About the Voting Process 

"The Alternative Vote (AV) is a preferential system where the voter has the chance to rank the candidates in order of preference.

The voter puts a '1' by their first choice a '2' by their second choice, and so on, until they no longer wish to express any further preferences or run out of candidates. 

Candidates are elected outright if they gain more than half of the first preference votes. If not, the candidate who lost (the one with least first preferences) is eliminated and their votes are redistributed according to the second (or next available) preference marked on the ballot paper. This process continues until one candidate has half of the votes and is elected. " Source: Electoral Reform Society

Problems Voting?

• To vote you must have a current UWE student login
• If you are having problems with you login please visit this page: Further info about UWE logins and passwords
• Research Students: If you are a research student but have a staff login please contact Nerys.Neath@uwe.ac.uk with details of your student status & course, once verifed we can arrange access for you to vote.
• If you have opted out of the Students' Union then you can not take part in UWESU elections.