2016 Drupal Association at-large election winner announced

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Everyone on the staff and Board of the Drupal Association would like to congratulate our newest board member:

In addition to congratulating Shyamala, please join me in thanking the 22 other candidates who put themselves out there in service of Drupal and volunteered for election. It's brave and generous to nominate yourself for this work, and we should all be very grateful that our community has so many people willing to contribute this way.

This was the fifth election we've held for at-large board seats at the Drupal Association. This year, we had two specific goals for the elections:

More candidate diversity - We had four female candidates this year, representing 17% of the field. This was a big improvement over last year, when there was one female candidate. We also had 23 candidates, from 12 different countries—including South American and Asian countries.
Increase voter turnout - This year, 2,126 of you voted in our election. Our pool of eligible voters was 135,747, so that means our voter turnout was 1.56%. This is still low, but a vast improvement over the last election, which saw a .89% turnout.

Our next steps will be to reach out to the candidates for their evaluation of the elections experience. We also want to hear from you. Please tell us about your experience with the elections process in the comments below so that we can include them in our planning for the 2017 elections.

And finally, you may recall that after some public conversation last year we also changed our self-nomination process in 2016 to ask candidates to opt-in for sharing their election voting data. We use IRV voting and are glad to share that data with you. We've redacted the names of candidates who did not opt-in to share their voting data, though vote counts are still represented.

Voting Results

Counting votes using Instant Runoff Voting. There were 23 candidates competing for 1 seats. The number of voters was 2,126 and there were 2,126 valid votes.

The bar charts below show the vote counts for each candidate in each round. Place the mouse over a bar to see the number of votes.

Yellow — Votes carried over from the previous round.
Green — Votes received in this round.
Red — Votes transferred away in this round.

A candidate's votes in a round is the sum of the yellow and green bars. Since the green and red bars represent votes being transferred, the sum of the green and red bars is the same.

The exhausted bar represents votes where the voter did not indicate a next preference and thus there were no candidates to transfer the vote to. The threshold bar (where shown) indicates the number of votes that ensures that a candidate will win a seat.

Round 1

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Count of first choices.