Ellie Mitchell has been announced as the new Community Officer for 2017-18.
The total number of people who voted for this position was 5563. Ellie won after 5 rounds of voting, beating by Moonisa Iqbal votes in the final round of voting.
Speaking to Impact, Ellie said that her first reaction was “what the hell?”, as she said that her alongside “[her] friends I didn’t initially think that I’d had won”.
With the main highlight of the campaign trail being meeting people and just gernerally talking to the voters on the campaign trail.
Upon being asked how Ellie was to celebrate, she said unfortunately that her and her friends has sold their Ocean tickets, but she said that they will be happily queueing tonight.
Round 1:
Ellie Mitchell = 2468
Moonisah Iqbal = 1359
Sami Hawari = 892
Priyanka Vij = 693
RON = 151
Round 2:
Ellie Mitchell = 2473
Moonisah Iqbal = 1362
Sami Hawari = 896
Priyanka Vij = 698
Round 3:
Ellie Mitchell = 2532
Moonisah Iqbal = 1408
Sami Hawari = 915
Round 4:
Ellie Mitchell = 2618
Moonisah Iqbal = 1500
Round 5:
Ellie Mitchell = 3129
Steven Green and Paras Sehmar
Interview by Emily Harbottle
Image: Impact Images
