UNSA Elections Portal

Please go through the guidelines for your information:

1 Students can only contest in teams. Interested students align themselves into teams of 7 students which include:

• • • Chairperson,
    • Vice Chairperson,
    • Secretary General,
    • Treasurer,
    • Sports and social welfare representative
    • International students representative
    • Special needs students representative.

2 Aspiring teams shall be required to come up with team name and symbol/logo at least 5 days before collection of nomination forms.

3 Interested students pick nomination forms from the electoral commission 14 days prior to the date of the Electoral College election.

4 A non-refundable amount of Ksh 3000 (Students Council) and Ksh 2000 (Electoral College) shall be paid as nomination fee. The fees shall be collected by the University Finance officer on behalf of the electoral commission.

5 Teams who shall have picked nomination forms are required to collect signatures from students in support of their candidature.

• • • Has the team’s list of at least three (300) hundred met the academic diversity/faculty/campus proportional diversity of seconders form the registered students voters in the University from at least seven electoral colleges
    • Has the team met a list of at least 2% of the registered   students’ seconders in the Faculty /Campus?

Candidates for the International Students’ representative shall be required to collect 50 signatures from International students and the Special needs representatives shall be required to collect 30 signatures from special needs students

6 Interested candidates will then be required to get academic clearance from respective deans and directors of faculties and schools that they come from.

7 Interested candidates are required to acquire Good Conduct certificates/ police clearance from the National Police Service.

8 Aspiring teams shall submit/return duly signed nomination papers to the electoral commission 9 days prior to the election date between 8am and 5pm

9 The electoral commission meets all aspiring teams upon return of nomination forms for clearance and shall announce and publish, within 2 days, successfully nominated aspiring teams.

10 Official campaigns shall begin immediately after the publication of the list of nominees by the Electoral commission and shall last for 7 days ending 24 hours before the elections date.

11 Aspiring teams appoint a maximum of 2 agents per polling station in the students’ electoral process who shall have the right to witness the voting and counting process.

12 Voting. This shall be done only by students whose names appear in the voter registrar and should provide a school/national ID for identification.

13 The commission shall determine, declare and publish the results of an election immediately after close of polling.

14 The commission shall:

• • • Verify, announce and declare, in the prescribed form, the final results from each polling station in the Electoral College
    • Publish the polling result forms on an online public portal on the University website, in liaison with the Director of ICTC
    • Provide each aspiring team or their agents with a copy of the declaration of the final results

15 The aspiring team that obtains highest number of votes shall be declared the winner.

16 Whenever there is a tie, such teams shall participate in a fresh election until one team wins.

17 If only one aspiring team is nominated, that aspiring team shall be declared elected unopposed.

18 The winning team shall be sworn in on the following morning after their election

19 The winning teams then select amongst themselves 3 representatives who will form the Electoral College that will vote in the Students Council.

20 Election of the student’s council is then conducted within 30 days after the election of the Electoral College representatives.

21 The winning team in the Students council is then sworn immediately after their announcement by the electoral commission.