University Elections

In the university elections you fill out three ballot papers. This means you elect four bodies, because your Faculty Student Representation also emerges from the Faculty Council election.

• All students elect the two Senate members and the twenty list members of the StuPa.
• The students of each faculty elect their two Faculty Council members (Medicine and Human Sciences: four) and thus their Faculty Student Representation.
• The Student Faculty Council elects the students in the commissions for the central Tuition Substitution Funds and in the Extended University Board.
• The StuPa then elects the Student Government, the equality officers, the 6-member committee for Tuition Substitution Funds, the delegations for BayStuRa and fzs, the representations in the Student Services and the department heads.

Faculty Student Representation is your representation on site. It advises on study matters, organises first-semester welcomes, study spaces and celebrations, and sits on the faculty's commissions. It emerges from the same election as the Faculty Council: the two people with the most votes enter the Faculty Council and lead Faculty Student Representation as Student Subject Spokesperson and Deputy. It also includes the next candidates in order of their votes. How large it is depends on the number of students in the faculty; the minimum is seven. To the Student Subject Initiatives

Each of the ten faculties has a Faculty Council. It decides on matters concerning the faculty, for example study and examination regulations and appointments. Two of the members are students (Medicine and Human Sciences: four), elected by the students of the respective faculty. Two from each faculty together form the Student Faculty Council. To the Student Faculty Council page

The Student Parliament is the decision-making body of the Student representation. It has 42 voting members: twenty, whom you elect directly via lists in the university election, the twenty members of the Student Faculty Council and the two student senate members. The StuPa decides what the Student representation uses its funds for, which positions it represents and which departments exist, and it elects the Student Government, which implements the resolutions. To the StuPa page · How the Student representation is structured

The Senate passes the university's statutes, including all study and examination regulations. It takes a position on appointments of professors and decides, following a statement from the University Council, on the establishment, modification and abolition of degree programmes. Two of the Senate members are students, elected by all students of the university.

The two student Senate members have a special role: they sit ex officio also on the University Council, on the Student Parliament and on the Student Government. Whoever is elected here has the broadest mandate that exists for students at this university. → Back to Senate page

Sometimes there is something else on the ballot paper: a student referendum. Then all students vote on a yes-no question that falls within the remit of Student representation. It comes about if five per cent of those entitled to vote request it or if the StuPa passes it with a two-thirds majority. If at least ten per cent of those entitled to vote agree with the majority, the result has the same effect as a StuPa resolution and binds Student representation for one year. Legal Foundations

1. Read your voting notification. You will receive it electronically before the election. It states in which faculty you are entitled to vote.
2. Log in to the voting portal. With your university login (WueLogin) and two-factor authentication, just like with WueStudy. You can do this from anywhere, throughout the entire voting week. If you don't have your own computer, you can vote during office hours in a room at the university administration; which room that is will be stated in the voting notice.
3. Fill in three ballot papers: Senate, Faculty Council, Student Parliament. There may also be student referendums in addition.
4. Distribute your votes. You have as many votes as there are seats to be allocated: two for the Senate, two for the Faculty Council, twenty for the Student Parliament. You can
5. • tick a list (list vote), then your votes go in order to the people on that list,
   • give individual people up to three votes each (cumulation or stacking),
   • distribute your votes across people from different lists (panachage); as the only group, students are allowed to do this,
   • combine both: tick individual people and additionally a list, then the remaining votes go to that list.
5. Submit and confirm. Until confirmation, you can still change everything.

Three mistakes that cost you your vote: If you cast more votes than you are entitled to, the entire ballot paper is invalid. If you tick more than one list, you lose your remaining votes. If you give one person more than three votes, the excess votes are forfeited. When in doubt, cast fewer crosses rather than too many. In 2026, 238 out of 4,467 ballot papers were invalid in the StuPa election.

What your vote achieves. The seats are distributed among the lists according to votes. Within a list, it is not the list position but the personal vote count that determines who is elected. You are truly voting for individuals.

Summer semester 2027. The Electoral Office will set the exact dates at the beginning of the semester in the election notice; we will enter them here as soon as they are confirmed.

