The University of law students' Union

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The Results are in!

The Students’ Union is happy to publish the results from our recent Co-President Elections. Thank you to all the candidates for their hard work, the staff involved in promoting the election, and of course to the 1000+ students who voted!

Congratulations to:

  • Jana Holeckova - Academic Affairs
  • Al Yessa - Union Development

A green square has white text that says Co-President 2025-26 Academic Affairs at the top, and Jana Holeckova at the bottom. A picture of Jana sits in the middle, surrounded by confetti.A green square has white text that says Co-President 2025-26 Union Development at the top, and Al Yessa at the bottom. A picture of Al Yessa sits in the middle, surrounded by confetti.

Voting Breakdown

You can find the full voting results for each role below. 

Academic Affairs

 

Election of Co-President for Academic Affairs

Number of valid ballot forms: 996

Number of vacancies to be filled: 1

Quota: 499

 

Stage 1

Stage 2

Stage 3

Stage 4

Name of Candidate

TOTAL

Transferred

TOTAL

Transferred

TOTAL

 

Jana Holeckova

396

7

403

27

430

ELECTED

Muhammad Shayan

129

Eliminated

       

Peter Bojali

272

7

279

28

307

Eliminated

Raveena Raviraj

167

15

182

Eliminated

   

Re-open nominations

32

Eliminated

       

Non-transferable

 

132

132

259

259

 

TOTAL

996

 

996

 

996

 

Summary

  • Muhammad Shayan and Re-open nominations were eliminated in Stage 1 and 29 votes were transferred to candidates in Stage 2, where the voter has indicated a second preference.
  • Raveena Raviraj was eliminated in Stage 2 and 55 votes were reallocated.
  • Jana Holeckova received the most votes out of the two remaining candidates in Stage 3 and is elected.

 

Union Development

 

Election of Co-President for Union Development

Number of valid ballot forms: 1033

Number of vacancies to be filled: 1

Quota: 518

 

Stage 1

Stage 2

Name of Candidate

 

Transfer

Aishat Adegboyega

42

Eliminated

Al Yessa

517

ELECTED

Catherine Apenteng

55

Eliminated

Edma Okorley

29

Eliminated

Elias Tekletsadik

61

Eliminated

Haroon Saleem

30

Eliminated

Ka Pok Cheung

36

Eliminated

Muhammad Akbar

43

Eliminated

Rashid Korsinah

31

Eliminated

Sarita Ahuja

30

Eliminated

Uche Adika

100

Eliminated

Victoria Zhang

42

Eliminated

Re-open nominations

17

Eliminated

TOTAL

1033

 

Summary

  • Al Yessa met the quota by receiving more votes than the rest of the candidates combined within Stage 1 and was elected.

 

 

What happens next?

The new Co-Presidents will start their role in July this year, watch this space as we work with them to make plans based on their manifestos and ideas.

Our next election will be the Autumn Representative Elections, where students have an opportunity to vote for the Campus Vice-Presidents, Programme Representatives, and the Equalities and International Student Officers.

If you have any questions about our elections, or would like to request the above results in a different format, please don't hesitate to contact us at studentsunion@law.ac.uk.