CSM5 Election - The results are in!

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CSM5 Election - The results are in!
26 May 2010, 9:27 am



CSM5 Elections - Results

The elections for the fifth CSM have ended. This election saw a record turnout both in terms of numbers of votes and the proportion of eligible voters that chose to vote. This election was a tight race with some rather fierce campaigning going on. I'm proud to be able to announce that the delegates of the fifth Council of Stellar Management will be:

Votes	Character Name	Real Name	Country
4,116	Mynxee	Carole Pivarnik	United States
3,360	Ankhesentapemkah	Eva Jobse	Netherlands
2,521	Dierdra Vaal	Valentijn Geirnaert	Netherlands
2,196	Korvin	Andrey Antonov	Russia
1,649	Vuk Lau	Vuk Lau	Serbia
1,553	TeaDaze	Jason Renouf	Guernsey
1,519	Meissa Anunthiel	Stephan Pirson	Belgium
1,463	Trebor Daehdoow	Robert Woodhead	United States
1,260	Sokratesz	Tim Heusschen	Netherlands

Congratulations to all of the delegates. Carole Pivarnik (Mynxee) is the Chairwoman for CSM5 due to receiving the highest total number of votes. In their first meeting, the delegates will elect a vice-chair, secretary and vice-secretary.

The alternate delegates, having gained the positions 10-14 in the election, are as follows:

Votes	Character Name	Real Name	Country
1,178	mazzilliu	Allison Nixon	United States
1,173	T'Amber	Paul Oosterman	New Zealand
1,172	Helen Highwater	Iain Compton	Germany
1,104	ALPHA12125	Marcel Alesi	Germany
1,004	ElvenLord	Tomas Ljumovic	Serbia

The delegates will be flown to Iceland to take part in a CSM-CCP summit on June 22^nd until June 25^th. The first online meeting of CSM5 will be held in the coming weeks. You can read about the CSM on the forums or EVElopedia or even raise an issue with them.

We would also like to thank all those who ran as candidates and campaigned. We've seen a huge amount of campaign activity for this election and it has been great to watch.

Voter demographics

As with all of the post-election results, these will be identical in format to the previous results demographics.

There were 39,433 votes cast by eligible voters (i.e. older than 30 days and thus able to vote), amassing a turnout of 12.67% - a record turnout. Of the total votes cast, 754 voters (1.9%) chose to abstain.

The gender difference between voters was something that seemed to have quite some difference, with male voters being 96.9% and female voters being 3.1% of the total voting population. This is compared to the 96% male and 4% female ratio of the player base, indicating that male users were more likely than female users to vote in this election.

The average age of users who voted was 30.8. The average age of accounts voting was 2.18 years, meaning that most votes were cast by veteran players. This is a slight decrease on previous elections, which indicates that a larger number of relatively new players participated in this election. 46.36% of the voting accounts were from users older than 2 years and 7.49% from users older than 5 years. 0.7% were older than 7 years.

Age in days	Frequency	Cumulative
30	8598	21.80%
250	7765	41.50%
500	5113	54.46%
750	5351	68.03%
1000	3628	77.23%
1250	3021	84.89%
1500	2622	91.54%
1750	1070	94.26%
2000	1082	97.00%
2250	659	98.67%
2500	524	100.00%

The table below reveals some interesting facts. It displays voters sorted by countries, percentage of votes originating from each country, the total number of voters as a percentage of subscribers from that country and the subscription percentage based of that country.

Country	Total	% of voters	Voters as % of subscribers	Subscription %
United States	13,735	34.83%	11.22%	37.74%
United Kingdom	4,863	12.33%	13.32%	11.25%
Germany	4,018	10.19%	13.40%	9.24%
Russia	2,241	5.68%	9.80%	7.04%
Canada	1,949	4.94%	11.72%	5.13%
Netherlands	1,335	3.39%	19.11%	2.15%
Australia	1,239	3.14%	11.13%	3.43%
France	963	2.44%	12.81%	2.32%
Sweden	903	2.29%	14.86%	1.87%
Denmark	801	2.03%	12.57%	1.96%
Finland	554	1.40%	17.24%	0.99%
Norway	488	1.24%	11.47%	1.31%
Ukraine	451	1.14%	11.36%	1.22%
Belgium	433	1.10%	18.31%	0.73%
Austria	375	0.95%	13.48%	0.86%
Poland	360	0.91%	11.65%	0.95%
Romania	352	0.89%	16.26%	0.67%
Italy	314	0.80%	15.03%	0.64%
Ireland	254	0.64%	19.03%	0.41%
Spain	246	0.62%	12.29%	0.62%
Other	3,559	9.03%	11.60%	9.46%
	39,433	100.00%		100.00%

Much like in previous elections, several countries had a very high voting percentage compared to the average. In this election, we saw this with the Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland and Finland. 9.8% of Russian subscribers voted, compared to just 5.94% in the CSM4 election. Serbia had the overall highest attendance, with 28.98% of its 383 subscribers voting.

You can compare these results with those of the previous elections by reading the following dev blogs:

CSM 1 Election Results

CSM 2 Election Results

CSM 3 Election Results

CSM 4 Election Results

Our congratulations to the elected delegates of the fifth CSM.

-CCP Diagoras

 

Source: eve-online.com | devBlog