New Delhi: The Left Unity retained its stronghold in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) by sweeping all four central panel posts in the students' union elections, the election committee said on Thursday.

A year after the ABVP broke a decade-long dry spell by winning the joint secretary's post, the Left alliance — comprising AISA, SFI and DSF — made a clean comeback in the 2025-26 JNUSU polls.

Aditi Mishra of AISA won the president's post, defeating ABVP's Vikas Patel by 449 votes, polling 1,937 votes against Patel's 1,488. Mishra, a PhD scholar at the School of International Studies, said the result was a mandate “against hooliganism, Islamophobia, casteism and misogyny.”

Kizhakoot Gopika Babu of SFI was elected vice-president, securing 3,101 votes and defeating ABVP's Tanya Kumari by 1,314 votes.

Sunil Yadav of DSF and Danish Ali of AISA won the general secretary and joint secretary posts, defeating Rajeshwar Kant Dubey and Anuj of the ABVP, respectively.

Of 9,043 eligible voters, 67 per cent cast their votes. The vibrant campus polls saw enthusiastic participation with campaign songs, drumbeats and slogans.

With this win, the Left Unity reaffirmed its political dominance on the JNU campus, long regarded as a bastion of student activism and debate.