Run student government elections, faculty senate votes, and campus referendums online. Mobile-first, secure, and built for the way students and faculty actually engage.
Your students live on their phones. Your faculty are spread across departments. A paper ballot or single-day polling station doesn't match how your campus actually works.
Single-digit participation rates undermine the legitimacy of student government and governance bodies. If voting requires standing in line between classes, most students simply won't do it.
Not every student lives on campus. Commuters, online students, and satellite campus populations are effectively excluded from physical polling stations.
Student government election commissions run on volunteer labor. Printing ballots, staffing polling stations, and counting votes manually is a drain on time that could go toward programming and advocacy.
ElectionChamp handles the entire election — setup, voting, reminders, counting, and documentation — so your election commission can focus on fair, transparent governance.
Start Your Free ElectionElectionChamp handles all types of campus elections — from student body president to faculty tenure committee and campus-wide referendums.
Elect your student body president, vice president, senators, and class representatives. Support for multiple races, candidate statements, and automatic runoff calculation.
Elect faculty senate members, department chairs, and committee representatives. Run governance votes that meet the formality your institution requires.
Put campus-wide questions to a vote — fee increases, constitutional amendments, sustainability initiatives, or any issue that requires formal student or faculty input.
Greek life chapters, honor societies, club sports, and student organizations can all run their own elections. Each group gets its own ballot and voter list.
Homecoming court, teaching excellence awards, outstanding student awards — run any campus-wide vote with the same security and professionalism as a governance election.
Gauge student or faculty opinion on campus issues. Non-binding polls give governance bodies data-backed justification for decisions and budget requests.
No software to install. No account required for voters. Your election commission can have the entire thing set up in under 10 minutes.
Name your election (e.g., "Spring 2025 SGA Elections"), add a description, and set your voting window — give students 2–5 days to vote.
⏱ 2 minutesChoose your voting method — plurality for officer races, ranked choice for contested seats, yes/no for referendums, approval voting for multi-issue ballots.
⏱ 1 minuteAdd candidates with bios and platform statements, referendum language, or survey questions. Preview exactly what voters will see on their phone.
⏱ 3 minutesImport your student or faculty directory via spreadsheet — names and email addresses. Each voter gets a unique, secure 16-digit voting key.
⏱ 2 minutesSet up email and SMS notifications. Schedule automatic reminders to students who haven't voted — the biggest turnout booster there is.
⏱ 2 minutesHit start. Students vote from their phone in under 60 seconds. Results are calculated automatically the moment voting closes — ready to announce.
✅ Done!Everything you need to run a secure, high-turnout campus election — built for how students and faculty actually vote.
Students live on their phones. They'll vote from their dorm, the library, or between classes — no app download, no account creation. Tap the link, vote, done.
Learn moreAES-256 encryption and anonymous ballots. No one — not the election commission, not student affairs, not IT — can see how any individual voted.
Learn moreEmail and SMS reminders go out automatically to students who haven't voted yet. The single most effective way to boost campus election turnout.
Learn moreResults calculated automatically when voting closes. Announce your new student body president minutes after the polls close — no overnight counting required.
Learn morePlurality, ranked choice (STV), approval voting, yes/no — use the right voting method for each race. Different methods for different ballot items in the same election.
Learn moreEvery action timestamped and logged. If results are challenged, you have complete, defensible documentation — not a box of paper ballots.
Learn moreStudents expect to do everything from their phone. Faculty expect a secure, professional process. ElectionChamp delivers both — at a price that fits a student government budget.
No login. No app. No account. Students tap the link in their email or text, see a clean ballot with candidate names and statements, make their choices, and submit. Done before their next class starts.
Works on every phone, tablet, and laptop — so commuter students, distance learners, and study-abroad participants vote just as easily as someone in the student union.
See the Full Voter ExperienceMost SGA budgets are tight. ElectionChamp's pay-per-election pricing means you only pay when you vote — no annual contracts, no monthly fees, and every feature included. A 5,000-student election costs about $250 total.
Join colleges and universities that have moved from paper ballots and polling stations to secure online voting.
Yes, and this is the most common approach. Upload your student directory with .edu email addresses, and ElectionChamp generates a unique 16-digit voter key for each student. Only students on your approved voter list receive a voting link — ensuring only eligible, enrolled students can participate.
Yes. Ranked choice voting (also known as single transferable vote or instant runoff) is fully supported. Students rank candidates in order of preference, and results are calculated automatically using proper STV methodology — no spreadsheets or manual tabulation required. Many student governments prefer this method for contested presidential races.
Absolutely. Your account can manage unlimited elections with different voter lists. Run SGA elections for the full student body, fraternity/sorority elections for chapter members, club elections for each organization, and faculty senate elections for faculty — all from the same account, each with its own ballot and results.
Each student receives a unique 16-digit voter key that can only be used once. Once a ballot is submitted, that key is permanently marked as used. There is no way to vote twice — even if a student clicks their voting link again, they'll see a confirmation that their vote has already been recorded.
The election administrator can see real-time participation data (how many students have voted), but actual vote tallies are sealed until the voting window closes. This prevents any possibility of early results influencing remaining voters or campaign strategy. Results are revealed simultaneously to everyone the moment voting ends.
Every action in an ElectionChamp election is timestamped and logged — when notifications were sent, when each ballot was cast, how results were calculated. This complete audit trail provides defensible documentation that holds up to challenges. It's significantly more robust than paper ballot documentation, where chain of custody is often questionable.
For a 15,000-student election, approximately $750 ($10 base + $0.05 × 14,800 students above 200). Compare that to the cost of printing ballots, staffing polling stations for multiple days, and the volunteer hours spent counting. Contact us for volume pricing if you run multiple elections per academic year.
No. Only the designated election administrator (typically the SGA election commission chair or student affairs advisor) has access to election results and participation data. Ballots are encrypted and anonymous — no one can see how any individual student voted. Your election data belongs to the organization running the election, not the institution.
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