The voting process to elect a new Aberdeen University Rector is under way.

It follows the controversial suspension of the results in November after allegations of campaigning 'irregularities'.

Maggie Chapman was installed as rector in 2015, however, her three-year-term is now coming to a end.

Ms Chapman and her supporters were embroiled in a campaigning row last year which ended with the election being suspended.

The rector's main role is to represent and support the students of the university and have a direct relationship with them.

There are five candidates in the running for the role, the current rector Ms Chapman, Aberdeen University students Israr Khan and Angus Hepburn, lawyer James Steel, and the singer and broadcaster Fiona Kennedy.

At the start of the year, a group of sixty-two students reportedly nominated the campus cat as a candidate for rector

However, the university's elections committee excluded the Buttons from the ballot.

The results will be announced on Thursday.