It’s political season for NC State’s student government. Campaigning for the First-Year Undergraduate Student Senate and Graduate Student Senate has begun and will end Sept. 14 at 8 p.m. Ballots close Sept. 15 at 8 p.m. 

First-year students can vote in the First-Year Undergraduate race. This includes transfer students and freshmen. Graduate students can vote in the Grad Student race. 

There are 42 candidates running for 10 seats in the First-Year Undergraduate Student race. There were six people running in the fall 2014 election.

There are three candidates running for the two Graduate Students seats.

The Elections Commission will have a polling location in Wolf Plaza on Sept. 15 for students to vote. This is tentatively set for 9 a.m.–8 p.m. Students can vote at getinvolved.ncsu.edu. The elections commission is also in the process of planning a reveal party similar to the spring 2015 election reveal in Talley Student Union.

The reveal party will be Sept. 15 at 9:30 p.m., but the location has not yet been decided. 

The election commission expects this year’s election to be different than last year’s fall elections due to the increase in the number of students running. This season’s election holds the record for the most number of students running for Senate seats in the fall in at least four years.