University of Illinois junior Frank Calabrese, 20, lost his campaign for student body president earlier this month. So now he’s running for the Illinois House of Representatives.

Illinois House District 103 includes the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana, and nearly half its constituents are UI students. The district has been represented by Democrat Naomi Jakobsson since 2002, and Calabrese is running as the nominee of the Republican party.

The UI student body president is selected by the campus student senate. Calabrese, a three-term student senator, placed last in a three-way race for the presidency in an April 3 election.