The Graduate and Professional Student Council announced the results of its elections yesterday, giving 12 graduate students seats on the council and leaving two others to await a decision regarding how a tie in one of the races will be handled.

The tie was in the race for the Master of Business Administration students seat. Anne Brown and Ron Williams both received 19 votes in the three-person race. Ralph Morales III, the other candidate for MBA students, received four votes.

Jed Brown, GPSC election officer, said the council will determine how to resolve the tie in it's next meeting.

Alex Rogstad and Kathleen Fernicola were elected to represent the College of Agriculture, Robert K. Lanza and J.E. Rogers were elected for non-degree seeking graduate students, and Melanie Ayers and Patrick Bridges will represent the College of Science.

Six candidates ran unopposed. They were Teresa Burrelsman for the College of Architecture, Alexandre Sugiyama for non-MBA students in the College of Business and Public Administration, Gordon Zaft for the College of Engineering and Mines, Colleen O'Donnell and Anna Young for the College of Law, and David Gortler for the College of Pharmacy.

Five of the 18 candidates were running for re-election.

Brown said there was a 200 percent increase in ballots this year due to a new mail-in process. Ballots were mailed out to each graduate student, and constituents were able to vote through the mail instead of going to a polling place.

Brown said 300 of the 4,000 ballots sent out were returned. He said the number was low because so many of the candidates were unopposed.