Congratulations to Rosie, Victoria, Dariusz and Lorenzo! This system offers a helpful way of seeing whether there is a natural break in the election results. In this case there was a growing gap between 5th and 6th place results as the process resolved.
Looking at the gap between (1 + 4), (4 + 5), and (5 + 6) as the # of remaining candidates dropped: # left | 1st-4th | 4th-5th | 5th-6th | 19 | 185 | 27 | 141 | 9 | 131 | 25 | 223 | 6 | 97 | 50 | 313 | 5 | 146 | 19 | – | On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 3:40 PM Chris Keating <[email protected]> wrote: > I too am disappointed (but not surprised) that STV had almost no effect at >> all on the outcome of this election >> > > This may be true, but if it's true, it was only true very narrowly. The > margin between the 4th and 5th placed candidates was 12.27 votes in a > situation where 1,188 were needed to win. > > Had that gone very marginally differently, we'd all be talking about how > amazing it was that a black African woman had been elected to the Board for > the first time in history. > > We can observe a few other things about how it worked out: > - by and large votes did not seem to transfer between Global South > candidates - when one Global south candidate was knocked out their votes > did not usually go to other Global South candidates > - most votes ending up counting; of 6,800 or so initially there were 6,000 > counted in the final round, that is a fairly low dropout rate > - also, if all 8 Board seats had been elected at the same time rather than > in 2 batches in 2 years, we'd have 2 Global South candidates in the final 8 > and probably be pretty pleased with the results. (Is it still an option for > the Board to do this and appoint Eliane, Mike, Pascale and Ivan and then > skip next year's planned election?) > > Thanks, > > Chris > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/3GWCGYPKVJMGNJ6UXWQ5553RGYDPRBYN/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266
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