HUS MCR Elections Easter 2024
We will be electing the current positions on the MCR Executive Committee during this round, which currently includes:
Co-President (Up to 2)
Vice President (Up to 2)
Treasurer (1)
Entertainments Officer(s) (Up to 2)
Secretary (1)
Please see the timetable below and further details on the application procedure.
Click here to go to a role description for each position, so you can see exactly what is expected of the role.
Timetable
Dates and Events in Italics are for candidates only.
6pm Tuesday 4th June - Notification of Election and Publication of Election Timetable.
12pm Monday 10th June - Nominations Open
12pm Monday 17th June - Candidate Manifestos and Posters MUST have been submitted to the Deputy Returning Officer (Kogulan Vipulan at MCR-President@homerton.cam.ac.uk)
12pm Monday 17th June - Nominations Close, Candidates are announced AND campaigning begins. See campaign rules below.
6:00pm Friday 21st June - Hustings for candidates. This will be hosted in a hybrid format for those requiring to attend remotely.
7:30pm Friday 21st June - Voting Opens.
8pm Monday 24th June - Voting Closes and winners provisionally announced.
Nominations
In order to get on the ballot, you need a proposer and a seconder, who should email the deputy returning officer to indicate that they are supporting your candidacy. If we do not receive verification from your proposer and seconder by 12pm Monday 17th June, we will be forced to discard your nomination.
Please note you must hand in your manifesto and poster by the nominations close deadline (12pm Monday 17th June).
Manifestos
Manifestos must be black and white, A4 documents outlining why you are running for the role and what you would like to do. Make sure you don’t start trying to promise things you can’t do, and to break up your manifesto into sections.
Remember: it is not a poster, so don’t try and be too fancy with it! You will get the chance to distribute a more graphic poster with your key ideas on as well!
They will be displayed both on the MCR website and in the MCR so that people who can’t make it to hustings can make an informed decision.
See examples of previous manifestos here! (Please note these are from JCR elections and are only to give you an idea of the look and feel of a manifesto, the content is not necessarily relevant. Lots of examples have been included, some might be better or worse than others, don’t feel you are constrained to make it look like any of these as long as it’s within the rules!)
Posters
Click here to see some example posters for previous JCR elections.
Campaigning
You must not campaign at all until you are explicitly told to by the Deputy Returning Officer (Kogulan Vipulan) – this will be shortly after nominations have closed.
Social Media campaigning is banned except for changing your cover photo on Facebook once. This cover photo must be checked by the Deputy Returning Officer before being uploaded to Facebook.
You must not include any political allegiance on any of your campaign materials.
You must not include images of you or any supports on your campaign materials.
You must not name any supports on your campaign materials.
We will be posting a set of posters on the Facebook groups (PGCE and MCR) and will be distributing them by email. Please note posters must be received by 12pm Monday 17th June to be emailed out, without exception.
Campaign materials (e.g. Flyers or Posters) may be posted around the College (within reason), but must first be approved by the Deputy Returning Officer.
You must not spend more than £5 on campaigning material.
Please submit everything to MCR-President@homerton.cam.ac.uk for approval.
Hustings
Information to follow soon …
Voting
Voting will take place using the CamSU online voting system (link will be provided at the time), this will begin at 7:30pm on Friday 21st June and end at 8pm on Monday 24th June.
Voting will be by the single transferrable vote system, meaning you will rank the candidates in your order of preference. There will also automatically be a RON candidate. If RON (re-open nominations) wins the election, the election for that role will start again and nominations will be re-opened.