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Only one Student Government party entered the Fall 2025 election. But UF students still lined up at the Reitz Student Union, Norman Education Library and other campus polling locations to cast their ballots in races that are largely uncontested.
Despite canvassing, tabling and campaigning efforts, UF Student Government elections have a low turnout rate. But among large public universities, UF isn’t alone.Student turnout for elections is historically lowIn the Fall 2024 SG election, about 10,000 UF students and graduate students cast ballots, based on data from UF SG’s Financial Reports and Results.
The UF student voter turnout for Student Government elections varies every year.
Vision Party is the only Student Government political party running in the Fall 2025 election — the first time in recent SG history.
Gainesville Police and the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office arrested 21-year-old UF political science senior Tyler Do on Tuesday for viewing and distributing child pornography.
La Asamblea Estudiantil de Hispano-Latine, un evento anual de bienvenida, continuará este año con casi la mitad del presupuesto que tuvo anteriormente, uniéndose a otras asambleas de bienvenida de la UF que perdieron su designación como Evento Insignia.
The Hispanic-Latine Student Assembly, an annual welcoming event, will go on this year with nearly half the budget it once had, joining other UF welcome assemblies that lost their Signature Event designations.
Happy first week Gators, and welcome to The Swamp! Whether you’re stepping onto campus for the very first time or returning for another chapter in your journey here, I am beyond excited to greet you as this year’s Student Body president.
Vision Party celebrated a landslide victory in the Student Senate and cleared the executive ticket contest Wednesday night.
Students have the chance to decide who will fill 50 seats in the student senate representing various colleges, in addition to executive positions like student body president during the Spring 2025 Student Government elections. Voting will take place Tuesday and Wednesday.
With student government elections approaching on Feb. 25 and 26, Change, Vision and Watch Party officials have spent the month of February rolling out their platforms on social media and spreading the word across campus.
Hundreds of students were able to pay off their parking tickets by donating canned food through the UF Food for Fines program.
Across Florida, universities share the existence of student government. Though most share a structure that mirrors the United States government, not all student governments look the same structurally or culturally.
A new Student Government program will provide students the opportunity to pay off their parking citations using food donations.
Hello, my name is Austin Britton. I am a third-year graduate student in geography at UF. I am focused on climate science and equity for my research, with a background in meteorology and data science.
This semester’s UF Student Government elections will be one of the most boring in recent years. After a successful gerrymander, Vision Party is guaranteed to sweep the 37 off campus seats through the tried-and-true strategy of Greek life voter coercion. Whether it be refusing a chicken parm dinner to those who don’t place their “I voted” sticker on their house’s sticker board, voting to get points from their house or receiving alcohol for votes, the practice of “block voting” has ensured over a century of Greek-dominated student government.
Vision Party swept Senate seats in this Fall’s UF Student Government election season, maintaining its majority about a year after it formed in Fall 2023.
The first day of Student Government elections brought out over 5,000 students, despite Hurricane Milton poised to make landfall Wednesday.
Following UF’s decision to cancel classes on Wednesday and Thursday, Supervisor of Elections Lexi Sederopoulos said Wednesday’s SG elections will be moved to Monday, October 14, from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
UF campus will be closed this Wednesday, Oct. 9, and Thursday, Oct. 10, due to Hurricane Milton, the university announced in a press release. All academic and student-related activities will be suspended, including online classes and exams. This interferes with the Fall 2024 Student Government elections, which are currently scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday. The SG Supervisor of Elections will make an announcement regarding changes to the election schedule.At this time, UF has not announced plans to evacuate on-campus residents and recommends that those who live in residence halls should plan to shelter in place. Those who live off campus should follow local and state guidance for preparing for a tropical storm or hurricane, UF said in a press release. Florida Fresh Dining announced Gator Corner and The Eatery at Broward Hall will be open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. according to its website. The Graham and Rawlings markets will also be open Wednesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Reitz Union market, Starbucks and Panda Express will be open Thursday from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. UF Health hospitals and clinical practices are continuing normal operations, according to the press release. More information on UF Health closures can be found here.
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