JNUSU Election 2025: After the first round of vote counting at JNU’s 2025 Students’ Union elections, the Left alliance leads all four key posts amid a 67 % turnout, with the last election in 2024 also favouring the Left. (Image Credit: JNU)
JNUSU Election 2025: After the first round of vote counting for the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union elections, 2025, the Left alliance candidate is leading for the post of president with 135 votes, way ahead of key rivals who include candidates from ABVP and independent contenders.
The candidate of the Left-alliance has taken a clear lead in the vice-president race, leading with 192 votes, against his closest rivals from ABVP and NSUI.
While for the general secretary, the Left candidate sits at 118 votes, for the post of joint secretary, a Left candidate is leading with 170 votes. Going by early numbers, it looks like the Left bloc may sweep the key central panel posts.
Of the 9,043 students eligible to vote, around 67 % of them did. This compares with 70 % and 73 % in previous years and represents the lowest level of participation since the pandemic-era.
Voting was held in two phases-from 9 am to 1 pm and from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm-and campuses brimmed with fervor: drum beats, slogans, and snaking queues spoke to the charged atmosphere.
In the 2024 JNUSU elections, too, the Left alliance fared very well, sweeping most of the central panel posts, including that of president and vice-president.
Voter turnout had been marginally higher at close to 70 %, with the ABVP and NSUI succeeding in securing some key positions in school councils and smaller roles.
Analysts observed that the 2024 results reflected a campus trend of growing student support for left-leaning policies and set up a potentially competitive contest in 2025.
With the first-round leads in favour of the Left alliance, students and campus watchers now await the final official results, expected on November 6. Counting goes on overnight. The outcome will shape the student leadership and agenda at JNU for the year ahead.
Disclaimer: The results mentioned are based on the first round of counting and are not final. The official outcomes will be declared by the JNUSU Election Committee.
