This year’s Student Government presidential election will continue with  a run-off election between the leaders of the Next Level ticket, Sen. Andy Palermo and Phoebe Hathorn, and the More ’09 ticket, Stuart Watkins and Martina Sheuermann. More than 300 students packed Dodson Auditorium on Wednesday night, filling the hall with applause, cheers and congratulatory hugs as the winners of this year’s SG elections were announced. Commissioner of Elections Jordan Milazzo began the announcement ceremony by welcoming current SG President Colorado Robertson to greet the students present. Robertson greeted the crowd and applauded the candidates for running a clean campaign that focused on the issues of the election instead of the personalities involved. He also told the candidates who didn’t win their particular elections to remain undaunted and continue working for the University. The More ‘09 campaign earned 35.21 percent of the votes and movedon to a run-off election with the Next Level campaign which earned 29.76 percent of the votes. Tickets not proceeding to the run-offs were the Unity ‘09 campaign with 11.76 percent of the votes, the One Voice ‘09 campaign with 18.71 percent of the votes and the Make it Reign campaign, which took 4.56 percent of the votes. About 33 percent of the student body — or 7,771 students — voted in this season’s presidential election, according to Milazzo. Of this season’s 72 different races, 44 were moved into run-offs. Milazzo said there are 128 students left in the run-off election. Milazzo said the Election Board would be spending the next week reviewing the expenditures of each campaign and preparing to advertise the run-off election. Milazzo said the results of the general election wouldn’t be final until Friday at 4:30 p.m., the deadline for candidates to file election complaints. The run-off election will be on March 31, and the results will be announced the following day. Run-off election results will be validated on April 3. Once the announcements had been made, the candidates’ supporters flooded the winners with praise and congratulations. Palermo said he and his campaign would continue doing what they had been doing during the past weeks to try and win over the voters who had not voted for his ticket. “I really feel like we’re going to take it home next week and snatch up those extra voters,” Palermo said. Hathorn said her heart stopped beating when she saw her ticket alongside the More ‘09 ticket in the run-off. Hathorn said she and her ticket would be back to working hard in the coming week. “Tonight we sleep, tomorrow we campaign,” Hathorn said. Watkins said he and his ticket would celebrate Wednesday night but get right back to campaigning the following day. “We’re going right back to the drawing board, and we’re going to do what we’ve been doing for the past couple of weeks,” Watkins said. Scheuermann said she was humbled by the opportunity to have another week of campaigning with the students and praised the members of her ticket for their support and determination. She said she had been comfortable going into election night but didn’t want to be overconfident before the results were in. “This is about feeling comfortable in what you believe in and giving it your all,” Scheuermann said. Also added onto the ballot was the resolution from the Temporary Student Initiatives Committee which allowed students to choose between three options for spending $5,000 of their student fees. Of the three resolutions, 47.05 percent of students voted for more campus recycling bins.—-Contact Adam Duvernay at [email protected]