Jared Knight came out victorious Thursday night in the elections for president of the Government of the Student Body.

With the last vote accounted for on Tuesday night at midnight, candidates had to wait anxiously for Thursday night’s revealing of elected members to next school year’s GSB.

The race saw Knight, junior in political science, and his running mate Katie Brown, sophomore in history, win the election with 1,542 votes over the 1,110 votes garnered by Jake Swanson, junior in public service and administration in agriculture and business management, and running mate David Bartholomew, junior in political science, history and Spanish.

A total of 2,688 people partook in this year’s election.

“Either way, any team would have done a good job as president and vice president,” Swanson said. “It was a close race, and we are very happy.”

Swanson elaborated by saying that their campaign did a very good job for being put together in three days and then only campaigning for three weeks.

When asked whether he had aspirations to run again for the presidential seat next year Swanson smiled and said: “We’ll see. I’m not sure yet, but I intend to be involved with GSB in the future.”

After the presentation of voting results, the two campaigns exchanged congratulations and conversation for a bit.

“I am very excited right now,” Knight said in reference to his election win. “We’re going to have a strong voice in representing students and their interests.”

“These were two very strong tickets, and it required some innovative campaigning on both parts,” Brown said. “I really think the Knight/Brown brownies really won it for us.”

But it was back to business right after their brief moment of celebration for the pair. The two newly elected officers are already thinking about filling their cabinet and making plans for getting to know the new senators for next year.

In two weeks an email will go out to the whole ISU student body listing cabinet positions available to apply for with interviews for the positions beginning a week after that.

“I plan on going home and celebrating a second victory for Iowa State tonight,” Brown said in reference to Thursday night’s potential for a men’s basketball victory.

Following the presentation Marybeth Konkowski, the election commissioner, stated there will be another election the Monday and Tuesday after Spring Break for the College of Engineering to vote in senators for the college.

She also stated that for the College of Design’s senator election, there were 10 people who received votes, and all 10 of them received one vote. To select a senator for the college, the Election Commission randomly picked a senator from the pool of 10 to represent the College of Design.

“All in all we were very happy with the increase in voters this year, up to 10 percent this year from 8 percent last year, all the campaigns worked very hard to reach out to students and raise awareness, but there is still room to grow,” Konkowski said.