Voting for the 2025-26 University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) annual general election will occur from Thursday, March 6 at 8 a.m. until Friday, March 7 at 5 p.m. The final timeline of the upcoming election was presented during the Jan. 16 UMSU board of directors meeting.
The timeline presentation was prepared by chief electoral officer Jodie Smith and was presented by Christopher Yendt, interim chairperson of the board, as Smith was unable to attend the meeting.
The nomination period for students wishing to run in the election starts on Monday, Feb. 3 at 9 a.m. with the deadline to submit the nomination package being Thursday, Feb. 13 at 5 p.m.
Thirteen positions are available to be filled in the upcoming election, consisting of executive positions and community representatives. Executive positions include the president, vice-president university affairs, vice-president external affairs, vice-president student life and vice president finance and operations. The community representative positions consist of an Indigenous, international, 2SLGBTQIA+, women’s community, accessibility, mature and part-time, racialized and Black students’ representative.
The responsibilities and duties of each position can be found in UMSU’s governance and operations manual.
The UMSU election manual states that the nomination package will require the candidate’s name and contact information, a signed acknowledgement accepting the nomination, confirmation from the university that the nominee is an UMSU member, a $50 deposit and a signed document indicating the name that each candidate wishes to appear on the ballot.
Students wishing to run for an executive position will also require the first and last names, signatures, faculties, years and student ID numbers of a minimum of 100 students that are UMSU members. They will also need to provide the name and contact information of their campaign manager who must be a student and UMSU member.
Students looking to run as a community representative will need to submit contact and identifying information of at least 15 nominators who are UMSU members and members of the relevant community group.
The campaigning period will start after the winter term break on Monday, Feb. 24 at 9 a.m. and will last until Wednesday, March 5 at 5 p.m.
Voting will occur online using your UMNetID and UMNet password through Simply Voting — a web-based voting platform. In-person voting will take place on the first floor of UMSU University Centre from Thursday, March 6 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. to Friday, March 7 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The preliminary election results will be available online at umsu.ca/vote on the final day of voting.
For more information about UMSU’s general election, visit umsu.ca/elections.
