After a runoff between Kurt Sasser and Brad Cink, Sasser won the SGA presidential election with 57 percent of students votes.
Sasser's supporters chanted his name and fraternity cheer moments after his name was called from Cater's porch.
"I've never experienced anything like this in my life," Sasser said. "The face should describe it all; I'm in shock, I'm excited. You know when she said 57 percent, I got so nervous."
Cink and Sasser were suitemates their sophomore year at Auburn.
"I have every single respect for him," Sasser said. "He did such a great job. I owe him so much. I owe my parents so much for raising me the way they did. I cannot thank my friends enough. They've been here. It should not be a cliche thing to say, but, without my savior Jesus Christ, I'd be nowhere."
Liese Sasser, Kurt's mother, said she felt this was a solid campaign between the three candidates.
"I just felt like he worked really hard, but more than that, his campaign, the people on his campaign just so unselfishly gave of themselves, and I just feel very blessed," Liese said.
Jacob Watkins, current SGA president, said he is excited for the upcoming president and year.
"He had a strong platform and ran a great campaign," Watkins said. "The same goes for Brad, both of them. I hope all of it gets implemented. They had some great ideas. They both ran very clean, great campaigns and the support for their two groups was awesome. You could tell because the voter turn out was high, and you could tell by the support they had."
The runoff began Friday after a close race between Sasser with 32.5 percent and Cink with 36.5 percent of the votes.
"We really tried to be as organized as possible, just really trying to get people out as much as we can, and spread them over campus," Sasser said. "And you know, it really comes down to them working hard and a really good work ethic from everybody."
Cink said he would not change his strategy despite the outcome.
"I mean, it's a little bit disappointing," Cink said. "I feel like we ran a pretty good campaign and honestly, we did our best. Whatever happened, happened."
Cink said his wishes the best to his opponent.
"I mean he did a great job, and I think that it was just a clean race, and I'm glad we were able to run together," Cink said. "I'd like to see him really come out with his platform points and really elaborate on them; just do what he said he'd do."
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