Elijah Jones and Riley Evers have been elected the next Notre Dame student body president and vice president.
In an email to The Observer, Notre Dame’s Judicial Council confirmed that Jones and Evers won the election with 54.29% of valid votes.
Meanwhile, McCart and Parikh received 45.71% of the vote. 159 voters out of 2,988 total abstained. Judicial Council vice president of elections Madeline Hutson verified the results at 10:38 p.m. Wednesday night.
34% of Notre Dame students voted in the election.
In a comment to The Observer, Jones wrote, “Riley and I are extremely grateful that over 700 ND students signed our petition, and that over 1500 ND students voted for us! We're also extremely grateful for all the grassroots campaigning people did for us! We didn't have an official campaign team (I made our platform, campaign materials, talked to people in the dining hall, and sent out a bunch of emails), but our friends, and people in our clubs and residence halls, helped get people to vote!”
Jones and Evers were endorsed by The Observer and College Democrats, while College Republicans endorsed McCart and Parikh. The Observer was not immediately able to verify whether other campus groups had issued election endorsements.
“We appreciate all the support we received, and we look forward to fighting for every student's voice to be heard,” Jones wrote.
