Welcome to our Elections page. Our Students’ Union runs elections for Sabbatical Officers, Trustees, Part-time Officers and other positions during the Spring Term of every academic year.
Exclusive: We will be streaming the Election results live from Sub Zero on this page from 6pm on Friday 13 February.
This year’s dates:
Date | Event | Location |
Mon 2 Feb – 18:00 | Candidates Briefing | LTB3 |
Tue 3 Feb – 12:00 | Manifesto Deadline | |
Fri 6 Feb – 00:00 | Campaigning Begins | |
Fri 6 Feb – 18:00 | Hustings (Colchester) | LTB7 |
Mon 9 Feb – 18:30 | Hustings (Southend) | The Forum Lecture Theatre |
Tue 10 Feb – 18:30 | Hustings (Loughton) | Bar |
Wed 11 Feb – 10:00 | Voting Opens | |
Fri 13 Feb – 16:00 | Voting Closes | |
Fri 13 Feb – 18:00 | Election Results | Sub Zero |
(From essexstudent.com/keydates)
The provisional list of candidates, released on Friday 30 Jan, is as follows:
Sabbatical Officers
President:
Adrian Chira
Felix Poole
Femi Adeyemi-Ejeye
Jack Fuller
Michael Chalmers
Sarah Olubunmi
VP Education
Osei Downes
Sam French
VP International
Christine Anastasiou
Joelle Leilich
Paulina Hagyariova
Valentina Pohsien Li
VP Services and Communications
Dan Ward
Joseph Spicer
Josh O’Connor
Michael Newman
Tom Phillips
VP Southend and Loughton
Chaoying Wu
Shola Akinyemi
Yujing Liang
VP Student Activities
Ali Awil
Alin Petcu
Hamza Eric Kazmi
Megan Sweeney
Mitchell Bond
Samuel Grocott
VP Welfare and Community
Adam Coll
Antony Taylor
Jessica Rich
Joseph Spicer
Michael Farah
Rehana Adam
Tomas Kasiulis
Part-time Officers
Black and Minority Ethnic Students’ Officer
Sebastian Lescott
Campaigns Officer
Christopher Flossman
Equality and Diversity Officer
Sabrina Jamil
Ethics and Environment Officer
Isabel Rivas Martinez
LGBT Officer
Kevin Bedford
Simone Mendez-Sutcliffe
Taran Baragwanath
Mature and Part Time Officer
George Johnson
Participation and Involvement Officer
Jake Parkins
Women Students’ Officer
Sarah Griesmer
Trustee
Student Trustee
Anjli Hansora
George Johnson
Joseph Ikebudu
Stefan Bertram
Theodoros Lambrou
Valentina Poshsien Li
Yun Zhang
Southend Trustee
Yujing Liang
NUS
NUS Delegate
Adrià Porta Caballé
Alex Perring
Andrew Arnott
Ava Etemadzadeh
Christopher Flossman
George Johnson
Jordan Cohen
Joshua Murray
Sabrina Jamil
Will Stacey
Southend Part Time Officers
International Students Officer
Dhanalakshmi Sridhar
This is a provisional list and will be confirmed on Tuesday February 4th.