Meg Boles
Texas State psychology junior and presidential candidate Abby Myers speaks during the student government presidential debate, Monday, March 24, 2025 at the LBJ Teaching Theater. Myers won the elections for student body president.
Psychology junior Abby Myers won the student body president race by 0.44%, and geography and urban planning junior Emma Stampley won the vice president race by 0.42%.
The Texas State Student Government Supreme Court certified the election results at 5:30 p.m. on March 31, 2025.
Myers said one of her top priorities is to make student government accessible to students.
“[By the time my term is over] I hope to have made an impact in areas on campus that have felt untouched by student government and have established better rapport with other student organizations to integrate campus-wide cooperation into the Texas State University culture,” Myers said in a written interview with The Star.
Stampley beat her opponent Nikola Markovic, a computer science and mathematics junior and member of the “Bobcat First” alliance, by 17 votes for the vice presidential seat. Overall, Stampley received 1,020 votes.
A total of 2,023 votes were cast in the vice presidential election, a 747-vote increase from the last election cycle.
Voting for Student Government elections took place from March 27-28. According to the Student Government website, results were scheduled for announcement on Friday, March 28, but were delayed until Monday. The presidential and vice-presidential terms will begin on May 1 and last for a year.
“Every individual who cast their ballot is a person who believed in what I stood for, and I made a promise to not only them but to the entire student body that my role is to support, inspire, and uplift them in any way that I can,” Myers wrote.
For more information on Student Government, visit its website.