Marie Kinderman has won the UTSU presidency for 2026-2027, winning 38.5 per cent of the vote. Kinderman won by 2.6 points — or 67 votes — edging out Adrian J. Lam for the top leadership position at the union serving 41,100 undergraduate students at UTSG. Presidential candidate Safia Zaman received 662 votes, or 25.6 per cent. Election results were posted on SimplyVoting on March 2, but an official announcement of the results has not yet been released by the union. 

Only 4498 students voted, of 41,187 eligible voters — 10.1 per cent. This is a decrease from last year’s turnout of 12.5 per cent, which itself was a decrease from the 2024-2025 election cycle. 

Underdog Tony Guo will be the next VP Finance and Operations after Sammy Onikoyi, who received 39 per cent of the votes and runner up Aliyah Kashkari, were disqualified on charges of “Egregious violations of Fair Play / spirit of elections.” Onikoyi is appealing her disqualification, though it is currently unclear if Kashkari has done the same. Onikoyi, Kashkari, and Guo did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Nadège Jackiw will be the next VP Public and University Affairs, with 26.6 per cent of the vote, beating out Eli Miller-Buza by a margin of 6 points. Incumbent Damola Dina received 11.5 per cent of votes. 

VP Student Life goes to Verona Odhiambo, who received 37.6 per cent of the vote. After a previously unsuccessful campaign for VP Student Life in last year’s election, Juan Diego Areiza has won the VP Equity position with 25.1 per cent of the vote.

Nine of the ten Board of Directors vacancies have been filled. 

Referenda results

All three referenda passed with large majorities. 65.3 per cent of students who voted support raising the Students for Barrier-Free Access levy from $1.00 to $2.50. 74.9 per cent supported “the expansion of student and city music life, through funding, education, and opportunity across campus,” in the Faculty of Music Undergraduate Association referendum. 77 per cent voted in favour of the UTSU’s proposed fee increase of $1.25 to expand the Student Aid Program. 

Correction: This article was corrected on March 3 to reflect that all 9 Director-at-Large candidates were elected to the board.