat 6: Kelly Greenwood
Seat 7: Benjamin DeStefano
Seat 8: Brian Quintero-Pino
College of Education and Human Performance
Seat 1: Audra Greuel
Seat 2: Brian Zagrocki
Seat 3: Christina Stoecker
Seat 4: Jamie Corey
College of Engineering & Computer Science
Seat 1: Crystian Cepeda
Seat 2: Hamilron Ervin
Seat 3: Lashell Lewis
Seat 4: Ashear Saad
Seat 5: Jimmy Briggs
Seat 6: Nick George
Seat 7: Ariane Dicario
College of Graduate Studies
Seat 1: Empty
Seat 2: Joshua Burbridge
Seat 3: Craig Jariz
Seat 4: Anthony Iaquinta
Seat 5: Empty
Seat 6: Empty
Seat 7: Empty
Seat 8: Sia Mohammadalipoor
College of Health and Public Affairs
Seat 1: Kaitlyn McCoy
Seat 2: Rebeca Twardy
Seat 3: Lauren Esposito
Seat 4: Madalyn Hart
Seat 5: Cara Gillaspie
Seat 6: Scott Benton
Seat 7: Victoria Benbow
Rosen College of Hospitality Management
Seat 1: Khari Grant
Seat 2: Rachel Altfield
Seat 3: Hannah Whipple
College of Medicine
Seat 1: Steve Njeru
Seat 2: Daniel Perez
Seat 3: Gerard Lemongello
College of Nursing
Seat 1: Empty
Seat 2: Jae Kook Lim
College of Sciences
Seat 1: Isel Bedgood
Seat 2: Caitlyn Zona
Seat 3: Nick Grandchamps
Seat 4: Jonathan Alexander Remy
Seat 5: Jessica Wolff
Seat 6: Alex Carciente-Moreno
Seat 7: Rodolfo Padilla
Seat 8: Jennifer Bayes
Seat 9: Meghan Kircher
Seat 10: Michelle Artilles
Undeclared Majors
Seat 1: Empty
Seat 2: Thomas Peterson
Regional Campus
Seat 1: Dillon Freeland
Seat 2: Empty
