Students Elect Dasgupta, King

Photo by Courtney Erland.

By Broadside Staff Writer Ryan Dempset

Devraj Dasgupta and Tyler King were announced as the newly elected Student Government president and vice president, respectively, last Thursday.

According to the student government website, Dasgupta and King received 1,534 of the 3,390 votes. Anthony DiCarlo and Krista Muise had the second largest number of votes, 500 behind Dasgupta and King. In total, Dasgupta’s and DiCarlo’s votes totaled 75.75 percent of the overall vote count in the election.

Joshua St. Louis and Amanda Johnson placed third in the election with 450 votes. Lastly, Kyle McDaniel and Jillian Ferron received 255 votes. There were also 117 total write-in votes.

“I’m feeling really excited,” said Dasgupta. “I’m so happy that I get the opportunity to work with the student body. It’s been a long and great experience, and the work doesn’t stop now. It only begins.”

Current Student Government President Zack Golden was optimistic about the election and the results.

“I was very satisfied with the tone and level of discourse with this year's election,” said Golden. “All of the candidates did a fantastic job of sharing their ideas while remaining positive. I think that Dev and Tyler will do a great job. Their leadership experience in Greek life and athletics will serve them well as president and vice president.”

DiCarlo and Muise were also optimistic of the overall outcome.

“Obviously we’re a little disappointed, but you just want what’s best for the organization, and if that happens to be Dev and Tyler, then that’s great,” said Muise.

“I think we ran a really great election campaign and definitely wouldn’t change anything we did, except maybe 500 other people,” said DiCarlo. “Ultimately, as long as students are getting what they’ve been promised and getting results from the organization and student government, then that’s what’s really important . . . We wish them the best of luck and will definitely be keeping a close eye on how things go in student government.”

The elected senators for next year’s student government are: Semhar Abed, Nicola Anderson, D’Leon Barnett, Esha Bhardwaj, Allyson Bowers, Melanie Caldwell, Tiffany Catron, Blaine Darnall, Michael DeMatteo, Thomas Flounders, Lynn Gold, Neha Gulati, Bailey Hall, Patrick Hedger, Justin Herbst, Melissa Jackson, Mhehvish Khan, Maxwell Liffers, Amanda Liverpool-Cummings, Keegan Luczak, Jeremy Miller, James Nance, Miguel Perez, Dominic Pody, Terence Pologe, Alexander Romano, Zack Schneider, Angel Scott, Harry Walker and Zakaria Zerhouni.

For more information and results regarding the elections, visit the student government website at sg.gmu.edu.