By Evan Doherty [1]
BELLEVILLE – Loyalist College has a new student government.
The results of the elections held this week were announced Wednesday afternoon.
Jenish Patel, who is in second year of the civil engineering technician program [2], is the new president of the student government. He received 334 votes, 34 per cent of the total. Patel served as first-year leader on the student government last year and is the only returning member this year.
During his campaign, Patel said he hopes to improve the transit system [3] for students by working with Belleville Transit [4] to have buses to the college more often. Currently they run every half hour.
QNet News reached out to Patel for an interview but did not receive a response.
The new vice-president is Jeet Patel.
The other newly elected leaders are
- Board of governors student representative: Nimrat Singh
- Applied Sciences, Skills and Technology leader: Sohan Singh Panwar
- Business Studies leader: Harjot Singh Sidhu
- Health Sciences leader: Vidhi Patel
- Human Studies leader: Amanpreet Singh
- Media Studies leader: Janessa Langlois
- International leader: Dushyant Dave
According to an email from student government’s officer manager, Nancy Simpson, there was a 30 per cent voter turnout rate.