Yamini Bhandari ’17 is Cornell’s newly elected student trustee, according to election results released by the Office of the Assemblies.
Bhandari defeated Blake Brown ’17 and Sam Morrison ’17.
Brown actually received the most votes out of any candidate, 2214, compared to Bhandari’s 2126 and Morrison’s 825. Due to the single transferable vote system used by the Office of the Assemblies (voters rank their preferences from 1-3), third-place Morrison was eliminated and the votes cast for him were transferred to Bhandari and Brown accordingly. Bhandari received more votes after the transfer, defeating Brown 2665 to 2401.
Due to an error on part of the Office of the Assemblies, the vote that took place last week was declared void, and a re-vote was conducted starting Monday.
