In the first round of Student Union elections on Thursday, 17 were elected to various positions on the Allocations Board and Senate. As in elections past, voter turnout was highest among the first-years and lowest among the senior class.

The Class of 2020 cast 397 votes in total. Massell Quad had the highest quad turnout, with 212 votes cast out of the 993 total votes from this election cycle.

There were two two-semester seats available on the A-Board in this round of elections. Returning A-Board member Alex Mitchell ’17 claimed one of the seats with 334 of the 736 votes cast, with Abigail Zeamer ’19 taking the other with 295 votes.

Andrews Figueroa ’19, who ran unopposed, won the three-semester A-Board seat with 543 of the 773 votes cast. Amy-Claire Dauphin ’19 cinched the racial minority A-Board seat with 156 of the 278 votes cast in her race.

In a hotly contested race for the two Class of 2020 Senate seats, Tal Richtman and Samantha Barrett won out over eight other candidates with 37.47 and 13.22 percent of the vote, respectively.

Geraldine Bogard ’20 garnered eight of the 11 votes cast in the race for the Myra Kraft Transitional Year Program Senate Seat. In the East Quad Senate seat race, Elijah Sinclair ’19 edged out opponent Geoffrey Kao ’19 by three votes, receiving 49 of the 122 votes cast in his race.

In the race for the Rosenthal Quad Senate seat, Julien Tremblay ’19 secured the position with 26 of the 58 votes cast, narrowly beating Vincent Lauffer ’19, who had received 24 votes. Running in an uncontested race, Saint Cyr Dimanche ’19 won the Castle Quad Senate seat with 19 of the 22 votes cast in his race.

Charlotte Lang ’19 cinched the Village Quad Senate seat with exactly half of the 46 votes cast in her race, knocking out contenders Morris Nadjar ’19 and Marko Stipanovic ’18. Meanwhile, José Castellanos ’18 claimed the Ridgewood Quad Senate seat with 28 of the 40 votes cast.

In an interesting turn of events, Ari Matz ’17 was elected Senator to the Foster Mods. Matz was written in five times, technically losing the race to the late Mod Cat — a pet cat that was the subject of an online petition for Student Union in 2015 — who received seven write-ins.

Jacob (Jack) Rubinstein ’20 secured the North Quad Senate seat with 69 of the 135 votes cast in his race, edging out opponent Maxwell Snider ’20, who received 45 votes. In the Massell Quad Senate race, Aaron Finkel ’20 won with 65 of the 198 votes cast, beating five other candidates.

Michelle Jimenez ’18 cinched the Ziv Quad Senate seat with 42 of the 80 votes cast. Though Jimenez ran unopposed, the “Abstain” option — which counts against candidates — received 12 votes, while the “Other” option received 26 write-ins.

Newly-elected Off-Campus Community Senator Nicholas Love ’17 received seven write-ins in his race, with “Abstain” taking 41.43 percent of the vote. In the race for Charles River/567 Senator, Gabrielle Schwartz received five write-ins, and Student Union Secretary Gaby Gonzalez Anavisca ’19 named her the winner in a Sept. 9 email announcing the election results. However, according to the Student Union constitution, any race in which “Abstain” wins the majority of the vote — “Abstain” received 51.11 percent of the vote in this race — will result in a runoff election.

The new senators were sworn in during the weekly Senate meeting on Sunday.