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Establishment of electoral registers – check your voting rights

Concerning the elections of May 2025, the Central Electorate Committee hereby announces the following:

3 February 2025: All electoral registers will be established for the elections of the University Council,Faculty Councils and the Service Department Councils of the University of Groningen

4 February 2025: you will receive an email to view your details in the relevant electoral registers

4 February 2025 until 6 2025: You can submit an error correction request if you were wrongly or incorrectly included, or if you were wrongly not included in the electoral register

No later than 10 February 2025: The Central Electoral Committee will reach a decision concerning any error correction request as referred to under 3

11 February 2025 until 25 March 2025: You can appeal against the Central Electoral Committee’s decision as referred to under 4. Please submit your letter of appeal via csb@rug.nl.

By virtue of the Higher Education and Research Act and the University of Groningen Electoral Regulations, all students and staff of the University of Groningen have both active and passive voting rights. This means that any student or member of staff is entitled to vote (active voting rights) or stand for election (passive voting rights) for the University consultative bodies on condition that they are included in the electoral register of the Council or Service where they are employed or enrolled as a student.

For more information about the consultative bodies and the UG elections, see rug.nl/vote. Here you will also find more information on standing as a candidate.

Candidacy – stand for election!

Before the elections in May 2025, the Central Electoral Committee would like to announce that

1. from 10 to 19 March 2025, students and staff can choose to stand for election via the digital candidacy of the University Council, the faculty councils, and the employee councils of the UG.

2. on 20 March 2025, the Central Electoral Committee will hold a meeting to investigate the submitted candidate lists and decide if there are any omissions. The Central Electoral Committee will inform the submitter of the candidate list about any detected omissions. From 21 to 25 March 2025, the submitter will have the opportunity to resolve the omissions.

3. on 26 March 2025, the Central Electoral Committee will determine the validity of the submitted candidate lists as well as any statements establishing electoral pacts between multiple parties within a section. From 27 March to 8 May 2025, a notice of objection can be submitted to the Board of the University via csb@rug.nl.

4. on 26 March 2025, the confirmed candidate lists will be published on the UG website via announcement 3.

Based on the Higher Education and Research Act (WHW) and the UG Electoral Regulations, staff members and students are eligible to vote and be voted for. This means that staff members and students can vote (active voting rights) or be voted for (passive voting rights) in the elections for the University’s consultative participation bodies, if you are registered in the electoral register of the council where you work or where you are registered as a student.

For more information about the consultative participation bodies and the UG elections, visit the links below.

List of candidates adopted

For the elections in May, 2025, the Central Electoral Committee announces:

that the list of candidates of the participating parties for the University Council, Faculty Councils and the Employee Councils elections have been adopted.

Under the blue button ‘list of candidates’, you will find the participating parties with the candidates listed in the order in which they were nominated on the list of candidates.

The University election will be held from 12 to 16 May 2025.

Election period

For the elections in May, 2025, the Central Electoral Committee announces that on:

1. Monday 12 May all persons with voting rights* receive a digital invitation to vote;

2. Monday 12 May, 7 a.m. to Friday 16 May, 5.00 p.m. votes may be cast using the voting application made available for this purpose on www.rug.nl/vote;

3. Monday 19 May the results of the elections for the Faculty Councils, the Employee Councils and the University Council will be announced.

Students can cast a vote for the faculty council for which they are registered as a student. Employees can cast a vote for the faculty council or employee council where they are employed as an employee. In addition, all students and employees vote for the University Council (student or staff section).

* You are eligible to vote if you were registered as a student or employed as an employee on 3 February 2025. Any voters who erroneously did not receive a digital invitation to vote can report this to the Central Electoral Committee (via csb@rug.nl).

Elected candidates

To be announced on Monday, May 19, 2025.