Overview
- The final tally was 1,228 votes for no confidence and 501 against, with 17 void, and the returning officer said the president‑elect is deemed to have resigned subject to procedure.
- Counting was informally suspended after the extraordinary returning officer reported obstruction, intimidation and unwarranted hostility from representatives, then resumed to reach a result.
- Verification was complicated by widespread challenges to proxy votes and reports that membership registers from 1961–1980 were missing, with some alumni reportedly turned away.
- The vote followed leaked messages in which Abaraonye appeared to celebrate Charlie Kirk’s shooting, an incident US authorities described as a political assassination.
- The Union faces reports of up to £500,000 in frozen donations and numerous speaker withdrawals, and allies of Kirk and Turning Point USA had threatened a boycott unless Abaraonye was removed.