Erika L. Guckenberger '00, who ran successfully for a council seat in the Southeast Yard district, said the low turnout is not just the council's fault.
"The council can only represent the students to the extent that they're willing to participate," she said.
"If people are not willing to participate, I guess that means they're indifferent as to which candidates will represent them the best," Guckenberger said.
Only 19 out of the 88 council members are returning from last year. In fact, only 20 of last year's council members ran this fall, with Brian J. Chan '99, a Crimson editor, the sole loser.
The list of candidates are as follows, ranked by the number of votes received in each of the districts:
Adams: David S. Abrams '98, Eric M. Nelson '99, Andrew J. Green '99, Daniel V. Alexandre '97, Taj J. Clayton '99; Cabot: Wolinsky, Enmi Sung '98, Carolyne L. Guss '99, Joshua Powe '98; Currier: Andrew Reuben Ropel '98, Sarah K. Hurwitz '99, Andrew J. Owen '99 (tied with Hurwitz), Jeffrey M. Goldfarb '97, Adam S. Vaina '97; Dudley: Christine Bohrer, Nora Puffett, Diana Adair; Dunster: Marco B. Simons '97, Louis D. Monoyudis '98, Philip R. Kaufman '98, Kaplan, Laura B. Pincus '98; Eliot: Pia A. Menezes '98, Catherine D. Rucker '99, Michele A. Manahan '98, Khrista McCarden '98, Benjamin W. Hulse '99; Kirkland: Crimson editor Justin D. Lerer '99, Nicola McKinney '99, William M. Jay '98, Ron J. Avni '98-'97, John J. Appelbaum '97, Leverett: Justin Jones '97-'98, Eli M. Ce yak '99 Carston M. Reichel '98, William F. Abely '99, Tally Zingher '99, Gregory Kranias '98; Lowell: Michael J. Passante '99, Rudd W. Coffey '97, Katherine F. Mossman '97; Mather: Stephen E. Weinberg '99, Joseph P. Sena '99, Brandon Bethea '98, P. Reed Anderson '99; Pforzheimer: Joseph G. Cleeman '98, Selamawi H. Asgedom '99, Justin E. Porter '99, Aaron P. Easterly '99, Heather Chang '97; Quincy: Grimmelmann, Daniel S. Quint '97, Ali Ahsan '98, Christopher Minchberg '99, Josh Derman '99, Michael A. O'Mary '99; Winthrop: Hollis C. Waite '98, Jonathan J. Finer '98, Terry-Ann M. Burrell '99, Jason L. Perri '98, Jaime K. Chambron '99; Canaday-Union: Thomas P. Windom '00, Lillian J. Epstein '00, Noah Z. Seton '00, Maneesh R. Amancharla '00, Raqeeb M. Haque '00, Kathryn M. Hayes '00; North Yard: Brian J. Rosenthal '00, Beth A. Stewart '00, Samuel C. Cohen '00, Justin M. Krebs '00, John Paul Rollert '00, C.J. Mahoney '00; Southeast Yard: Kathleen E. Campbell '00, Chris-Tia E. Donaldson '00, E. Sonny Elizondo '00, Guckenberger, Olivia Verma '00, Robert S. Schwartz '00; Southwest Yard: Trevor S. Blake '00, Mark D. Palmenter '00, Sam Spital '00, Megan V.R. Strackbein '00