Editor's Note: This story has been updated with comments from the candidates and additional results.
Junior Taliajah "Teddy" Vann has been elected as student body president, the UNC Board of Elections announced around 3:15 a.m. Wednesday.
Vann received 47.03 percent of the votes cast in the student body president election, defeating her opponents, junior Ethan Phillips, sophomore Sam Robinson and junior Sage Staley.
“You want a president, I think, who is fiery, who has that passion that they’re going to bring not only to this office but to everything that they do," Vann told The Daily Tar Heel in an interview last week.
This year, 4,246 total voters participated in the student body president election — 13.72 percent of all eligible voters, according to results from the BOE. This is up 2.89 percent from last year's voter turnout.
There were a total of 30,950 eligible voters this year. The total is calculated using current enrollment data from the UNC registrar's office.
Of the 4,246 votes cast, Phillips, Robinson and Staley received 23.88 percent, 14.48 percent and 13.14 percent of the votes, respectively. Write-in candidates received 62 votes — 1.46 percent of the total votes cast.
Given that no candidate received over 50 percent of the vote in the initial count, the instant runoff mechanism was necessary, the BOE said.
Vann will be sworn in as student body president in April, succeeding current Student Body President Lamar Richards.
"I am more grateful than I could ever communicate for this opportunity to make history at our university and to empower our student body," Vann said in a statement posted on her social media Wednesday afternoon.
Robinson said in a statement that he looks forward to finishing his term in the Undergraduate Senate and and finding another way to serve in the coming year.
"Last night, I reached out to Teddy Vann to concede the race for Student Body President," he said. "The Carolina Community has spoken, and I respect the choice they have made."
Phillips also posted a congratulatory statement for Vann on Twitter.
"I know that she will do an amazing job representing every Tar Heel," he said.
The electorate that does not occupy the student body president office will elect a president to serve as executive officer of their specific interests. Because Vann is an undergraduate, this person will be the Graduate and Professional Student Government president. Third-year doctoral student Theodore Nollert was elected as GPSG student body president on Feb. 16.
For the student body election, there were 4,434 total voters, or 14.33 percent of eligible voters.
Winners of other races
Residence Hall Association President
Nate Worley
Carolina Athletic Association President
Lacey Ragan
Rising Senior Class President and Vice-President
Kartik Tyagi and Keisha Solanki
Undergraduate Senate District 1
America Juarez-Maldonado
Anna Crist
Arthi Annadurai
Balasi Anirudhu Bommu
Callie Stevens
Caroline Bull
Colby Conrad
Daniel Mercedes
David Vashakidze
Davis Troutman
Fabrice Gray
Grant Bean
Grayson Coleman
Gabriel “Tanner” Baity
Husein Syed
Jared Martin
Nathanael Haynes
Nicholas Armstrong
Phillip Vo
Pierce Kreider
Reilly Kungl
Sam Duggan
Samuel Hendrix
Taylor Nguyen
Undergraduate Senate District 2
Andrew Gary
Bryson Piscitelli
Charles Underwood
Xuan Chen
One seat remains open
Undergraduate Senate District 3
Anna Morris
Damon Grim
Fatima Perez Dominguez
Kimberly Holden
Louise de Quinsay
Maddox Addy
Maddux Vernon
Pallavi Maladkar
William Troutman
Undergraduate Senate District 4
Atharv Kripak
David Bass
Isabelle Gosling
Jack McDermott
Matthew Gallagher
Matthew Spencer Young
Undergraduate Senate District 5
Christian Phillips
Julianna Robbins
Noelle Harff
Undergraduate Senate District 6
Alhagi Faal
Deniz Erdal
Gianluca Ciuffreda
James Freeland
Kabir Dewan
Patrick Gregson
Patrick Li
Stefano Dongowski
One seat remains open
Undergraduate Senate District 7
Atharva Vispute
Callan Baruch
Undergraduate Senate District 8
Krista Lang
Mackie Tate Tygart
Undergraduate Senate District 9
Elliot Gualano
One seat remains open
GPSG Special Election: Biomedical and Health Informatics
Maura Pauline
Special Election for the GPSG Representative Unit: Romance Studies
Giuseppina Gemboni
In keeping with the Student Code, the UNC Board of Elections said that the election for the Graduate and Professional Student Government student body president will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 15 from 12:00 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. on the Heel Life website.
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