SGA presidential incumbent and Next Party candidate Patrick Ronk will remain in his position for the 2015-16 academic year, according to the election results announcement last night.

Ronk secured 75 percent of the 4,256 votes cast online between Wednesday and Friday to beat Voice Party candidate Ori Gutin, according to a Student Government Association voting system document.

After the announcement in the Nyumburu Amphitheater outside of Stamp Student Union, members of the Next Party — who won all of the contested positions in the election — huddled together in a circle chanting, “Patrick! Patrick! Patrick!”

“I thought we ran a really great campaign, a really clean campaign, and that shows to students,” said Ronk, who is the third SGA president in 20 years to serve two consecutive terms. “I’m just really ecstatic that people want me and want people who are in the SGA to keep doing what we’re doing, and I’m really happy I get another year.”

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The Next Party’s other elected executive board members for the 2015-16 year include Shabnam Ahmed for academic affairs vice president, Sarah Niezelski for financial affairs vice president and Katherine Swanson for student affairs vice president. The executive board members each amassed at least 70 percent of their respective votes, according to an SGA voting system document.

This year, Ronk helped lead initiatives such as the state passage of an intern protection bill, the University Athletic Council’s approval of alcohol sales at athletic events and the creation of a police advisory board to foster communication between the student body and University Police.

For the year ahead, Ronk said he intends to push for more tailgating for student groups, a student bereavement policy, lobbying for sexual assault education, fundraising help for student groups and more direct communication with students.

The election turnout trumped that of last year, when about 900 students voted in an uncontested election, according to an SGA voting system document.

Joe Calizo, SGA adviser, said the voter turnout this year for a two-party election is in the normal range for student elections at this university.

“It’s usually in the 15 to 16 percent range [of the undergraduate population], so it’s on average,” Calizo said.

The Next Party’s elected behavioral and social sciences college candidate, sophomore government and politics major Meredith Lightstone, said although the election turnout looks like a clean sweep, it was not an easy contest.

“Everyone put 110 percent into this,” Lightstone said. “It was not an easy win — even if the numbers might make it seem like that.”

While the Next Party celebrated after the election results announcement, the Voice Party stood together in silence.

Gutin said he is disappointed that the hard work and effort the Voice Party put into this year’s elections did not garner results, but he congratulated the Next Party on its wins.

“To see the disappointment on all of [our party members’] faces of not being able to do all of the things that we talked about doing together, that’s really hard for me to take in,” Gutin said. “It was a good campaign. … The point isn’t to win. It’s to provide what is best for the constituents. … The student body voted for the Next Party, so I congratulate them on running a great campaign.”

Gutin said he hopes to stay involved in the SGA next year but is stepping down as sustainability director after two years in the position to give the opportunity to someone else.

Regardless of the results, the Voice Party members are proud of their campaigning, uncontested North Hill representative Fasika Delessa said.

“We’re really proud of the campaign that we ran,” the freshman finance and management major said. “We talked to hundreds of students over the past week, and I know all of us looking back wouldn’t change a thing.”

CORRECTION: Due to an editing error, a previous version of this story incorrectly stated that Meredith Lightstone was the elected biological and social sciences college candidate. She was the elected behavioral and social sciences college candidate. This article has been updated.