Everyone on the staff and Board of the Drupal Association would like to congratulate our newest board member:
Shyamala Rajaram.
In addition to congratulating Shyamala, please join me in thanking the 22 other candidates who put themselves out there in service of Drupal and volunteered for election. It's brave and generous to nominate yourself for this work, and we should all be very grateful that our community has so many people willing to contribute this way.
This was the fifth election we've held for at-large board seats at the Drupal Association. This year, we had two specific goals for the elections:
- More candidate diversity - We had four female candidates this year, representing 17% of the field. This was a big improvement over last year, when there was one female candidate. We also had 23 candidates, from 12 different countries—including South American and Asian countries.
- Increase voter turnout - This year, 2,126 of you voted in our election. Our pool of eligible voters was 135,747, so that means our voter turnout was 1.56%. This is still low, but a vast improvement over the last election, which saw a .89% turnout.
Our next steps will be to reach out to the candidates for their evaluation of the elections experience. We also want to hear from you. Please tell us about your experience with the elections process in the comments below so that we can include them in our planning for the 2017 elections.
And finally, you may recall that after some public conversation last year we also changed our self-nomination process in 2016 to ask candidates to opt-in for sharing their election voting data. We use IRV voting and are glad to share that data with you. We've redacted the names of candidates who did not opt-in to share their voting data, though vote counts are still represented.
Voting Results
Counting votes using Instant Runoff Voting. There were 23 candidates competing for 1 seats. The number of voters was 2,126 and there were 2,126 valid votes.
- Round 1
- Round 2
- Round 3
- Round 4
- Round 5
- Round 6
- Round 7
- Round 8
- Round 9
- Round 10
- Round 11
- Round 12
- Round 13
- Round 14
- Round 15
- Round 16
- Round 17
- Round 18
- Round 19
- Round 20
- Round 21
- Round 22
The bar charts below show the vote counts for each candidate in each round. Place the mouse over a bar to see the number of votes.
- Yellow — Votes carried over from the previous round.
- Green — Votes received in this round.
- Red — Votes transferred away in this round.
A candidate's votes in a round is the sum of the yellow and green bars. Since the green and red bars represent votes being transferred, the sum of the green and red bars is the same.
The exhausted bar represents votes where the voter did not indicate a next preference and thus there were no candidates to transfer the vote to. The threshold bar (where shown) indicates the number of votes that ensures that a candidate will win a seat.
Round 1
(next)
Count of first choices.
Round 2
Count after eliminating tolabs and transferring votes.
Round 3
Count after eliminating shehrevar and transferring votes.
Round 4
Count after eliminating Kenndillard and transferring votes.
Round 5
Count after eliminating krylov and transferring votes.
Round 6
Count after eliminating knibals and transferring votes.
Round 7
Count after eliminating Redacted and transferring votes.
Round 8
Count after eliminating tomgrandy and transferring votes.
Round 9
Count after eliminating Redacted and transferring votes.
Round 10
Count after eliminating Gemdev and transferring votes.
Round 11
Count after eliminating TheJustinRhodes and transferring votes.
Round 12
Count after eliminating voidberg and transferring votes.
Round 13
Count after eliminating drupalviking and transferring votes.
Round 14
Count after eliminating Redacted and transferring votes.
Round 15
Count after eliminating jpamental and transferring votes.
Round 16
Count after eliminating davidhernandez and transferring votes.
Round 17
Count after eliminating johnkennedy and transferring votes.
Round 18
Count after eliminating rachit_gupta and transferring votes.
Round 19
Count after eliminating svettes and transferring votes.
Round 20
Count after eliminating danigrrl and transferring votes.
Round 21
Count after eliminating MatthewS and transferring votes.
Round 22
(prev)
Count after eliminating -enzo- and transferring votes. Candidate Shyamala is elected.
Winners
Winner is Shyamala.
Flickr photo: Clyde Robinson
Comments
Congratulations and thanks
Congratulations to the new Board member, Shyamala! I'm sure you'll do a great job.
Also, thanks for the detailed break-down of the election results! Really interesting to see the voting mechanism in action.
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Congratulations
Congratulations Shyamala Rajaram.
Ideas for displaying the results
Some ideas that would make it easier to follow the voting and who is next out would be to order the candidates with the most first round votes at the top to those with the least first round votes at the bottom. Since they give up their votes according to the first round. Add a third color to the bar charts that shows the first round votes throughout the charts.
Make the Exhausted bar a different color (or a different background color) or at least add an asterisk and a note so people get the idea that it is not a candidate. Somehow I skipped over that text at the top. ;)
I find it interesting that more votes went to "nobody" than the candidate that won. Just goes to show that you should not select only a few candidates. Only 58 votes between the final two candidates.
Congratulations!
Congratulations to Shyamala for winning the election.
This is the first time I've seen IRV work, and it looks very promising. I did notice, however, that the votes for women went mostly to other women, especially evident in the final rounds, even though Schnitzel also received many votes from the transfers. This goes to show that the sequencing of preferences do matter. And that gender sensitivies do happen in a possibly male environment... who voted with their... *me rolling my eyes*.
Congratulations Shyamala
Congratulations Shyamala Rajaram. :) :)
Congratulations!!
It gives me great pleasure to extend my warmest congratulations to you @Shyamala.
Congratulations Shyamala Rajaram. :) :)
Congratulations Shyamala Rajaram. :) :)
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