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Elections Night Live!
A live blog of SUSU Elections 2013, bringing you the latest polls, candidate results, and much more.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteSuch a tough race for all! But now we have all our Sabbatical team, Student Leaders,Union Councillors and Trustees! That’s all for this evening, guys, thanks for joining us!
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteWell done, David Gilani! Our new SUSU President!
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe’re minutes away from finding out who our new President is! Stay tuned!
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteBest of luck to all Presidential candidates! We’re nearly finished in the studio now!
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteWho could forget Michelle Dando in this election? Causing a stir onscreen already, helped along by Mr. Dennis!
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteBest tweet so far according to Ellie is Sam Everard’s happy tweet at being elected the new Wessex Scene editor!
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis one will be tough to call. Too close for comfort.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s the big one! Who will be our new President at SUSU?
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteJoe Hart has the stats! 4158 votes this election so far!
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteApologies again for slow updates. From the WS:Â Congratulations Adam Proudley – your new Sports Participation Officer in the Sports Development Zone! #votesusu. Also, Evan Whyte is our new VP Sports Development!
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe polls are very interesting; could this be a tight race for VP Sports Development?
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteMore tweets from Ellie! ‘One of our presenters looks a little bit like Brian Cox.’ I wonder who that could be…?
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA little hiccup from James Dennis; introducing himself to the camera apparently?!
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteMoving on, it’s nearly time for the penultimate position results to be revealed. But not before a video compilation of all the candidates’ campaigning this week!
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteFrom the Wessex Scene: ‘Further Congratulations to all Student leaders elected in the Welfare Zone and to Alice Gray, New RAG Officer and Student Leader in the Engagement Zone.’
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe crowd is going crazy right now. This night will only get better!
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteCongratulations to Claire, commiserations to Adam and Fiona! 4 VPs have now been chosen, only 3 more to go!
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteApologies for the sporadic updates, traffic to the SUSU website is (obviously!) much higher than normal. But we’ve just announced that Claire Gilbert has been elected VP Engagement!
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteTime to interview our VP Engagement candidates! Big hugs all round!
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Reading Time: < 1 minute4 of our  Sabbatical Team have been elected! We’re now over halfway through our broadcast, stay tuned for more coverage throughout the night!
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAnd our new VP Welfare is… Beckie Thomas!
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteJames Binns grills our Welfare candidates with some very interesting interview questions.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteJoe Hart gives us the lowdown on the polls now for Welfare. Another close race?
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA compilation of this year’s campaigning by our Welfare candidates! Excellent stuff.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteJoe Hart reaffirms our DCI team; well done to all elected!
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe’re back again! Banter between our two presenters, James and James!
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA sneak peek of Grad Ball 2013!
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt will be time to reveal the Welfare team soon! Coming up after the break.
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Reading Time: < 1 minute‘A very polished campaign!’ Sasha to David. Congratulations, David!
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s been an emotional night so far; we’ve elected 3 VPs, stay tuned to find out who else will join the sabbatical team!
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAnd our new VP DCI is David Martin! Congratulations, David!
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteWho will be our new VP Democracy & Creative Industries? Stay tuned!
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteTime for an interview with our DCI candidates!
22.29
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEllie Farmer reads out the latest tweets about our results so far. Some good reactions! But can you think of a better name than DCI?
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteWell done to all elected student leaders and sabbaticals so far! We’ll be back from our ad break soon.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteSo far, we’ve got Oli Coles and David Mendoza-Wilson as part of our new Sabbatical team for SUSU!
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteCongratulations, David, and good luck! Commiserations, Dessie.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAnd the result is in! Our new VP Education is David Mendoza-Wilson. The difference was 173 votes.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe audience seem pretty electric! Cannot wait for the VP Education result.
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Reading Time: < 1 minute‘It’s a two horse race, it looks like it could be a photo finish!’ – James Dennis.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAnd now Joe Hart gives us the stats. This position may be the closest one yet, if we look at Facebook and manifesto page views as well Soton Tab’s poll.
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Reading Time: < 1 minute‘I try to be inspirational!’ – Dessie.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteRemember to keep tweeting your comments and reactions with the hashtag #votesusu.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAnd Dessie gives us her best howl!
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat was David Mendoza-Wolfson’s highlight of the night? A guy came up to him and shouted: ‘I voted for you!’
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwo strong candidates for VP Education, but who will win?
22.05
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJoe Hart, our statsman: ‘This election is horrifically close!’
22.04
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAnd we’re back with your host, James Dennis!
22.01
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAnd now we’re taking a short advert break. We’ll be back shortly.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteNew Student Communities team are now on stage! Well done to all of them.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteCongratulations, Oli Coles!
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteApologies, that was an error, it was James Brant who stated his campaign team have been amazing.
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Reading Time: < 1 minute‘The campaign team have been amazing!’ – Oli Coles.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAnd Oli is our new VP Student Communities by only 76 more votes!
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe’ll soon know who our new VP Student Communities will be!
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Communities student leader results have just been announced!
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteTime to go to our resident roving reporter in the Cube, Rosie Wright!
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe lovely Ellie Farmer is here with SUSUtv and wants to know what you think on Twitter! Remember to tweet in using the hashtag #votesusu.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis particular position is apparently too close to call! Makes the result all the more exciting.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteJoe Hart gives us the lowdown on stats for each campaign.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteJames Binns is now interviewing the candidates for VP Communities, which include Oli “Wally” Coles and James “Anchorman” Brant. Will the two remain friends after elections?
21.40
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIntroducing James Dennis, James Binns, Joe Hart, and Ellie Farmer as your studio hosts for the night!
21.34
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe’re kicking off the night with this year’s Lipdub! Gotta love a bit of Carly Rae Jepson!
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAnd we’re live! Let Elections Results Night commence!
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteNot long until SUSUtv go live for Elections Results Night 2013! Stay tuned!
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