The Student Government Association announced the results of the fall 2023 Senator elections on Sept. 29 via an email to the student body. Voting ran from Sept. 25–29. 

Fall elections are meant to elect only the two senators for the incoming first-year students. However, because of a lack of candidates during the spring election, many positions were not filled. These positions were added to last week’s ballot. 

Only two candidates had submitted petitions in time for their names to be placed on the ballot, but a number of write-in candidates ran successful campaigns. 

Lillian Sellers, who currently serves as a class of 2025 senator, won the race for Vice President of External Affairs. She was joined on the ballot by Ella Zinn, who won her race for class of 2026 senator. They will be joined by senior Alli Stull, who ran a write-in campaign for the senator position representing the class of 2024. 

Kenton Woods, Jackson Barno, and Ari Stevens ran an impromptu in a joint write-in campaign organized by Greg Shultz. Schultz, who himself ran for the class of 2026 seat, was narrowly defeated by Zinn. Woods will serve as the non-traditional student senator, Barno as the transfer senator, and Stevens will represent the College of Education and Human Services. 

Each class is represented by two senator positions. Despite multiple candidates receiving votes, only one winner was announced for the class of 2027. Kenny Tran was announced as the sole winner. Kyle Marzullo, who ran as part of the aforementioned joint campaign and received the second highest number of votes, was not announced as a winner. SGA had not responded to a request for clarification by time of publication. 

Brady Young received the largest number of votes for five of the open positions, including class of 2024, exploratory, international, and commuter senators, as well as the vice president of finance. This marks the second election in which Young has won multiple positions with just a handful of write-in votes. In the last election, he had won eight separate positions with only five votes. 

Young was deemed ineligible for the eight positions last year, but his eligibility this time around is uncertain. Speaking to Slate staff, he said there was an ongoing conversation about his eligibility, and he had tentatively accepted the commuter senator position pending that determination. 

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