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ELECTIONS
Have a say, get involved and make a difference.
• National Union of Students (5 Delegates)
LENT ELECTIONS • Paid Sabbatical Officers (General Secretary, Treasurer, Education and Welfare, and Communications) • Part-time Executive Officers • Constitutional and Steering Committee (C&S) • Finance and Services Committee (F&S) Elections matter. The Students’ Union has rules about campaigning, budgets, posters, etc to make sure the process is fair. There’s also a “Results Night” party to celcbrate all the hard work and announce the winners. Think LSE is perfect in every conceivable way? Fine - don’t vote. But if you think the School and the Students’ Union has room for improvement, elections are your Elections at LSE are many things to
Hustings at the UGM and in Halls and
chance to have a say. Students need
many people. For some, it’s a way to get
posters all over campus. Not everything
to have a legitimate and strong voice
involved with the Students’ Union and
about elections is old-fashioned, though;
to the School and the more people
improve LSE. For others, it might be the
students can find information about
who vote, the louder and more united
start of a career in politics.
candidate’s positions online and cast
that voice can be. Your representatives
votes online.
ultimately speak for you, so you have
Elections provide an opportunity for
an incentive to make sure the ones you
students to make their voices heard and
There are two rounds of Students’ Union
want get elected! The Students’ Union
express views on how the school and
Elections – the Michaelmas Term Elections
can only thrive with participation in its
Students’ Union should be run.
in Week 4 of Michaelmas Term and the
elections at every level – from Fresher to
Lent Term Elections in Week 8 of Lent Term.
PhD student.
amusing spectacle. For two days each
MICHAELMAS ELECTIONS
See you on Houghton Street!
term, Houghton Street turns into a swarm
• Postgraduate Students’ Officer
of budding politicians offering leaflets,
• General Course Representative
begging for votes, wearing costumes,
• Court of Governors (5 Student
holding signs, and pledging to improve
Representatives)
your student experience. You’ll see
• Academic Board (3 Representatives)
If nothing else, LSESU Elections are an
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