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Voter turnout up 33% at Western, down at McMaster

By Macleans.ca | February 13th, 2009 | 3:32 am

Two more student elections to note.

Voter turnout is up at the University of Western Ontario where 9,470 students voted in the student union elections this week. Western has about 25,000 undergraduate students. Emily Rowe, whose campaign video was the topic of one my recent posts, won with 3,957 votes.

Voter turnout was down at McMaster University with only 13 per cent of students voting. Vishal Tiwari, the current vice-president education of the McMaster Students’ Union, won the preferential vote with 59.27% of votes after eight rounds of counting. Tiwari received 861 first choice votes.



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3 Responses to “Voter turnout up 33% at Western, down at McMaster”

  1. Cassandra Jowett says:
    February 13, 2009 at 8:38 pm

    I think voter turnout was up at Ryerson this year, but still only about 14 per cent of students vote: http://www.rsuonline.ca/index.php?section_id=47&content_id=584

  2. More student elections: SFX, UBC, and Ryerson : Macleans OnCampus says:
    February 13, 2009 at 9:33 pm

    [...] very low by national standards at 14 per cent. (Thanks to Cassandra Jowlett for noting this in a comment on my [...]

  3. Amber Ruddy says:
    February 27, 2009 at 12:11 am

    Just a slight correction the voter turnout rate at Western was 9950. The exact results can be found at https://weed.its.uwo.ca/elections/overviewElection.asp