As members of a Club or Society you may be asked to give your backing to a particular candidate or group of candidates. This is absolutely fine. We encourage you to get actively involved in the elections and promote voting to members of your Club or Society. After all, the people who are elected in will be the key decision makers on issues that may directly affect you as a member of activities! However, you must follow a simple process if you choose to give and promote the backing of your entire Club, Society or Student group. 

Please be aware that you do not need to endorse a candidate – you may decide to adopt the approach that you will support the elections by sharing all candidate information and re-sharing JMSU messaging to encourage all students to participate in the elections! Please inform us if the committee has been asked to endorse a candidate and you have decided not to.

If any JMSU Club or Society wishes to endorse a candidate or a group of candidates then they must ensure that this is done via a democratic discussion of the committee, and there should be evidenced proof that this has happened.

If a member of your committee has a conflict of interest, (i.e. they are running in the election or are part of a candidates support team) they should declare this at the start of the meeting/discussion and cannot chair nor lead this discussion.  If you need any guidance on this, please contact elections@ljmu.ac.uk   

If, as part of your backing, you decide to send out a message via email or social media on behalf of the candidate then you must include a link to the website (https://www.jmsu.co.uk/elections/candidates-revealed ) where all other candidates’ manifestos can be read.

We advise looking into all candidates and reading their manifestos before choosing who you would like to endorse. This will ensure that you back the candidate, and/or group of candidates, whose promises best reflect the needs and wants of your Club and/or Society and/or Student group.  You may choose to invite candidates to speak with your Club/Society/Committee prior to making a decision.

All complaints about this process not being adhered to will be taken very seriously and investigated. This could affect the candidate(s) position in the election.  If you have any questions about the process, or elections in general, please contact elections@ljmu.ac.uk

Once the committee have decided on endorsing a candidate they need to fill out this form: https://forms.office.com/e/zted8WrXz4 

This form cannot be submitted by anyone who is running or part of a campaign team in the JMSU Studet Officer Elections, another member of the committee needs to complete the form. If you have any questions, please contact elections@ljmu.ac.uk