The 4th CSM - results!

Introducing the fourth CSM drumroll

The election results have now been confirmed and we're pleased to announce who the delegates for the fourth CSM are:

Tomas Ljumovic ('ElvenLord') is the Council's chairman, having received the highest number of votes. The first order of business for the Council will be to elect a vice-chairman, secretary and vice-secretary.

The following candidates were placed in seats 10 to 14 by number of votes received and will serve as alternate Council members:

The First Meeting

The first meeting of the Council will be held in EVE next Saturday, the 5^thof December 2009. Though the session is closed to the public, you can follow the progress and discussions on both on the CSM forum section and in EVElopedia where all meeting minutes will be made public.

The Council members will be flown to Iceland the weekend of February 24^th- 28^th 2010 to meet with CCP after having deliberated and prioritized topics raised by players. A full listing of election results may be viewed here.

Demographics and Statistics

The format of the following information is identical to the analysis of the first election,  the second election and the third to allow for an easy comparison.

There were 21,158 votes cast by eligible voters (i.e. older than 30 days and thus able to vote), amassing a turnout of 7.36%. Of the total votes cast, 629 voters (2.97%) chose to abstain.

The gender difference between voters closely follow the gender difference in the subscription base, with male voters being 96.9% and female voters being 3.1% of the total voting population compared to 95.5% versus 4.5% male - female ratio of the player base.

The average age of accounts voting is 2.2 years, meaning that most votes were cast by veteran players - the age consistently going a bit up since the first election where the average age was 1.77 years, second 1.94 and third 2 years.

47.31% of the voting accounts are veterans of two years or more.

The below information reveals 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 region and the subscription percentage based on region.

What is interesting is that several countries show much more interest in the election than others - with the Netherlands, Finland, Belgium, Romania and Ireland being above the other countries.

A loud applause goes out to the candidates that announced their candidacy and participated in the campaign. We wish them the best and remind them that now begins the work of being a CSM delegate.