Tara Singh elected DSG president, Dylan Cawley to be EVP

Junior Tara Singh will serve as the 2025-26 Duke Student Government president, and junior Dylan Cawley will serve as the executive vice president.

A total of 1,982 undergraduate students cast a ballot in this year’s DSG election, which was open from noon Monday to noon Tuesday, wrote DSG Attorney General Chloe Decker, a senior, in a Tuesday evening email to The Chronicle. The previous election cycle received 500 more votes, with a total turnout of 2,482 students.

Students cast their ballots through ranked-choice voting, in which students could rank the listed candidates, including write-ins.

Of the 1,982 students who submitted a ballot, 1,757 voted in the presidential election. There were two rounds of voting due to the instant runoff voting system. In the first round, Singh received 952 first-rank votes, junior Katelyn Cai received 726 votes and there were 79 write-ins.

In the second and final round of the election, the write-ins were redistributed and 33 votes were exhausted — meaning that 33 students only voted for a write-in and did not rank either Cai or Singh as their second or third choices. Singh and Cai both received an additional 23 votes to their tally.

In total, Singh received 975 votes and Cai received 749.

In the election for EVP, Cawley — who ran uncontested — earned 1,488 votes.

Singh currently serves as DSG’s vice president of campus life and was formerly the director of residential experience and policy during her sophomore year. She hopes to improve the student experience, develop strong connections with student groups and increase DSG’s transparency to the student body.

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