CSM 11 Election Results | EVE Online

CSM 11 Election Results

2016-05-13 - By CCP Logibro

Greetings Capsuleers

During the EVE Keynote at Fanfest 2016 (you can watch it here), we announced the results of the Council of Stellar Management (CSM) 11 elections. If you didn’t see them then, here are the results again:

If you are looking for contact details for the CSM 11 members, you can find them here. Keen observers will also notice that we have four permanent attendees rather than just the two announced at Fanfest.

For those not familiar with the CSM, the are a player-elected representative body for the players to CCP. CSM members are involved in ongoing discussions with developers about the game and future changes that are being planned, bringing both community feedback and expert opinions. Part of the council is also flown out to CCP Iceland twice a year for a multi-day summit with the development teams. To learn more about the CSM, head here.

For those of you wanting to see the votes themselves, they can be found here, alongside the code (in Python) used to run the election. The election is run using the same system as last year, the Wright STV system. One thing to note is that one of the candidates withdrew before the results were announced, and as such was withdrawn using the built in mechanic within the vote tally script. (More details on the formatting of the .blt file can be found here in section 3.1). A copy of the audit log with the candidate not withdrawn is also included with the above package.

In total, we had 22,345 votes cast in the election for CSM 11. This is lower than last year, and while we don’t judge the Council’s effectiveness only on the total number of votes cast, we do take this as a sign that we need to make improvements in how CCP works with the CSM and how we promote the elections.

We also had a drop in the total number of candidates running from last year, but at 53 players still had a healthy variety of candidates to vote for.

Here’s the breakdown for voters by country. As usual, United States has a strong showing with the United Kingdom and Germany close behind.

The majority of accounts that voted this year were created after 2012, with the highest number coming from 2013.

 

Year Created

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

Number

224

309

441

893

1082

1268

1679

1739

1836

2484

3506

3283

3162

459

As normal, we saw the most number of people voting on the first two days of the election. Unlike most years though, the second day of voting saw a significantly higher number of votes than the first, but this was due to server issues that also affected the voting portal on the first day of the elections.

Day of Voting

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

Votes

2955

3848

2377

1307

783

952

700

524

641

473

407

331

283

790

283

284

146

447

290

241

292

309

733

1008

1420

542

We’re looking forward to working with CSM 11 over the course of the next year to help us make EVE Online a better game for everyone. We hope we’ll succeed in keeping you all better updated with the process and we know the CSM are very keen to increase the visibility of our work together this term. A big shout out to those who voted and those who helped spread awareness of space democracy, such as EVE Vote Match, CSM Watch and more. Upwards and onwards!