See campaign statements from the winning candidates here.
This election season, the Nominations and Elections Committee challenged students to "get out the vote." Almost half of the student population listened.
With an unprecedented 49.77-percent voter turn-out and no violations filed, the NEC announced the names of candidates elected to the Undergraduate Assembly and Class Boards on Friday night.
For the first election season since fall 2006, the NEC did not have to investigate accusations of campaign violations.
The number of students who voted on Penn InTouch broke last year's record of 44 percent and the 41 percent from 2007.
"While the NEC will always be working to continually increase turnout, this is truly a step in the right direction," College junior and Nominations and Elections vice chairwoman of elections Rachel Levick said.
She suggested that the number of competitive races and unique campaigning methods helped generate student interest.
Even though all three Class Board presidential races featured contenders trying to oust the incumbent, voters chose to stick to the status quo.
The juniors, sophomores and freshmen all re-elected Wharton junior Arthur Gardner Smith, College sophomore Adam Behrens and Wharton freshman Jibran Khan to represent their respective class.
College voters also opted to re-elect past candidates when selecting UA representatives. Of the 15 elected, 11 had served on the UA previously.
Among the UA's School of Arts and Sciences representatives, College sophomore Mark Pan, current UA Civic and Community Engagement Committee chairman, was also awarded the University Council seat.
Pan captured the spot by leading the UA's SAS representative results by almost 200 votes. Current UA members College sophomore Matt Amalfitano, College sophomore Alec Webley, College junior Zac Byer and College freshman Cornelius Range rounded out the rest of the top five selected to represent SAS on the UA.
The UA seats for the Wharton, School of Engineering and Applied Science and School of Nursing representatives, by contrast, saw more representative turn-over. Several members, however, do have past experience as volunteer members for the UA.
Wharton freshman Tyler Ernst, UA member and Engineering freshman Emily Shaeffer and UA volunteer member and Nursing and Wharton sophomore G.J. Melendez-Torres all captured the respective Wharton, SEAS and Nursing UA seats on the UC.
Some of the items on the agendas of the elected include dining developments, improving the housing move-out process and increasing the number of late-night studying and eating options.
