[maemo-community] Maemo Community Council election Q1 09: provisional results

[From: Dave Neary]

Hi all,

I will get getting the results online later, but I wanted to let
everyone know as early as possible the results of the election.

You can download the ballots yourself & run the election with a variety
of different STV counting schemes using OpenSTV at
http://maemo.org/vote/blt.php?election_id=6

I would like to extend my congratulations to the new Maemo community
council members:
 Andrew Flegg (Jaffa),
 Ryan Abel (GeneralAntilles),
 Tim Samoff (timsamoff),
 Kees Jongenburger (keesj),
 Alan Bruce (qole).

Full results follow:

Election title: Maemo Community Council elections, Q1 2009
Method: Random Transfer STV with Droop-Static-Whole threshold
Number of total ballots: 166
Number of invalid or empty ballots: 5
Number of ballots used in the count: 161
9 candidate running for 5 seats.

 R|Andr|Ryan|Andr|Tim |Jami|Anie|Kees|Step|Alan|Exha|Surp|Thre
  |ew F| Abe|ea G|Samo|e Be|llo | Jon|hen | Bru|uste|lus |shol
  |legg|l (G|rand|ff (|nnet|Del |genb|Gads|ce (|d   |    |d
  | (Ja|ener|i (a|tims|t (b|Sorb|urge|by (|qole|    |    |
  |ffa)|alAn|ndy8|amof|aloo|o (a|r (k|sjga|)   |    |    |
  |    |till|0)  |f)  |)   |nide|eesj|dsby|    |    |    |
  |    |es) |    |    |    |l)  |)   |)   |    |    |    |
===============================================================
 1|  41|  48|   6|  19|   7|   7|  13|   7|  13|   0|  35|  27
  |--------------------------------------------------------------
  | Count of first choices. Candidates Andrew Flegg (Jaffa) and Ryan
Abel (GeneralAntilles) have reached the
  | threshold and are elected. Candidates have surplus votes so surplus
votes will be transferred for the next round.
=======================================================================
 2|  41|  27|   6|  27|   9|   7|  18|  10|  16|   0|  14|  27
  |----------------------------------------------------------------------
  | Count after transferring surplus votes from Ryan Abel
(GeneralAntilles). Candidate Tim Samoff (timsamoff) has
  | reached the threshold and is elected. Candidates have surplus votes
so surplus votes will be transferred for the
  | next round.
=======================================================================
 3|  27|  27|   7|  27|  11|   8|  21|  13|  19|   1|   0|  27
  |----------------------------------------------------------------------
  | Count after transferring surplus votes from Andrew Flegg (Jaffa). No
candidates have surplus votes so candidates
  | will be eliminated and their votes transferred for the next round.
=======================================================================
 4|  27|  27|    |  27|  13|  10|  21|  13|  20|   3|   0|  27
  |----------------------------------------------------------------------
  | Count after eliminating Andrea Grandi (andy80) and transferring
votes. No candidates have surplus votes so
  | candidates will be eliminated and their votes transferred for the
next round.
=======================================================================
 5|  27|  27|    |  27|  14|    |  23|  15|  23|   5|   0|  27
  |----------------------------------------------------------------------
  | Count after eliminating Aniello Del Sorbo (anidel) and transferring
votes. No candidates have surplus votes so
  | candidates will be eliminated and their votes transferred for the
next round.
=======================================================================
 6|  27|  27|    |  27|    |    |  26|  17|  28|   9|   1|  27
  |----------------------------------------------------------------------
  | Count after eliminating Jamie Bennett (baloo) and transferring
votes. Candidate Alan Bruce (qole) has reached the
  | threshold and is elected. Candidates have surplus votes, but since
candiates can be safely eliminated, the
  | transfer of surplus votes will be delayed and candidates will be
eliminated and their votes transferred for the
  | next round.
=======================================================================
 7|  27|  27|    |  27|    |    |  37|    |  28|  15|  11|  27
  |----------------------------------------------------------------------
  | Count after eliminating Stephen Gadsby (sjgadsby) and transferring
votes. Candidate Kees Jongenburger (keesj) has
  | reached the threshold and is elected. The election is over since all
seats are filled.

Winners are Andrew Flegg (Jaffa), Ryan Abel (GeneralAntilles), Tim
Samoff (timsamoff), Kees Jongenburger (keesj), and
Alan Bruce (qole).

Thanks!
Dave.

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