STUDENT ELECTION – FALL 2025

Summary of Nominations, Candidate Statements and Voting Information

One student is required to be elected to Senate by and from the student body. The successful candidate will sit as a member of the School of Medicine for term of office to May 31, 2026.

  •  20 nominations received

One student is required to be elected to SFU Community Trust by and from the student body for term of office to March 31, 2027.

  • 6 nominations received  

Online voting will be held from October 22 to 24, 2025.

Senate Candidate Statements:

  • Yoel Asghedom
  • Malik Awada
  • Nushawn Birdi
  • Tiffany Deng
  • Deion Fairfax
  • Ajaypal Grewal
  • Tina Hashemi
  • Samuel Jeong
  • Nandini Joshi
  • Paul Kwon
  • Nishant Patel
  • Sanjit Singh Rana
  • Prince Adrielle Sarili
  • Lukas Steele
  • Eloise Stockton-Thomas
  • Sunny Tan
  • Mary Toma
  • Ahmed Vajahath
  • Andrew Vining
  • Vinisha

*Not all candidates submitted statements.

SFU Community Trust Candidate Statements:

  • Sikandra Ali
  • Nushawn Birdi
  • Tina Hashemi
  • Artin Safaei
  • Karanveer Singh
  • Rahul Sonewane

 

How to Vote:

Online voting: TBD

Eligible students will receive an email from Simply Voting with an individual link to access the voting system. 

Please read the Candidate Statements posted above.

 

Voting Results

The results will be posted on this website on: TBD.

If you have any problems accessing the system, please send an email to senate@sfu.ca with VOTING PROBLEM in the subject line.

Information Links

Questions

Questions about this election may be directed to the Electoral Officer at senate@sfu.ca.