Despite having the highest graduate student voting rate of 26%, the Kas department only nets itself a 48% voting rate, landing near the lower end of department voting rates. It loses out on 0.57 percentage points or nearly 7% of representation. However, its impact on the election is not negligible.

With aversion to both SALiGAN (-12%) and BUKLOD (-4%) compared to the rest of the College, the Kas department lands its votes heavily on the side of Abstentions (+10%). This is a trend that continues from the previous years.

As a result, the Department lands nearly no candidates, only electing an independent CSSP Rep and BUKLOD’s Pascua for the Councilorship, leaving vacancies as far as the eye can see.

With Councilorships netting abstentions over 36% (+12% over the College average), the aversions in the Weighted Average Minimum Lean lends a noticeable dent in what used to be a BUKLOD stronghold, landing itself a nearly non-existent Council. A possible explanation is that the Department’s aversion to the running Dept. Rep Independent Silerio influenced the rest of the candidacies. However, the rising trends of abstentions do not end in Kas and, overall, the College’s rise in abstention rates are likely to become a worry, as early as the next election.