With a 49% voting rate and a 5% underrepresentation rate, the Anthropology department only slightly wavers in presence within the College elections. However, graduate student remain distant and difficult to reach in the department, with the vast majority of votes made up of undergraduate students (over 74% of whom voted).
With the weighted minimum average lean per the last several years, Anthro remains a SALiGAN stronghold, with a -23% aversion to BUKLOD and a +16% rate in favor of SALiGAN, especially evident through its selection of all SALiGAN candidates.
In the Department, Matandac fails to beat Abstain, while the rest of BUKLOD is unable to breach 25% of votes in the department.
Overall, the trend in Anthropology hints at a trend of polarization towards SALiGAN (projected to increase to +35% compared to the rest of the College), but not necessarily an increased aversion towards BUKLOD (projected to dip slightly to -22%). It is possible that deeper divides continue and fractures the Department as a whole, but it remains to be seen how political leanings factor in, especially with a SALiGAN candidate winning the department representative post, along with the efforts of the respective political parties in consolidating their bases.