Class of 2017 SGA election results announced
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrases “sga” and “student government”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article reports the certified Class of 2017 SGA election results, vote totals and comments about the election.
- The News-Letter reported that Kyra Toomre said the freshmen election results had been certified, with Jonathan Loewenberg elected president and Gaurav Verma, Jonathan (JB) Brown, Mary Adelaide Morphett, Matthew Brown, Nick McCormack and Ope Olukorede elected senators.
- The paper reported that Loewenberg received 109 votes, or 16.3 percent, while abstentions received 101 votes, or 15.1 percent, in the presidential race.
- The article says Olukorede led the Senate race with 251 votes, followed by Jonathan Brown with 219, Matthew Brown with 210, Morphett with 209, McCormack with 184 and Verma with 178.
- The reporter writes that there were no Senate-race abstentions; Laura Perkinson said students may have abstained in the presidential race because they did not know the candidates, but she could not identify one conclusive reason.
- According to the article, 669 ballots were cast, compared with 854 the previous year; in a campaign video, Loewenberg said he wanted to advocate for students rather than make “crazy promises.”
- The News-Letter reported that Perkinson said there were no outstanding appeals, few campaign violations and no formal complaints, and that the SGA would welcome the new senators.