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Elections

Two-tier elections at NLA 

Class Representative

Election of Class representative

Annually the student council ensures that one class representative is elected and alternate for all cohorts in all study programmes, who will be the class's representative in the Student Council (SR), which is the local democratic student body at NLA. As a class representative, you represent your cohort/study program and have the right to vote in the Student Council at your place of study for the rest of the academic year. 

National parliament

Election of members to Parliament

What is a Student Parliament (SP) election? The Student Parliament holds direct and secret elections in which all students have the opportunity to participate every spring. The election is held digitally and administered by an organizational adviser at NLA together with SP. Otherwise, you also have the opportunity to be elected via the parliamentary model as SR representative if you are part of the local Student Council (SR).

When is the Class representative elected?

The confidence election takes place in two parts at NLA: 
1: Digital union election, for the coming semester in the spring, with a subsequent constitutional meeting before the joint holiday. 
2: Supplementary elections, for 1st-year students and other study programmes/ Kull without union representative, after the start of studies in the autumn, with subsequent addition of new members to the student council in September.

When is the Student Parliament elected?

Student parliamentary elections take place in two parts at NLA:
1: Digital election, for the coming semester in the spring, with a subsequent constitutional meeting before the joint holiday.
2: Supplement from the Student Council, where each student council registers its representative for the current academic year, no later than 1 October. 

What does it mean to be a Class Representative?

As a class representative you assume responsibility for contributing actively to looking after and promoting the students' interests and needs at your place of study, as well as having the opportunity to influence and participate in various positions and the opportunities the position provides: 

  • Enroll to ORG101 (5 credits) 
  • Contact person towards your lecturers 
  • Voting member of the Student Council
  • Participate in NLA and student committees and boards
  • Political training and leadership experience 
  • Contribute to increased student welfare and influence students' everyday life 
  • Build networks and new relationships 
  • Improve the CV

What does it mean to become a member of the Student Parliament?

As a member of the Student Parliament, you assume responsibility for contributing actively to looking after and promoting the students' interests and needs at your place of study, as well as having the opportunity to influence and participate in various positions and the opportunities the position provides: 

  • Enroll to ORG101 (5 credits) 
  • Participate in NLA and national student committees and boards
  • Political training and leadership experience 
  • Contribute to increased student welfare and influence students' everyday life 
  • Build networks and new relationships 
  • Improve the CV 

Administration of

Physical Class representative for all class/ studyprogrammes

(For Student Council)

  1. When you are conducting the (physical) election for your class representative, you will have to coordinate this with the study programme managers. If you are unsure who is responsible for your study programme, contact the organizational adviser. 
  2. All classes in all study programmes must elect one class representative and one vara (substitute), who are elected openly and efficiently in each class. 
  3. Clarify with the lecturer when elections will be held in the class (recommended 10 minutes at the beginning of the lecture).
  4. Briefly inform about what it means to be a class representative (description above), and the lecturer leaves the room during the actual election. 
  5. Two persons take responsibility for the election and counting of votes. 
  6. Register the candidates (can also be suggested by others). 
  7. Write down the candidates for election, and choose a class representative and vara (show of hands or votes on a piece of paper). 
  8. Announce the elected class representative and vara to the class, and share their contact informations. 
  9. Inform the class representative and the vara that they will receive summons to the Student Council and other relevant information from the student council leader. 
  10. The two persons who took responsibility for the election then send the name and contact information of the newly elected class representative and vara to the organizational adviser who follows up administratively.