Cody West and Cody Smith will serve as the next Student Government president and vice president, according to preliminary election results announced Thursday evening.

The two secured 54 percent of the overall vote and received nearly 1,000 more votes than opponents Conner Tillo and Rachael Barnes, who secured 41 percent of the votes.

Write-ins for president and vice president received just 4 percent of the total votes overall with 321 votes. Those running an announced write-in campaign included Anthony Chavez and Emeline Hanscel, who were hoping to bring a conservative voice to Student Government. 

West and Smith campaigned on four main issues they hope to tackle during their administration including building community, restoring tradition, reinventing residency and working toward purposeful outreach. 

West currently serves as vice president of Student Government with Cole Staudt, and Smith currently serves as the Student Government public relations chair and United Residents off-campus senator. 

Noah Collins, election commissioner, said the voter turnout this year was fantastic, with nearly 1 in 4 students voting.

This is almost a 10 percent jump in voter participation from last year, Collins said, and nearly double what the turnout was two years ago. 

“I have no words. I’m a busy student, and I can’t thank every other busy student who came out and showed their support. I truly can’t thank everyone enough. I can’t wait to do this for another year,” West said.

Smith backed this sentiment.

Outside of the executive slate, students cast their vote for all 37 senate seats available. Other candidates elected include:

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences senators

• Kelly Culbertson, 588 votes
• Cody West, 784 votes

College of Design senator

• Jonathan Kirner, 160 votes

College of Engineering senators

• Rachael Barnes, 1,155 votes
• Rachel Origer, 617 votes
• Kathryn Paszkiewicz, 654 votes
• Connor Theisen, 751 votes

Graduate College senators

• Colton Kreber, 111 votes
• Humair Nadeem, 123 votes
• Izak Christensen (write-in), 9 votes

College of Human Sciences senators

• Logan L. Maxwell, 1,075 votes
• Wyatt Scheu (write-in), 6 votes

College of Business senators

• Scott Moss, 1,048 votes
• Hunter Kuta (write-in), 42 votes

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences senators

• Hannah Scott, 616 votes
• Zoey Shipley, 623 votes
• Conner Tillo, 837 votes

College of Veterinary Medicine senator

• Holly Salzbrenner (write-in), 7 votes
• Mattie Hogg (write-in), 7 votes

Campustown residence senator

• Steven Valentino, 193 votes

Collegiate Panhellenic Council residence senator

• Natalie Pellegrino, 569 votes

Frederiksen Court Apartments residence senator

• Caroline Warmuth, 288 votes

Interfraternity Council residence senator

• Riley McCloskey, 42 votes

Inter-Residence Hall Association residence senators

• Cody Woodruff, 1,402 votes
• Jacob Zirkelbach, 1,147 votes
• Aaron DeJoode (write-in), 50 votes
• John Hoelzer (write-in), 33 votes
• Juan Bibiloni (write-in), 33 votes

Off-campus residence senators

• Isaiah Baker, 1,275 votes
• Kelsey Culbertson, 1,445 votes
• Samuel Freestone, 1,213 votes
• Austen Giles, 1,205 votes
• Aleeza Mian, 1,200 votes
• Kathryn Neilson, 1,421 votes
• Samuel Rankin, 1,240 votes
• Cody Smith, 1,820 votes
• Jack Utterback, 1,237 votes

University student apartment community senator

• Joonghyun Park, 191 votes

Reporting from Rachel Ori contributed to this story.