Weinberg junior Gauri Adarsh and Medill junior John Sisco won this week’s election for the Associated Student Government presidency. 

The two ran a campaign that promised to increase opportunities for student engagement with ASG officers, writing a resolution to express their feelings toward Northwestern’s administration, placing ASG’s funding into an interest-bearing trust account to enable more spending, as well as other policies.

Adarsh and Sisco defeated the tickets of McCormick sophomore Nicholas Johnson and SESP junior Nur Yalinbas, SESP sophomore JJ Nabors-Moore and McCormick sophomore Patrick Eleazar, and Weinberg sophomore Alan Hu and SESP junior Noah Cohrs.

Two thousand thirty-nine students voted in this year’s election, an 11% increase from last year’s election. 

“It’s a massive relief,” Adarsh said. “This has been one of the longest weeks of our life. We’re so thankful for everyone who voted for us. We promise we will make do on what we’ve said.”

Hu and Cohrs led Adarsh and Sisco by 0.6% through round one of voting. Hu and Cohrs led throughout the ranked choice vote until the final round, when Yalinbas and Johnson were removed from the ballot. By the end of the final round, Adarsh and Sisco defeated Hu and Cohrs 52.89% to 47.11%.

Hu and Cohrs ran what they referred to as a “joke campaign,” with policies such as putting deer on Deering Meadow, banning Jeffrey Epstein from campus, annexing the University of Chicago and destroying the Technological Institute.

This year was the second straight year with four tickets on the ballot. Adarsh and Sisco were on last year’s ticket, but were defeated by then-McCormick junior James La Fayette Jr. and then-Weinberg sophomore Jamal Omoniyi.

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