Lissa Knudsen won the GPSA presidential seat for academic year 2009-10.
She will take office in mid-May.
Knudsen received 55 percent of the vote against her opponent, B. Lee Drake.
"I am honored to have been part of a competitive race," Knudsen said in a statement to the Daily Lobo on Friday. "Drake is an outstanding candidate, and I am lucky to have had the opportunity to run against him."
Drake received 256 of the 569 total votes in the presidential election for 45 percent of the vote.
"I'd like to make full congratulations to Lissa Knudsen," he said. "I know she'll do a great job next year, and I think graduate students across the board will benefit."
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All eight of the GPSA amendments passed, and the two motions of no confidence in President David Schmidly and Executive Vice President David Harris passed by margins of more than 70 percent.
Schmidly was unavailable for comment Friday.
Harris declined to comment.
The ballot for the three omitted motions - including the no confidence in former Regents President Jamie Koch, the external audit of the University's finances, and the re-evaluation of the decision-making structures at UNM - will be available to graduate students Monday through Thursday and will be offered in the same online format as the presidential election.
Danny Hernandez ran uncontested for GPSA council chairman and said he looked forward to working with Knudsen.
"I think I would have been happy with either Lissa or Lee," Hernandez said. "But I think Lissa has a little more experience than Lee. I look forward to working with both of them, and I expect to be working with both of them."
