The Horizon slate swept the ASUNM elections in a landslide Wednesday, according to the unofficial results.
Current Associated Students of UNM President Jennifer Onuska was re-elected with 827 votes, while Vision slate presidential candidate Tio Vega had 495. Mahad Ahmed, presidential candidate for the Cherries to Silver campaign, had 200 votes.
"I am absolutely overwhelmed right now," Onuska said. "I cannot be more proud of the Horizon slate."
If the unofficial results stand, Onuska will become the first ASUNM president to serve in successive years since Alberto Solis in 1994-96.
"I cannot wait for next year," she said. "We are going to do great things for the student body."
Vega said he definitely surprised by Horizon's domination of the voting.
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"It's unbelievable," he said. "Everything happens for a reason though. Everyone on the Vision slate is a quality person and we ran for the right reasons, not just for personal gain."
Ahmed was philosophical in defeat, although he was dismayed by voter turnout.
"It just shows the amount of apathy students have," he said. "But I'd sincerely like to congratulate Jenn Onuska and Horizon. I'm glad it was fruitful for them."
Vice President-elect Amanda Sims said she was also surprised by the margin of votes her slate gained. Sims had 941 votes to 498 for Vision candidate Kurt Nilson.
"There were a lot of quality candidates," Sims said. "I ran with them because I know they'll do a good job for the students. We worked so hard and everything just paid off."
Elected as senators were Craig Burgess, 641; Chris Ashcraft, 625; Josh Parsons, 579; Dustin Conrad, 575; Jenny French, 566; Natalie Montgomery, 563; Carlos Guillen, 554; Duff Lill, 532; Pedro Arturo Ramos, 520; and Michelle Heidbrink, 479.
Burgess said he was overwhelmed by the experience.
"Running as a freshman, I had doubts, but the slate was awesome" Burgess said. "They knew exactly what they had to do to win and they did it."
The Vision slate's Jared Thompson said he was not too distraught by not being elected to the Senate.
"The slate is a great group of people," Thompson said. "At least we all lost together. I made a lot of great friends through this campaign."
The opinion poll concerning a prep week in which no tests would be given or no new material introduced the week before final also passed overwhelmingly by 94.5 percent.
"I'm excited to take it to the next step," Onuska said.
She added that the prep week committee will be meeting Friday to decide how they will introduce it into the Faculty Senate. "Hopefully, we can make it a reality by next spring."
Thompson agreed, saying even though he was disappointed with the Senate results, he was happy with the prep week poll results.
"I'm totally stoked about the prep week," he said. "The less work I have to do, the better."
Elections Commissioner Carlos Romero said that there were a few minor violations but that the election ran smoothly.
"I don't believe we'll see any contestations," Romero said.
