Vernon ‘10 clinches student body presidency
By Emma Fidel, The Dartmouth Staff
Published on Tuesday, April 21, 2009
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Frances Vernon '10 and Cory Cunningham '10 were overwhelmingly elected student body president and vice president, respectively, the Elections Planning and Advisory Committee reported early Tuesday morning.
Vernon garnered more than 380 first-choice votes over opponents Boyd Lever '10 and John Nolan '10, who received 715 and 290 first-choice votes, respectively, after eight rounds of instant-runoff voting. The instant-runoff voting process allowed students to rank candidates, including write-in candidates, and eliminated the candidate with the fewest first-choice votes after each round of counting.
Cunningham received almost 1,033 votes after the seventh round of voting, and won by a margin of 531 votes in the last round against opponent Phil Aubart '10.