> On Oct 29, 2014, at 3:32 PM, Eoghan Glynn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Folks, > > I haven't seen the customary number-crunching on the recent TC election, > so I quickly ran the numbers myself. > > Voter Turnout > ============= > > The turnout rate continues to decline, in this case from 29.7% to 26.7%. > > Here's how the participation rates have shaped up since the first TC2.0 > election: > > Election | Electorate | Voted | Turnout | Change > ------------------------------------------------ > 10/2013 | 1106 | 342 | 30.9% | -8.0% > 04/2014 | 1510 | 448 | 29.7% | -4.1% > 10/2014 | 1892 | 506 | 26.7% | -9.9%
Overall percentage of the electorate voting is declining, but absolute numbers of voters has increased. And in fact, the electorate has grown more than the turnout has declined. > > Partisan Voting > =============== > > As per the usual analysis done by ttx, the number of ballots that > strictly preferred candidates from an individual company (with > multiple candidates) above all others: > > HP ahead in 30 ballots (5.93%) > RHAT ahead in 18 ballots (3.56%) > RAX ahead in 8 ballots (1.58%) > > The top 6 pairings strictly preferred above all others were: > > 35 voters (6.92%) preferred Monty Taylor & Doug Hellmann (HP/HP) > 34 voters (6.72%) preferred Monty Taylor & Sean Dague (HP/HP) > 26 voters (5.14%) preferred Anne Gentle & Monty Taylor (RAX/HP) > 21 voters (4.15%) preferred Russell Bryant & Sean Dague (RHAT/HP) > 21 voters (4.15%) preferred Russell Bryant & Eoghan Glynn (RHAT/RHAT) > 16 voters (3.16%) preferred Doug Hellmann & Sean Dague (HP/HP) > > Conclusion > ========== > > The rate of potentially partisan voting didn't diverge significantly > from the norms we've seen in previous elections. > > The continuing decline in the turnout rate is a concern however, as > the small-scale changes tried (blogging on TC activity, standardized > questions in the TC nomination mails) have not arrested the fall-off > in participation. > > Cheers, > Eoghan > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
