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The results of the university elections 2016

See the results of this year’s university elections in which all students could cast their votes for new student representatives on the AU Board, the academic councils and the boards of studies, while PhD students could elect new representatives for AU’s PhD committees.

The new student representatives on the AU Board are: Sune Koch Rønnow from the Student Council list and Line Dam Westengaard from the Arts Council list. They will start their work on the AU Board on 1 February 2017.


The overall turnout for this year’s election was 18.87 per cent. In total, there were seven contested elections – i.e. elections in which it was possible to vote for different candidates – 61 uncontested elections and 18 cancelled elections.

Additional information

Read more about the election at au.dk/valg or contact the Election Secretariat at valg@au.dk.