The Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) student government election ceremony was held in-person at the University Student Union (USU) south plaza on Thursday afternoon.
About 35 people attended the ceremony to hear the ASI student government winners who will serve in office for the 2022 to 2023 school year.
This year’s voter turnout was one of the highest compared to recent years, according to a tweet CSULB President Jane Close Conoley sent out.
Beth Lesen, vice president of student affairs, announced the ASI student government winners at the ceremony.
President-elect
Isaac Julian
Julian won 54% of the majority vote from the Beach community with 2,450 votes total.
Executive Vice President-elect
Diamond Byrd
Byrd won 76% of the majority vote from the Beach community with 3,421 votes total.
Vice President of Finance-elect
Mitali Jain
Jain won 63% of the majority vote from the Beach community with 2,862 votes total.
Senator at-Large-elect
Verena Mikhail
Mikhail won 30% of the majority vote from the Beach community with 2,207 votes total.
Teresa Falcon
Falcon won 24% of the majority vote from the Beach community with 1,795 votes total.
Fidel Vasquez
Vasquez won 22% of the majority vote from the Beach community with 1,667 votes total.
Alejandro Rojas
Rojas won 24% of the majority vote from the Beach community with 1,790 votes total.
Trustee-at-Large-elect
Samantha Schoner
Schoner won 36% of the majority vote from the Beach community with 2,511 votes total.
Jeremy Ramos
Ramos won 24% of the majority vote from the Beach community with 1,702 votes total.
Akshay Ramesh Waghmare
Ramesh Waghmare won 19% of the majority vote from the Beach community with 1,380 votes total.
Newton Bao
Bao won 20% of the majority vote from the Beach community with 1,423 votes total.
Senator-elect, College of Business
Daniel Rodriguez
Rodriguez won 100% of the majority vote from the Beach community with 534 votes total.
Senator-elect, College of Health and Human Services
Jocelyn Pena
Pena won 100% of the majority vote from the Beach community with 811 votes total.
Senator-elect, College of Education
Nidhin Varghese
Varghese won 100% of the majority vote from the Beach community with 258 votes total.
Senator-elect, College of the Arts
Mariel Carrasco
Carrasco won 100% of the majority vote from the Beach community with 381 votes total.
Senator-elect, College of Engineering
Dhrumil Shah
Shah won 100% of the majority vote from the Beach community with 686 votes total.
For more information on the ASI election results, visit their website. Further election updates will be included soon.
Editor’s note: This story was updated on Monday, March 21 at 12:48 p.m. to list all Senator At-Large elects as well as Trustees At-Large elects.