Tuesday, April 21, 2015 5ELECTION RESULTS The Daily Californian

Mixed feelingsRank the following campus issues in order of which you find most pressing.

Tuition and fees Academic experience Mental health Sexual assault Sustainability Diversity Crime Divestment

Tuition and fees and mental health were prioritized by all groups. Among the Greek community, sexual as-sault was ranked, on average, first by females and fifth by males. The importance of sexual assault also de-creased uniformly with increasingly conservative political a�liation. All groups but one ranked divestment as their lowest priority.

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All Male Female WhiteEast

AsianSouth Asian

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Other race LGBTIQQA

Student Action

Cal-SERVE

Greekmales

Greekfemales

Veryliberal

Lib-eral

Mod-erate

Conser-vative

Examiningthe

electorate

In the climax of last week’s ASUC tabulations ceremony in Wheeler Auditorium, deafening cheers erupted from one side of the room as CalSERVE swept all four partisan executive seats for the fi rst time since 2008.

The other side of the room, fi lled with Student Action sup-porters, celebrated its seven sen-ators-elect but was noticeably quieter. Though the party ran candidates for all but one par-

tisan executive position, none were elected.

In a political system in which about one-fourth of the elector-ate changes yearly, public opin-ion can be unpredictable, and party lines often shift from year to year. It’s not clear how each of the approximately 12,000 vot-ers in this year’s election came to his or her fi nal decision, though students often echo popularly held ideas: Enough Facebook likes guarantee a spot in the sen-ate, Student Action relies on the Greek system for support, and CalSERVE’s platforms aren’t tangible enough for some stu-

dents.As ballots were cast earlier

this month, The Daily Califor-nian conducted its fi rst voter survey to better understand the motives and patterns behind voting behavior. The Daily Cal asked respondents to answer questions about candidates and campus issues, using demo-graphic information to examine which of the popular specula-tions are based in fact.

More than 600 students representing a wide range of campus constituencies took the survey. Below are some of the fi ndings.

By Sahil Chinoyand Chloee Weinernewsdesk@dailycal.org

ALAA ELSHAHAWI/STAFF

If you want to see more graphs and data from the 2015 ASUC general elections and read more about the results of the The Daily Californian’s election survey, visit votersurvey.dailycal.org/2015.

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