By Oscar Uwimana

Between June 29 and 30, the USIU-Africa student body held their Electoral College elections on Blackboard and physically at voting booths provided at the cafeteria for students that had no access to computers. The elections were very successful and all the positions in all the 6 Schools were competitive.

The results were announced virtually on July 1 at 4:00pm by the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission Prof. Maina Muchara. The results were then shared with students through Blackboard. From a total of total of 28 candidates, only 17 emerged successful, with one position (Electoral College representative for Graduate students) having a tie of 69 votes for both Njuguna Ngungi and Biko Mangula. The electoral commission has organized a rerun election that will take place on Wednesday, July 6, 2022.

The elected candidates will be sworn in on Friday, July 8, 2022 at the auditorium. Below is a list of all the winners from the different schools and the number of votes obtained.