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On 08/04/2016 9:14 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> Eoghan Glynn wrote:
>>> However, the turnout continues to slide, dipping below 20% for
>>> the first time:
>>
>>    Election | Electorate (delta %) | Votes | Turnout (delta %)
>>    ===========================================================
>>    Oct '13  | 1106                 | 342   | 30.92
>>    Apr '14  | 1510    (+36.52)  | 448   | 29.69   (-4.05)
>>    Oct '14  | 1893       (+25.35)  | 506   | 26.73   (-9.91)
>>    Apr '15  | 2169       (+14.58)  | 548   | 25.27   (-5.48)
>>    Oct '15  | 2759       (+27.20)  | 619   | 22.44   (-11.20)
>>    Apr '16  | 3284       (+19.03)  | 652   | 19.85   (-11.51)
>>
>>>
>>> This ongoing trend of a decreasing proportion of the electorate
>>> participating in TC elections is a concern.
>
> One way to look at it is that every cycle (mostly due to the habit of
> giving summit passes to recent contributors) we have more and more
> one-patch contributors (more than 600 in Mitaka), and those usually are
> not really interested in voting... So the electorate number is a bit
> inflated, resulting in an apparent drop in turnout.
>
> It would be interesting to run the same analysis but taking only >=3
> patch contributors as "expected voters" and see if the turnout still
> drops as much.
>
> Long term I'd like to remove the summit pass perk (or no longer link it
> to "one commit"). It will likely result in a drop in contributors
> numbers (gasp), but a saner electorate.
>

just for reference, while only affecting a subset of the electorate, if 
you look at the PTL elections, they all had over 40% turnout (even the 
older and larger projects).

it may be because of those with "one commit", but if that were the case, 
you would think the turnout would be inline/similar to the PTL elections.

cheers,
-- 
gord