So, from highest to lowest:
| POLL | YES | NO |
| Drake (Mgmt) | 80.6% | 19.4% |
| U. College | 80.0% | 20.0% |
| Bannatyne | 79.1% | 20.9% |
| Armes (Science) | 78.2% | 21.8% |
| Flet. Arg. (Arts) | 76.6% | 23.4% |
| UC (2 booths) | 71.1% | 28.9% |
| F. Kennedy | 66.2% | 33.8% |
| Inner City | 63.8% | 36.2% |
| Agriculture | 58.5% | 41.5% |
Well this is interesting. The most supportive voters showed up at the polling booth nearest to students in the Faculty of Management. This would defy conventional logic - don't management students lean to the right? But the Sran slate's Vice-President (Internal) candidate was a student in Management. And this year, the only candidate running for any slate from Management is part of... Students United! Leanne Rajotte is pursuing a Bachelor of Commerce with a major in Supply Chain Management and Logistics (whatever that is.) It's also true that Management students rejected a proposed tuition increase in 2003, so maybe they're not so uniformly right-leaning.
So will we see a left-leaning slate pull out the win in (arguably, but arguably not at all) one of the university's most right-leaning schools? Personally, I don't think so. Last year's candidate from Management was a well-known member of the Commerce Students' Association Council, while Rajotte is not on Council at all. Also, voting in a "Yes"/"No" election is a different situation than an election with multiple slates.
Also of note is the importance of the aggie vote. Since the Faculty of Agriculture has a larger-relative-to-other-faculties proportion of students from rural Manitoba, and since individuals from rural areas trend to the right, one might expect the aggies to be critical of left-leaning slates. And last year, they certainly were - no faculty voted "No" in higher proportions.
The Inner City campus also voted "No" in high proportions. What you don't see here is that this campus also spoiled a proportionally high number of ballots. I'm not sure what to make of that.
Voting just ended by my clock. The waiting begins.
3 comments:
Too bad there was no voting booth in Engineering, I would have loved to see those numbers. The UMSU election was a week or two after the Engineering tuition referendum, and a lot of students vere still very angry at UMSU.
come on... the suspense is killing me!!!
I am not sure we need our own voting booth. We only have about 1000 students and are closer to U. Centre than a lot of other places are to their nearest voting booth, so it would probably be a waste of money to pay the poll clerks. There are probably places that would need one more than us. But I have to admit that it might be an interesting statistic, particularly as Clean Slate were the only ones I saw campaigning in engineering (although Ben seemed to have trouble getting his head around the concept of me both being an engineering student and voting Students United).
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