The procedure is the same every year:

• Semester begins (April): The Electoral Office publishes the election notice with all deadlines.
• Two weeks in April/May: Lists and candidates submit their proposals. If you are not included here, you cannot be elected.
• Mid-May: The electoral register is available for inspection for three days. Check that you are correctly registered, especially if you have changed faculty.
• Two weeks before the election: The approved lists are announced. You will receive your voting notification via WueStudy.
• Mid-June, Monday 12:00 to Friday 12:00: Voting in the election portal.
• Within one week: The result is determined and published.
• Early July: Student Faculty Council and Student Parliament are constituted; the StuPa elects the Student Government.
• 1 October: The term of office begins and lasts one year.

Any student at Universität Würzburg can stand for election, including as Student Staff. For the Faculty Student Representation and Faculty Student Representation only in your own faculty.

Here's how it works:

• For the Student Parliament and the Senate you need a nomination proposal, i.e. a list signed by at least ten eligible students. A list may contain up to 60 people for the StuPa and up to six for the Senate. Each person can only appear on one list and can only support one list.
• For the Faculty Student Representation five signatures from your faculty are sufficient. If you stand for election here, you automatically stand for the Faculty Student Representation: the two with the most votes enter the Faculty Student Representation, and together with the next ones they form the Faculty Student Representation.
• You need: the nomination proposal form, the signatures of your supporters and a declaration of consent from each person on the list. The Electoral Office provides all forms in German and English.
• Deadline: two weeks in April/May, until 4 p.m. on the last day. The deadline is a cut-off deadline, nothing goes after that. To meet the deadline, a scan by email in advance is sufficient, but the original must be submitted afterwards.
• Submission: All signatures must be handwritten on the printed forms. Submit one more signature than necessary just to be safe. It's best to submit everything in person at the Electoral Office, then you'll know straight away if everything is correct: Josef-Stangl-Platz 2 (building "Alte IHK"), rear staircase, 3rd floor.

Two ways. Most people stand for election on the list of a university group. The groups usually put their lists together at the beginning of the year, so approach them early. But you can also set up your own list with ten people. If you mainly want to work for your own faculty, the Faculty Student Representation is the right place for you, where five signatures are sufficient and you don't need a university group.

If you're unsure whether and where you should stand for election: come to a StuPa meeting or write to us. We'll explain to you what the bodies do and how much time they take, without campaigning for a list.

The elected candidates will be notified by the electoral office and have three days to reject the election for good cause. Otherwise, it is deemed accepted. A later resignation is only possible for good cause; the next person on the list then moves up. Within seven days of the announcement, any eligible voter may challenge the election.

Which lists are standing is published by the Electoral Office before every election.

Here we summarise the results of the university elections from the perspective of students. The official announcements with all vote counts, elected persons and substitute representatives are published by the University Electoral Office, where you can also find all results since 2005.

University Election 2026

Voting from 15 to 19 June 2026 · 22,630 eligible student voters · 4,467 ballot papers cast (of which 238 invalid) · Voter turnout 19.74 %

Student Parliament, 20 directly elected seats

Each voting person had up to 20 votes; seats were distributed according to d'Hondt. Who was elected to the StuPa for which list is shown on the Student Parliament page and in the official announcement.

Senate: Who was elected is shown in the official announcement of the Electoral Office.

Faculty Councils and Faculty Student Representation: You can find the results of the ten faculties at the Electoral Office and on the pages of the Student Faculties.

Student Referendums 2026

Two student referendums on the expansion of the scope of the semester ticket were on the ballot. Both asked whether the semester ticket should also be valid in the city of Schweinfurt and in the districts of Schweinfurt, Haßberge, Rhön-Grabfeld and Bad Kissingen: Option 1 at a maximum surcharge of 10 euros per person, Option 2 at a maximum of 20 euros. Both were rejected.

Both results reached the quorum of ten per cent of eligible voters and thus bind the student representation for one year.

Previous Elections

You can find all results since 2005 at the University Electoral Office. Until 2022, the Student Parliament was called the "Student Convention"; the older results are listed under this name there.