From midday on Monday 27th October 2025, prospective candidates can complete the attached form and email it to our returning officer ([email protected]); this must be done by midday on Monday 10th November 2025. You will need the nominations of 10 Jewish students from at least 5 different JSocs. You will also be required to email photos of the student ID cards of each of your nominators.

Your nomination will not be accepted until both the completed form and the photos of university IDs have been received. 

Candidates will be required to send the following materials to our returning officer Arieh, by midday Tuesday 11th November 2025, for the candidate announcement: 

• A manifesto, which could outline your campaign policies or your experience. The manifesto must be a minimum of 100 words, and we recommend it is no more than 550 words. If presented in poster format, a plain text manifesto must also be submitted (both must be in PDF format)
• A video, which could introduce you as a candidate or your campaign. This video must have a maximum length of 90 seconds and include subtitles (a recommended website is https://www.kapwing.com/subtitles)
• A photo, in which your face can be clearly seen (to be used for all promotional material).

For examples of previous material, click here for 2024-25 candidates, click here for 2023-24 candidates, click here for 2022-3 candidates or click here for 2021-22 candidates

Campaign rules:

Please see the UJS Election Rulebook 2025/26.

For any queries regarding rules, contact the Returning Officer, Arieh, at [email protected]. 

Meetings

If successful in this nominations process, candidates will be required to attend 2 meetings:

• With the returning officer. This meeting will detail the code of conduct and election rules. It will be held over video call, and candidates are permitted to invite their campaign managers to the meeting too. This will take place on Tuesday 11th November 2025 at 12.30pm.

• With the CEO Mervyn Kaye, who will meet with each candidate individually on Tuesday 11th November. This meeting contains a briefing so that each candidate has the same key information on UJS heading into the election. 

Debate

Successfully nominated candidates will be invited to attend and take part in a Presidential Debate in person. 

In person debates are open to in person attendance for all members of UJS. 

Questions will be taken from the room and online in the question portion of the debates. 

The debate will be held the evening of Sunday 16th November in London.

Sign up to attend the debate in-person here.

Additional Information

We would like to remind prospective candidates at this stage that public campaigning is not permitted until 9am on Wednesday 12th November 2025. Please direct any queries or complaints to the returning officer Arieh.

Candidates are reminded that before, during and after this election UJS expects our code of conduct to be followed. Any complaints relating to the election will be dealt with by the returning officer. 

This is an incredibly exciting opportunity and exercise of Jewish students’ democratic rights in their grassroots union. Candidates’ well-being is our priority throughout the election process. Please contact the UJS President or any of the UJS team throughout the election process for impartial welfare support. 

This process has been approved by the returning officer. The election will be held in accordance with the UJS constitution and bye-laws, which can be read here.

Voting

In order to vote, you will have had to register on the UJS website by midday on Tuesday 25th November 2025. All sign-ups to the UJS website must have a JSoc, a valid graduation year and a valid email. Sign-ups will be vetted and checked by the office admin team and may be requested to submit a valid student ID. Only Jewish students are eligible to vote in this election - for more information, find our constitution and bye-laws here. Registered members will receive a voter key via email with a link to vote from Election Buddy - make sure you check all your mailboxes as well as your junk mail. Please contact us ([email protected]) if you have any issues.