The University of Connecticut’s Undergraduate Student Government Spring 2026 election results are in, with Venice Montanaro and Keira Conrad winning the election for president and vice president with 63.8% of the votes.
“Keira and I are incredibly honored to have been elected to serve as your Undergraduate Student Government President and Vice President,” Montanaro wrote in an email. “Our campaign was built on the commitment of ‘Your Concerns. Our Actions’ and our presidency will reflect our promise to use student voices to create impact. Our priorities of Accessibility, Affordability and a better Quality of Life will remain at the forefront of our initiatives. We are excited to get to work and represent the student body. Thank you.”
Montanaro and Conrad received 1,561 of 2,446 votes while president candidate Joel Harris and vice-president candidate Eliyahu Cohen received 715 votes.
Syna Patel won the chief diversity officer race with 1,271 votes, 52% of the total votes.
Patel campaigned on prioritizing “listening first and making sure students feel comfortable sharing their concerns and confident that their voices matter,” according to USG’s executive candidates webpage.
William “Billy” Lipinski was re-elected as comptroller with 1,372 votes, 56.1% of the total votes. Lipinski served as comptroller for the 2025-2026 academic year.
Lipinski campaigned on his accomplishments in his first year as comptroller, including 100% of all internal USG purchases being on time and policy compliant and 80% of USG funding being spent in programming and student advocacy, according to an Instagram post.
“Huge thank you to all the people that supported me throughout this campaign,” Lipinski wrote in an Instagram post. “I’m so excited to hit the ground running again this year with such an amazing group. You all made this happen, and I’m forever grateful.”
In the senate race, 29 out of 45 seats were filled. The remaining 16 seats are vacant.
Of the 10 constituencies, only three were able to fill all their seats: the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering and the Multicultural and Diversity constituency.
The College of Liberal Arts and Science had the only competitive race, with 13 candidates running for 10 seats. Kayla Deluca, Julia Petro, Aditi Hemant Thaker, Debora St. Surin, Layla Garner, Daphne Kam, Quinn Geier, Auveen Beheshti, Vishal Rampur and Zohaib Saleem were elected as the 10 CLAS senators.
The Multicultural and Diversity constituency elected 10 senators to fill its seats: Patel, Katherine Gutierrez, Sadaf Zarei, Kiara Kelly, Andrea Perez-Meneses, Vedika Patel, Damian Howson, Ana Clara Apolinario, Mirolla Boules and write-in candidate Amr Othman.
The College of Engineering elected 6 senators to fill its seats: Harris, Larrisa Chiarito, Dave Silvestri, Raby Meelar and write-in candidates Euan Hall and Brandon Zhang.
Only three other constituencies were able to fill any seats, each with only one senator.
The School of Business filled one of its five senate seats with write-in candidate Rinor Limani.
The College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources filled one of its four senate seats with Laura Wagner.
The School of Fine Arts filled one of its two senate seats with Gwenyth “Winnie” Dubail.
All senate seats remain vacant for the Academic Center for Exploratory Students, the Neag School of Education, the School of Nursing and the School of Pharmacy.