Netting more than twice as many votes as any other candidate, Fentrice D. Driskell '01 won the Undergraduate Council's top spot early this morning.

Driskell's running mate John A. Burton '01 won the vice presidential position by nearly 400 votes.

Despite Driskell's landslide victory, the election help a mixed bag for the council as a whole. The two winners will preside over a council slashed to nearly half its current size and still largely underfunded.

But last night Driskell was too overwhelmed by her victory for such thoughts. When the election commission called her Mather House suite with the news, Driskell threw the phone into the air and started screaming.

"It's an amazing mixture of excitement and humility," she said. "There's never a way to gauge these things. There were these moments of extreme confidence as well as moments of uncertainty."

Results from a referendum on the council's size, which appeared on the election ballots, showed overwhelming student support for reducing council membership to about 50 representatives from its current 90.

In the first round of voting, 1,259 undergraduates chose 50 as the council's optimal size. In comparison, 60 council members, the next most popular option, drew only 499 votes.

Outgoing council president Noah Z. Seton '00 had endorsed reducing the council's size to 60 members.