UPDATED: 12:03 a.m.Brandon Levin ’13, current Yale College Council treasurer, has won the YCC presidency, defeating Rustin Fakheri ’12 and Jimmy Murphy ‘13 with an overwhelming 67.84 percent of the vote. Omar Njie ’13 has been elected YCC vice president.

“I am ecstatic; I couldn’t be more excited,” Levin said. “My opponents both ran incredible campaigns, and I am extremely excited to win the council.”

Levin said he received the news of his victory after performing with his a cappella group, the Spizzwinks(?), in an evening concert. He was surrounded by approximately 30 Spizzwinks(?) and their parents as they waited for Annie Shi ’12, chair of the YCC election committee, to call and inform them of the election results.

Njie, who is currently the Sophomore Class Council President, said he was also very excited by the news of his election victory.

“I’m incredibly grateful for this opportunity,” he said. “I’m really excited to serve the Yale community with the rest of the new YCC Executive Board.”

Shi said she is confident that next year’s Executive Board will be a strong one. She added that the election committee strictly enforced campaign rules, which controlled the placement of campaign posters and the use of email panlists to garner votes.

Still, Shi said some candidates were overzealous in their campaigns, adding that Ivan Fan ’14 was disqualified from the vice-presidential race after breaching students’ privacy by entering their rooms without permission.

Shi also said that while candidates were allowed to send emails to individual students, Rustin Fakheri ’12 used a program to automatically send personalized emails to lists of recipients. Fakheri was not disqualified because the YCC did not have a clear policy on the use of such programs at the time, Shi said.

The Sophomore Class Council race remains undecided. John Gonzalez ’14 won 30.96% of the vote while Bryan Epps ’14 took 28.22%. Since there was no 5% margin of vote, as required by YCC election rules, there will be a run-off vote starting on Monday at 9:00 a.m. and ending on Tuesday at 11:59 p.m.

The full results of the elections appear below:

Events Director

Katherine Donley (ES 2013) – 1204 – 51.04%

James Campbell (PC 2013) – 1155 – 48.96%

Abstentions – 491

President

Brandon Levin (DC 2013) – 1776 – 67.84%

James Murphy (DC 2013) – 510 – 19.48%

Rustin Fakheri (BR 2012) – 332 – 12.68%

Abstentions – 232

Secretary

Matt Williams (BK 2013) – 960 – 46.65%

Caroline Smith (DC 2014) – 592 – 28.77%

Obaid Syed (JE 2014) – 506 – 24.59%

Abstentions – 792

Treasurer

Archit Sheth-Shah (MC 2013) – 893 – 40.55%

Cece Xie (TC 2013) – 587 – 26.66%

Eric Eliasson (BK 2014) – 461 – 20.94%

Kwabena Boateng (PC 2014) – 261 – 11.85%

Abstentions – 648

UOFC Chair

Allen Granzberg (DC 2013) – 1194 – 57.88%

Hassan Alkazemi (BR 2013) – 869 – 42.12%

Abstentions – 787

Vice President

Omar Njie (SM 2013) – 1228 – 51.62%

Kat Lau (DC 2013) – 1151 – 48.38%

Abstentions – 471

Junior Class Council President

Hyungmee Lim (MC 2013) – 363 – 51.13%

Shivani Vohra (DC 2013) – 347 – 48.87%

Abstentions – 89

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