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Marquette Wire

The student news site of Marquette University

Marquette Wire

The student news site of Marquette University

Marquette Wire

And the election goes to…

The results are in from yesterday's Marquette Student Government election, and Dan Calandriello and Kristen Kamm have been named the new MUSG president and executive vice president.

Calandriello, a College of Business Administration junior, and Kamm, a College of Health Sciences junior, received 1,123 votes, or 56.5 percent of the total number of votes. The opposing team, College of Communication junior Jamie Wu and College of Arts & Sciences junior Anna Titulaer, received 863 votes or 43.5 percent of the total number of votes cast.

A total of 2,058 votes were recorded, of which 33, or 1.6 percent, were invalid due to ineligibility of the voters or duplicate votes. The percentage of invalid votes nearly doubled from last year's MUSG elections, in which 0.9 percent of the total votes were invalid.

The total number of eligible votes cast — 2,025 — was considerably less than the 2,126 eligible votes cast in last year's MUSG spring elections.

"I think the reason the numbers are lower than last year is because of the weird time spring break fell. The campaigns were interrupted due to the transition time of spring break," Calandriello said.

Other elected positions that were decided on Wednesday were senators from the various colleges, including four seats for Arts & Sciences, two seats for Business Administration, two seats for Communication, two seats for Engineering, one seat for Nursing and one seat for Health Sciences.

Two seats remain unfilled, one from the College of Arts & Sciences, and the other from the College of Health Sciences. In accordance with the MUSG constitution the colleges' student councils will be asked to appoint a student to fill the vacancies.

"The voice of the students was heard," Wu said. "Anna and I ran on the ballot saying we wanted to hear and respond to the wants of the students. Well, the students spoke, and we would like to thank all those who voted and everyone who helped with the election."

The inauguration of all the newly elected MUSG senators will take place March 31 at 4 p.m. in the Alumni Memorial Union Ballrooms.

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