Ilana Cohen has been elected as the full time Education Officer position for Swansea University’s Students’ Union for the next academic year.

She has won with 918 votes, beating runner up Oliver Bell who had 518 votes.

Ilana had led in exit polls earlier in the week with 27% of the vote.

In her manifesto, Ilana has promised to introduce more practice interviews for students, longer college office hours and more module selection advice.

She has already had success as a Postgraduate Officer within the union, and had previously been a student rep.

After hearing that she has secured the position Ilana said: “I feel exhausted now, I can’t wait to go to bed! But I can’t wait to celebrate with my team later.”

“The priority of my manifesto is the standardisation of university because a lot of people have identified problems within their colleges.”

“I wouldn’t be anywhere without my team. I can’t thank them enough. I’m so happy.”

After the results were announced, Oliver Bell said: “This result was what I was expecting. I had to do most of the campaign myself.”

Dylan Hopkins said: “I feel good, it was an amazing experience. I will probably run in further elections.”