Josh Baylin and Eugene Kim will face Ben Singer and Ursula Dimmling in next week's runoff.
Baylin and Kim received 279 of the 1,009 votes cast while Singer and Dimmling nabbed 495 votes. The third pair of candidates, Neera Makwana and Shawn Brooks, received 228 votes, knocking them out of the race.
Baylin said he and Kim were ready to move to the next phase of the campaign and were looking forward to the runoff elections next week. "We're feeling good that we made it to the runoff," Baylin said. "I think we have a lot of work to do in the next week. I'm confident that we will be able to mobilize the people we need to get all that we need done."
Singer said he and Dimmling will not change their campaign strategy for the next week. "We hope that the people who came out to vote for us today will come out again next week," he said. "We're just going to run with the same plan."
Before the results were released, many candidates said they were nervous about the outcome but were anxious to see how people voted. "I'm just ready to get the results and get my life back," Brooks said. "The first thing I'm going to do after they make the announcement is call my momma and tell her what happened."
Makwana said she was unhappy with the election's outcome, but she did wish the best for those candidates still in the race. "I'm disappointed, and I know that there was a lot of confusion on how to vote," Makwana said. "'Cause if a junior had senior standing, they had to go to the Student Union in order to vote. I myself tried to vote earlier from my room, and I could not do it."
Baylin and Kim ran while promoting a senior gift of a water fountain memorializing the late Chancellor Michael Hooker, which would be built in the area between Davis Library and Lenoir Hall.
They also want to have senior class social functions and have better job fairs.
Singer and Dimmling will continue to champion having an entire set of risers at basketball games exclusively for seniors, more parking on campus for seniors, improving the current University career services and more social interaction within the class.
