J Hudson and Dani Borel of “StudentsFIRST” will be the next Student Government President and Vice President after beating out Brooksie Bonvillain and Chris Sellers of “Leading the Way.”
“StudentsFIRST” received 51.1 percent of the vote (2,150 votes), and “Leading the Way” received 48.9 percent (2,057 votes).
Commissioner of Elections Alexis Sarver announced the results at 5 p.m. Wednesday  in Dodson Auditorium.”Leading the Way” took 2,194 votes (40.9 percent) in last week’s general election. “StudentsFIRST” earned 27.9 percent (1,493 votes) of the original vote.Theo Williams and Millena Williams of “Geauxing the Distance” earned 23.9 percent (1,279 votes) in the original election, and Bryan Wooldridge and John Craig of “Two Kings” took 7.4 percent (394 votes).The 4,293 votes in the runoff account for 15 percent of the student body, according to numbers from the Office of Budget and Planning. The 5,315 votes in last week’s election represented 19 percent of the student body.
Check lsureveille.com tonight for a full list of runoff election results.—-Contact Catherine Threlkeld at [email protected]