Results for the 2025-26 University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) annual general election have been certified and posted to UMSU Simply Voting — the union’s web-based voting platform.
Voting occurred from March 6 to 7 with 33 names on the ballot, described as an “unprecedented number of candidates” by the chief returning officer Jodie Smith.
Turnout was marked at 20.4 per cent, an increase from 16.8 per cent last year, with 4,939 students voting out of 24,248 electors.
Elected executive candidates. Left to right: Prabhnoor Singh (president), Heaven Kaur (vice-president university affairs), Jared Ramos Murphy (vice-president external affairs), Hannah Le (vice-president student life) and Carolyn Wang (vice-president finance and operations).
Executive candidate results
Prabhnoor Singh was elected as president with 38.1 per cent of the vote, 17.6 percentage points lower than Divya Sharma’s presidential victory last year. Singh won with 1,373 votes against Fatima Shabir with 1,116 votes and Robert Johannson with 1,115 votes.
Heaven Kaur was elected as vice-president university affairs in a two-way race, following the disqualification of Ishraqul Alam. Kaur won with 1,909 votes, defeating incumbent Rachhvir Dhaliwal who received 1,092 votes.
In the race for vice-president external affairs, Jared Ramos Murphy won with 1,558 votes, followed by Manvir Kaur with 843 votes and Sahir Harike with 548 votes.
For vice-president student life, which was the most contested race of all positions, Hannah Le was elected with 1,316 votes. Le was followed by Rachael Ajibike with 792 votes, Mayah Duque with 684 votes, Abhishek Kumar with 333 votes, Mudra Prajapati with 197 votes and Manroopjit Kaur with 189 votes.
Carolyn Wang was the only incumbent re-elected, receiving 1,338 votes over Cameron Provost and Kai Jassal to serve as vice-president finance and operations. Provost secured 1,045 votes followed by Jassal with 979 votes.
Abstain votes amounted to 1,335 for president, 1,938 for vice-president university affairs, 1,428 for vice-president student life and 1,577 for vice-president finance and operations. Vice-president external affairs received the most abstain votes of the executive positions, with 1,990 abstentions.
Elected community representative candidates. Top left to right: Arianna Gamblin (Indigenous students’ rep.), Mahfuz Haque (international students’ rep.), Ayush Singh (2SLGBTQIA+ students’ rep.) and Gurminder Singh (accessibility students’ rep.). Bottom left to right: Gurnoor Singh (mature and part-time students’ rep.), Temiloluwa Oyewole (Black students’ rep.), Patricia Martinez (racialized students’ rep.) and Leata Goulet (women-identified students’ rep.).
Community representative candidate results
Arianna Gamblin was elected as Indigenous students’ representative with 746 votes, ahead of Jonah Harper with 552 votes.
Mahfuz Haque will be serving as the next international students’ representative, earning 485 votes. Haque was trailed by Saumitra Saran with 388 votes, Andrii Kotochihov with 384 votes and Fiih Patel with 277 votes.
Three candidates ran uncontested — each being elected following a “yes” or “no” ballot vote.
Ayush Singh was elected as 2SLGBTQIA+ students’ representative with 809 votes in favour and 364 against. Gurminder Singh will serve as the next accessibility community representative, obtaining 657 votes in favour and 281 votes against, while Gurnoor Singh Arora garnered 628 vote favour and 280 in opposition for mature and part-time students’ representative.
Students elected Temiloluwa Oyewole to serve as the next Black students’ representative, defeating incumbent Damilola Ojo with 777 votes relative to Ojo’s 475 votes.
Patricia Martinez will serve as the next racialized students’ representative with 1,050 votes, followed by Simreen Shahi with 501 votes and Devkarn Singh Gehlot with 215 votes.
Leata Goulet was elected as women-identified students’ representative with 1,494 votes, receiving 75.9 per cent of the vote — the largest percentage of the vote of any candidate. Shutkrati Tyagi finished second with 474 votes.
