Elections

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.

We’ll bring you updates as they occur. Watch this space!