Office Hours

Office hours will not be held throughout the summer, please contact us by email if you have any questions.

Contact

Steven Thompson

Chief Returning Officer
MSU Elections Dept.
MUSC 201E
Phone: (905) 525-9140 ex 24118
election@msu.mcmaster.ca


Melissa Sharma
Deputy Returning Officer
MSU Elections Dept.
MUSC 201E
Phone: (905) 525-9140 ex 24118
dro@msu.mcmaster.ca


Please email both the CRO and DRO to ensure a prompt response.
MSU Elections Dept.
MUSC 201E
1280 Main St. W.
Hamilton, ON
L8S 4S4

@MSU_Elections

 @MSU_Elections

Presidentials

 

The 2012/2013 MSU President-elect is Siobhan Stewart.


Candidate

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

CAMPBELL, David

1719

1879

2185

3072

ERL, Chris

1213

1419

1711

elim.

GALAN, Mukhtar

929

1017

elim.

-

RAMIREZ, Alex

704

elim.

-

-

STEWART, Siobhan

1985

2157

2420

3119

 

 

 

 

 

Abstain

153

231

387

512

Total Valid

6550

6472

6316

6191

Total

6703

6703

6703

6703

 

 

Siobhan Stewart wins in round 4 with 50.4% of the vote (3119 votes).

 

Voter turnout for the 2012 MSU Presidential election set a new all-time record for ballots cast with 6703 students voting. This represents 33.4% of the eligible voters. This is an increase of nearly 10% over last year’s election turnout and is the highest percentage of voter turnout since 1998. 

 

Want to double check your vote and the results?

1. Log in to mcmaster.simplyvoting.com

2. Click ’View Receipt’, and record your receipt number

3. Go back and click ’View Results’

4. Scroll to the bottom and download the spreadsheet of results (or get them here)

5. Open the file with excel (it’s a .csv file)

6. Search for your receipt number, ensure the votes match your choices


These results are unofficial until the end of the appeals period. Download the results here. For more information, please contact: 

Steven Thompson 
Chief Returning Officer 
election@msu.mcmaster.ca  


The Candidates for MSU President 2012-2013 are:

Campbell, David

Erl, Chris

Galan, Mukhtar

Ramirez, Alex

Stewart, Siobhan


Candidate Updates

January 20
Your names are public and have been published on the website and will be fairly well known today and over the weekend. Please understand that although you may be approached, campaigning has not started and so you can’t discuss your platform or your campaign. Feel free to say that you are running and to look out for campaigns to start Monday.

If you would like to have someone else authorized to use your printing credit, please let me know and they will be added. Also, the credits will be available by 11:00 am today.



January 18
The all-candidates meeting will be held in HH 302, at 6 pm January 19. You MUST attend or inform us beforehand if you can’t make it in order to be eligible to run.

Events throughout the campaign period are as follows:

Presidential Pub Night at 1280 - 6 pm Jan 24
Informal style debate, with a ’meet the candidates’ time. Free appetizers will be provided, and the restaurant and bar are open.

Presidential Debate - noon January 31
More structured debate, running about two hours. Will focus less on a stream of questions and more on discussions on issues that arise from the campaign.

Polling locations have been confirmed:
Arts & Science: Commons 
Commerce: DSB
Engineering: JHE
Health Science: Ewart Angus
Humanities: Mills
Kinesiology: DBAC
Nursing: Ewart Angus
Science: BSB
Social Science: MUSC

January 10
All Presidential candidates will have access to a printing credit of $250 at Undergound, along with the MSU service discount rate at Underground and the MSU club rate at AVtek on January 20. This is to save you money and give you access to more campaigning options. All of these will be available at 9 am January 20 for registered candidates. Feel free to prepare campaign material in advance, and you may contact AVtek sooner, but don’t print anything until the 20.

January 8
The MUSC posting policy has been added to the nomination packages online. Please familiarize yourselves with appropriate locations in the Student Centre. 

January 4
Full nomination packages are now available at the MSU front desk, and online. The finalized rules have also been posted, with no significant changes made.

January 3
The following rules are tentative. Please take a look and familiarize yourself with them, but understand there may be changes made.

Note the following changes:
  • Deposits are $50, not $20.
  • Removed the reference to group campaigning.
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