Vision triumphed over simplicity in the Government of the Student Body Thursday.

Angela Groh won the presidential election by a wide margin of more than 1,500 votes over challenger Henry Alliger.

“It’s a little surreal, but I’m excited,” Groh said.

Groh received 3,521 votes to Alliger’s 2,014.

Groh said she had been working on the “Vision to Reality” campaign with her running mate, Chris Deal, for so long that she was ready to start putting it into action.

She said the first item of business as president-elect was to get the cabinet applications in order and to get ready for the transition.

Louis Kishkunas, Groh’s campaign manager, said the win was a testament to all the hard work by Groh supporters.

Alliger said he offered his congratulations to Groh and Deal.

Sarah Walter, Alliger’s running mate, said she was glad students turned out to vote, but she is worried about an unproductive year for GSB.

“I’d really like to see what they are going to do after the second week when they accomplish everything,” Walter said.

Sophia Magill, GSB president, said the president-elect should keep in mind that all students are represented by the GSB president — not just the students who voted for Groh.

Magill said all four of the executive candidates would have been excellent executives.

William Rock, GSB vice president, said he was surprised by the voter turnout.

“I don’t know where the hell all these votes came from,” Rock said.

He said the election was an inside campaign, with all greek and GSB candidates, and it defies the laws of politics that voting turnout went up from last year.

Caleb Shinn, GSB election commissioner, set down a packet of the breakdown of the election before the results were announced, creating a cheer for Groh and Deal’s victory.

“I’d like to thank everybody for running, and this election made me realize that I don’t like politics,” Shinn said.

Write-in candidate Jon Crosbie, senior in pre-medicine and Daily columnist, came in third place with 18 votes, followed by Dan Sherman, freshman in liberal arts and sciences-open option, with 11 votes.

Shinn said the Frederiksen Court Association senate race was contested after candidate Randy Gebhardt, senior in electrical engineering, did not get his biography uploaded because of complications in the voting system. The matter has been turned over to the Frederiksen Court Community Council, and a run-off election between Gebhardt and Travis Hilscher, sophomore in pre-architecture, will occur by March 31.