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.
--
Thierry Carrez (ttx)
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