Kansas University students have elected Mason Heilman, a junior from Lawrence, as their next student body president.

Heilman, who ran under the United Students coalition, barely edged JJ Siler, the Envision coalition candidate, by a 95-vote margin.

Heilman and his running mate, May Davis, garnered 2,696 votes to 2,601 for Siler and Alex Porte. Adam Wood and Jonathan Wilson, under the Students of Liberty coalition, got 339 votes, and Tutu Lee and Rahul Desai, who ran a campaign featuring a YouTube video showing them shooting guns at a target, finished in fourth with 205 votes.

The 5,921 voters represent approximately one-fourth of the total eligible voters.

“It’s just very surreal,” Heilman said after the unofficial results were announced. “It just hasn’t quite sunk in yet.”

He said he intended to focus on building a relationship with a new chancellor and provost, and showing them how important student governance was at KU.

He also hoped to push proposals that would allow students to recoup 100 percent of tuition if they withdrew from a class in the first week, and one that would remove men’s basketball games played during winter break from the student ticket package, and make them available for students to purchase separately.

Davis’ name appeared on the ballot even though she is facing charges she intimidated elections commissioners.

She is appealing an earlier ruling that had her removed from the election.