Amir Moghadam has been re-elected to a third term as president of the University of Toronto Graduate Students’ Union (UTGSU). Running unopposed, he won 91.8 per cent of the vote. A total of 995 graduate students voted out of 20,238 eligible, resulting in a turnout of 4.9 per cent — a slight decrease from last year’s 6.3 per cent. All executive positions, except the Vice President (VP) Grad Life position, were uncontested.

Current VP Grad Life Eliz Shimshek was elected VP Academics position, winning 92.4 per cent of the vote. VP External goes to Nicholas Silver, current VP Academics, who was elected with 94.7 per cent and 736 votes — the highest total among candidates. VP Internal will be Ferdinand Reke Avikpe, who received 93.4 per cent of the vote.

In the contested VP Grad Life election, Zoë Nicoladis defeated Grad Forward’s Victoria Mata by 31 votes. Nicoladis received 396 votes, or 52 per cent.

The VP Finance election results have not yet been announced. Due to an administrative error in the SimplyVoting system, the position was omitted from the ballot, requiring a separate election. Voting closed on March 27.

In an email to The Varsity, UTGSU Chief Returning Officer Harmanbeer Sandhu confirmed that the error was solely linked to this ballot and that the union did not incur additional expenses for conducting a runoff election. According to Sandhu, UTGSU coordinated with both SimplyVoting and the Elections & Referenda Committee to conduct the runoff.

Sandhu wrote, “The UTGSU regrets the error and apologizes to the Vice-President Finance candidate and to the members for having to conduct a run-off election due to the administrative error.”

Directors-wise, for the second year in a row, no candidates came forward for Division One: Humanities.

For Division Two: Social Sciences, Paloma Nahuelhual, Enrique Szendro, Katrina May Ohaga, Mani Nouri, and Hiba Akbar will serve as Directors.

For Division Three: Physical Sciences, Rayan Awad Alim, Raymond Bhushan, Mohammad Hooman Keshvari, Rouhollah Ayazian, and Arash Fassadi Chimeh will be next year’s Directors.

Division Four: Life Sciences will be served by incoming Directors Nathan Shin, Amanda Baber, Nafia Jahan Mirza, Iris Li, and Tega Ubor.

At UTM, Gary Chatha won unopposed with 97.0 per cent of the vote. For UTSC Director, incumbent Valentyna Kundas won re-election with 100 per cent of the vote.

For referenda, the refundable fee increase for the Students for Barrier-Free Access UTGSU levy was approved with 82.4 per cent of the vote.

The election results will be ratified at the UTGSU Board of Directors meeting on March 31.