Voting 

For the Students' Union Officer Elections 2025, voting will be live from 9pm on Monday 3rd March 2025, closing at 3pm on Friday 7th March 2025.

Thank you for taking this opportunity to learn how to vote in the Students' Union elections.

In order to cast your votes, you can either follow the unique link sent to you via email when voting is live, or find below the simple steps.

1. Please make sure you have confirmed your account on our website, www.winchesterstudents.co.uk. When you register on the website, you will receive an email to your 'unimail' account with a link to confirm your account. Please ensure you have done this before you click to vote below. You must be registered with our website using your unimail account in order to be eligible to vote!

2. If you have any issues access your account or with voting please email us for assistance.

3. Please consider who is running in this election and read their elections manifestos, which lists their ideas and reasons for wanting the post. You can do this by visiting our 'Meet the Candidates' page and/or you can read candidate manifestos directly via the e-ballot when voting is live.

4. Or if you're ready to go, just hit the vote button below to vote (NB. This link will only take you to the ballot when the election is live, otherwise it will redirect to our homepage. Please see our elections schedule for when voting is live.).

Our elections are undertaken using a single transferable vote (STV) system. This means that you can vote for your first preference, and then your second preference, and so on. For a fun tutorial video (produced by our collegues at Lincoln Student Union) on the transferable vote method, please see here.

Or, to see how the single transferrable vote system works with a role that can have many winners (like our Student Officers), please see this video produced by the Electoral Reform Society.