The results from the Associated Students of the University of Oregon’s spring 2024 runoff elections were released this morning, April 11, after polls closed at 9 a.m.
The UO Student Power slate won 11 of the 19 legislative races on the ballot, while the OurUO and Flock Forward slates won four each. The election saw low turnout, with roughly 1,200 students — less than half of Monday’s turnout — casting a ballot.
The initial spring election results were released on April 8, with several student senate positions going to a runoff election after not getting a majority vote.
The Programs Finance Committee seats will be filled by Tiera Garrety, Marisol Peters, Anthony Lopez and Samaah Mohammed.
Contracts Finance Committee seats will be filled by Eleanor Potter and Jordan Ackemann.
Seats for the Departments Finance Committee, will be filled by Ronit Gupta, Victoria Pineiro and Prissila Moreno.
The art and science undergraduate seats will be filled by Jess Fisher, Rachel Withers and Joanne Wu.
Bella Esbeck, Liz Sgro and Noah Solis will serve as the design, music and dance undergraduate seat, the journalism undergraduate seat, and the business undergraduate seat, respectively.
The Contracts Finance Committee at large seat will be filled by Lisette Catalan.
The three Programs Finance Committee at large seats will be filled by Diego Duarte, Avery Mcdowell and Sayuri Payne.
These results were certified by the University of Oregon and confirmed by elections board chair Grigorii Malakhov.
UO Student Power candidates won a majority in the ASUO Senate for the 2024-25 year, which will give them more direct input over the student government’s financial decisions. In total, UO Student Power candidates won 13 of the 26 races on the ballot; OurUO won eight, including the ASUO presidency and vice presidency; and Flock Forward candidates won four. One seat, Senate Seat 21, had no candidates file and will be filled by appointment and confirmation.
Ian Finn, a fifth-year UO student and UO Student Power’s campaign manager, said the results reflected a desire for structural change within ASUO.
“With everything ASUO has been involved in over the past year, there has been a backlash and a desire for structural change within ASUO,” Finn said. “People were motivated to vote for Student Power candidates and I think that reflects in the results we got.”
Finn specifically pointed to controversies over the scheduling of ASUO’s spring concert, which conflicted with the UO Native American Student Union’s annual Mother’s Day Powwow for the second year in a row. Student backlash eventually led ASUO President Chloe Webster to announce the concert’s cancellation.
Tiera Garrety and Marisol Peters, both co-directors of NASU, were two of the winning candidates on the UO Student Power slate. The slate also swept the Programs Finance Committee seats, giving them more direct influence over the approval of I-Fee funds for student organizations.
The results follow a tumultuous period for ASUO elections. Since April 3, at least nine grievances have been filed with the ASUO Elections Board between the various campaigns. Finn and UO Student Power faced accusations of harassment regarding the endorsement of UO Students for Justice in Palestine, which the campaign has denied. On April 8, UO Student Power’s presidential ticket abruptly dropped out of the runoff election, causing OurUO candidates Mariam Hassan and Kikachi Akpakwu to win by default.
This story is breaking and will be updated.
The full election results are listed below. Winning candidates are listed in bold. All candidates are ordered by number of votes received.
Seat 1 — Programs Finance Committee (1-year)
Tiera Garrety (UO Student Power): 613 (58.2%)
Walker Hicks (OurUO): 440 (41.8%)
Seat 2 — Programs Finance Committee (2-year)
Marisol Peters (UO Student Power): 615 (57.6%)
Tripp Repp (OurUO): 452 (42.4%)
Seat 3 — Programs Finance Committee (1-year)
Anthony Lopez (UO Student Power): 592 (58.0%)
Adam Shuaib (OurUO): 428 (42.0%)
Seat 4 — Programs Finance Committee (1-year)
Samaah Mohammed (UO Student Power): 520 (50.6%)
Jazmin Mason (OurUO): 508 (49.4%)
Seat 6 — Contracts Finance Committee (2-year)
Eleanor Potter (UO Student Power): 583 (56.1%)
Tsering Hauenstein (OurUO): 457 (43.9%)
Seat 7 — Contracts Finance Committee (1-year)
Jordan Ackemann (UO Student Power): 548 (56.5%)
Autumn Oberhart (Flock Forward): 422 (43.5%)
Seat 8 — Departments Finance Committee (2-year)
Ronit Gupta (OurUO): 513 (54.2%)
Taliek Lopez-DuBoff (Flock Forward): 433 (45.8%)
Seat 9 — Departments Finance Committee (1-year)
Victoria Pineiro (UO Student Power): 561 (55.4%)
Riley Bair (OurUO): 452 (44.6%)
Seat 10 — Departments Finance Committee (1-year)
Prissila Moreno (UO Student Power): 620 (61.6%)*
Benjamin Ritter (OurUO): 386 (38.4%)
Seat 11 — Arts & Science Undergrad 1 (1-year)
Jess Fisher (UO Student Power): 90 (56.3%)
Santiago Makoto Parchen (OurUO): 70 (43.8%)
Seat 12 — Arts & Science Undergrad 2 (2-year)
Rachel Withers (Flock Forward): 48 (50.5%)
Aidain Correia (UO Student Power): 47 (49.5%)
Seat 15 — Arts & Science Undergrad 5 (1-year)
Joanne Wu (Flock Forward): 47 (60.3%)*
Aggie Alfred (OurUO): 31 (39.7%)
Seat 16 — Design, Music & Dance Undergrad (2-year)
Bella Esbeck (UO Student Power): 68 (57.6%)
Chris Walker (OurUO): 50 (42.4%)
Seat 18 — Journalism Undergrad (2-year)
Liz Sgro (Flock Forward): 66 (59.5%)
Mattie Melson (OurUO): 45 (40.5%)
Seat 19 — Business Undergrad 1 (1-year)
Noah Solis (OurUO): 34 (54.8%)
Emma Leland (Flock Forward): 29 (45.2%)
Contracts Finance Committee At-Large Seat 2 (1-year)
Lisette Catalan (OurUO): 518 (53.2%)
Charlie Gunn (UO Student Power): 456 (46.8%)
Programs Finance Committee At-Large Seat 1 (1-year)
Diego Duarte (UO Student Power): 520 (52.7%)
Ebissa Chako (OurUO): 467 (47.3%)
Programs Finance Committee At-Large Seat 2 (2-year)
Avery Mcdowell (OurUO): 516 (52.7%)
Jonah Gildea (UO Student Power): 463 (47.3%)
Programs Finance Committee At-Large Seat 4 (2-year)
Sayuri Payne (Flock Forward): 550 (55.8%)
Gabriel Mehr (OurUO): 435 (44.2%)
[Editor’s note: This article has been updated to reflect that Marisol Peters, winner of PFC Senate Seat 2, is a NASU co-director.]
