I could just copy and paste everything I wrote in my last post on uni elections, but I don't feel like it. In fact, this post is more about what it's like to stand in an election.
I applied for two different society positions which hadn't been filled in the winter elections. I was lucky someone won two different committee positions back then, so one of them had to be left vacant, and I got the chance to swoop in and challenge for the role.
Now, my views on uni elections haven't changed - I still think they tend to be more of an event than anything else, and they only work if you actually get uni life. I also think that argument is incredibly petty, and writing a whole post about that was a bit needless. Maybe I'm saying that to not look like a hypocrite for standing in these elections.
The summer elections only exist to fill up any roles no one took before, so the vibe around them is far more subdued and you've got fewer candidates for each role. One of them was for a society where I'd often mentioned wanting to run, and it's not the biggest so I put it to one side. The other one, I was less sure about, so I wrote up a serious looking manifesto with a few promises, even mentioning a few unrelated achievements; it seems many people do that in their manifestos. I didn't go down the populist route, no, why are you even asking?
Campaigning was, again, not my biggest priority at the time, since I had a lab that week. It was also very near the end of term - only about three weeks left - so bearing all that in mind, the election cycle was going to be very lowkey. I was tired by this point, stressed about nickel complexes, and would have happily had an election without the campaigning, just to get it over with.
All I did was tell some people I was running, and hope that got the message across. Then again, these being the summer elections, that was probably enough for me. I happened to put way too much effort into my manifesto because I assumed if anyone was going to run against me, I had to stand out. Turns out, some people didn't even write manifestos, making me look a bit like a dweeb.
I found out I managed to get elected today, though, so...yay! ヾ( ˃ᴗ˂ )◞ • *
Slight caveat...I don't know which position I won. I got an email from the Imperial College Union, saying I'd been elected, but that was only to sign up for a training day, not to say which post I'd won. I've checked the union's website a few times recently, hoping for an update, but so far, nothing. Maybe I'm too early. I'll update this post as soon as I get the results, though.
Edit: I found the results in the end, and I won both, which is nice. To anyone who knows me from Imperial, or who voted for me, thanks, I appreciate it.
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