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Your new Student Executive team for 2025-2026

Your new Student Executive team for 2025-2026

The winners for LeadMCR 2025 have been announced

Interview with our departing Wellbeing & Liberation Officer: Aisha Akram

The Mancunion sat down with the departing Wellbeing & Liberation Officer Aisha Akram to discuss her two-year stint in the role
LeadMCR 2025: Students’ Union holds candidate breakfast for society presidents

LeadMCR 2025: Students’ Union holds candidate breakfast for society presidents

The Mancunion spoke to society presidents and LeadMCR candidates about the significance of society endorsements in the election
LeadMCR 2025: Society Endorsement Tracker

LeadMCR 2025: Society Endorsement Tracker

Want to know who your favourite society endorsed? Just take a look at our helpful society endorsement tracker!
LeadMCR 2025: Breaking down candidate ‘ideas statements’

LeadMCR 2025: Breaking down candidate ‘ideas statements’

Not sure who to vote for in LeadMCR 2025? Here is a breakdown of the applicants proposed changes
The paradoxes of student democracy

The paradoxes of student democracy

Low engagement in student democracy leads to expectations that are both too high and both too low – why? They promise the impossible, and don’t deliver
Legacies of LeadMCR throughout the years

Legacies of LeadMCR throughout the years

Your guide to the recent history of UoM’s student elections, from voting turnouts and when to vote to controversies and changes
84 students apply to become SU executives

84 students apply to become SU executives

24 candidates are running for Activities and Culture Officer, with campaigning set to begin on February 27

A defence of irony

Elliott Mills witters on for far too long; omnipresent voice Elliot Mills brings us back to a straightened-out meaning of meaning

Student elections and ongoing contradictions

Elliott Mills illustrates how continued low voter turnout in Student Union elections is widening the gap between students and those representing them

A response to the ‘crisis of apathy’

General secretary Grace Skelton responds to last week’s elections criticism, reminding you why you should vote

UMSU elections are in a crisis of apathy

Alice Rigby argues that Manchester needs a re-invigoration of the student electoral system to make us believe in our executive and union representatives

Election scandal as five candidates disqualified

Activities, Community, Diversity, General Secretary and Wellbeing candidates kicked out of elections

Grace wins the race

– Skelton wins Gen Sec contest by landslide – 5 candidates disqualified

Absent Exec Officer drops out of Gen Sec race

Stuck in Pakistan, current Diversity Officer pulls out of running