On Friday, April 11, the Committee on Student Elections (CSE) released the results for the 2025–2026 Homewood Undergraduate Elections. These positions included the Executive Board, Senate and Class Programming Councils for the Student Government Association (SGA) and the president and vice president for the Hopkins Student Organization for Programming (the HOP). For this election cycle, CSE reported that the total number of voters came to 831, a significant decrease compared to the 1,032 voters from last year’s election.
For this year’s SGA elections, five candidates were on the ballot for a total of five executive positions (president, vice president, secretary, treasurer and chair of programming), with no official candidates running for treasurer and chair of programming. The elected individuals were Vishnu Dontu for president, Omotara Tiamiyu for vice president, Sumire Sumi for secretary and Imad Ahmed for treasurer, leaving the chair of programming position unfilled.
Dontu won the presidency with 470 votes (62.7%) over Tyler Turner, who received 280 votes (37.3%). For vice president, Tiamiyu was elected with a total of 530 votes (69.5%) over Daarian Rouhani with 233 votes (30.5%). Sumi ran unopposed for secretary, winning a total of 730 votes (100%). Ahmed was elected treasurer after receiving a total of 10 write-ins.
Dontu, Tiamiyu and Sumi ran on the IMPACT ticket together for the Executive Board. Their ticket campaigned for reforms to the new Second Commission on Undergraduate Education curriculum, expansions to existing academic resources, transparency regarding SGA initiatives, improvements to dining hall offerings and professor accountability for student mental health policies.
In an email to The News-Letter, Dontu outlined the group’s goals for major initiatives and described the changes that they aimed to make as falling into four categories: Dining, Student Safety, Recreation and Academic.
“We will post information about knowing your rights when it comes to ICE detainments and Visa relocations so students are aware. Beyond that, we hope to speak to admin about the situation and get a better understanding of it as well as what they can do for students,” Dontu wrote.
He continued by highlighting the importance of student engagement and the prioritization of student voices.
“The biggest shortcoming of SGA is its lack of transparency with the student body. [...]“ he wrote. “We plan to improve this by regularly advertising and emailing the student body about SGA initiatives and updates along with more engaging tablings.”
For Class Councils, Srigouri Origanty was elected by 154 votes as the senior class president. Tarini Basireddy was elected as junior class president with 196 votes , and Jason Yu was elected as sophmore class president with 222 votes. All candidates ran unopposed.
In addition to SGA positions, the HOP president and vice president were also elected. Andrea Wat won the presidency with 637 votes, while Taliyah Huang won vice president with 627 votes; both students ran uncontested.
This year, elections were completely virtual. Despite elections being held in person in the past, ballots this year were cast through CampusGroups, with CSE incentivizing voting with an event in front of Brody giving doughnuts to the first 200 people who showed proof of voting.
