The self-choosen successor of current Undergraduate Council President Beth A. Stewart '00 was elected to the top two council spots on Friday.

According to currently available results, Noah Z. Seton '00 won the presidency with 1,179 final-round votes over T. Christopher King '01, who finished second with 943 final-round votes. Seton's running mate Kamil E. Redmond '00 won the vice presidency over King's running mate, Fentrice D. Driskell '01, by a 1,140 to 888 final-round tally. Fourteen votes have not yet been counted due to a glitch in the council's "unvote" program.

The council uses a cumulative voting system, where in each round the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated and his or her votes are transferred to each voter's next-choice candidate.

In this year's final round, the margins of victory were much more decisive than in last year's, when Stewart defeated her closest opponent by only 54 votes.

Reached at a party for their supporters at the Winthrop House Grill Friday night, Seton and Redmond attributed the victory to their platform, which reaffirmed Stewart's focus on student services but also said the council would take on controversial issues.

"Our victory shows that you can provide both student services and activism," Redmond said. "This campus is ready for a council that can bring you both fro-yo and Faculty diversity."

King and Driskell finished far ahead of the next-closest contenders, each of whom had fewer than 400 first place votes, compared to 713 for King and 678 for Driskell. (Seton received 829 first place votes and Redmond captured 827.)

King and Driskell ran on a platform of creating a "healthier Harvard" through community building initiatives.

And while King said he "hasn't even entertained the thought" of a repeat presidential bid next year, he said his agenda has iniated a dialogue that will live on.

"We believed that our job as can- didates was to spark a new dialogue aboutcommunity [and] introduce a new language centeredaround collaboration and compassion, and in so faras that was our mission, we have succeeded," Kingsaid.

He hopes to start a non-profit organization toimplement his community building plans fromoutside the council.

Council Continuity?

Seton and Stewart said the Seton-Redmondvictory reaffirms Stewart's vision of the council.Until Seton's election, Stewart was the onlypopularly elected president in council history toendorse prioritizing student services overpolitical issues.

"I think this says my administration waswithout question on the right track," Stewartsaid. She said it would have been "unthinkable"for Seton and Redmond to run on the same ticket ayear ago.

In last year's election, Redmond finishedsecond in the race for vice president, running ona progressive platform. She was defeated byStewart's running mate Samuel C. Cohen '00, whoemphasized student services in his campaign.

Stewart attributed the small decline in thenumber of voters--from 3,084 last election to2,706 in this one--to the similarity ofcandidates' platforms.