IgniteUTM’s Adam El-Falou will be the UTMSU’s president for the 2026–2027 academic year, ​​ the University of Toronto Mississauga Students’ Union (UTMSU) announced the unofficial results for the spring 2026 elections on their website. El-Falou garnered 1,501 votes to beat ServeUTM’s first-year candidate XinChun (Oliver) Wang, who only received 390 votes.

Consistent with last year’s results, candidates who won the executive position lineup were all from one of the two slates. This year, the winning slate was IgniteUTM, with no ServeUTM candidates securing an executive position.

Xingyi (Freya) Gao won the position of VP Internal with 1,505 votes.

Rajas Dhamija was re-elected as VP External with 1,520 votes.

The unopposed position of VP Equity went to the sole candidate, Tiffany Da Silva, who collected 1,605 votes in favour and 90 votes against her candidacy.

Dana Al-Habash was elected as VP University Affairs with 1,551 votes.

Each IgniteUTM candidate beat their ServeUTM opponents by over 1,000 votes, resulting in a landslide victory for their slate. A difference of this magnitude has not been witnessed in the previous three elections.

This year’s elections reported a 12.3 per cent voter turnout — a total of 2,004 eligible students — a significant decline from the previous year’s 19.2 per cent turnout, which had in turn been an increase from 2024’s 16.3 per cent and 2023’s approximate 14 per cent turnout — marking the voter turnout in 2026 as an all-time low across the past four elections.

Board of Directors

This year, 23 candidates ran for the 11 available seats in the Board of Directors (BOD) Division II. The 11 candidates who won a seat are: Xinhe (Cecilia) Wang, Cynthia Tong, Marcus Lee, Joud Al-Habash, Nabeeha Shamim, Sierra O’Brien, Saad Hussain, Maryam Zeeshan, Suleyman Yusuf, Jana Al-Mallah, and Ya (Gloria) Gao.

Only one candidate, Onoasi Odo-Effiong, ran for a seat in the BOD Division III and won with a total of 1,018 votes in favour, 267 votes against, and 625 abstentions.

In an email to The Varsity, the Chief Returning Officer (CRO) wrote that “to date there are no complaints, appeals or recounts and no issues regarding demerit points for the spring 2026 elections.”