Results for the second Nix Steering Committee election 2025

Wanted to check out the ballots myself, but they were encoded with a number for each candidate, which made them pretty hard to read. I did some horrible vim substitutions, and turned it into something I could actually read (accessible for your convenience here).

I found the stats on people’s first/last choices to be interesting. This is the first-choice rankings:

❯ cat BALLOTS-WITH-NAMES.txt | cut -f1 -d' '  | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r
     99 k900
     40 cafkafk
     39 tomberek
     26 samueldr
     25 julien
     25 gaeten
     20 nyabinary
     19 pluiedev
     19 philip
     16 niklaskorz
     16 drupol
     15 crertel
     15 aanderse
     12 pinpox
     12 leona
     11 rhendric
      8 mschwaig
      8 djacu
      4 nim
      4 getchoo
      4 adamcstephens
      3 tomodachi
      2 jope
      1 scrumplex

And this is the last-choice ranking:

❯ cat BALLOTS-WITH-NAMES.txt | cut -f24 -d' '  | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r
    159 tomberek
     53 crertel
     41 nyabinary
     30 cafkafk
     17 samueldr
     17 djacu
     16 k900
     14 drupol
     13 tomodachi
      8 nim
      8 julien
      8 jope
      7 gaeten
      6 pinpox
      6 philip
      6 leona
      6 adamcstephens
      5 scrumplex
      5 aanderse
      4 rhendric
      4 niklaskorz
      4 mschwaig
      3 pluiedev
      3 getchoo

You can also see in the data where voting guides had an influence:


Although this is a relatively small portion of the full vote, it’s still interesting.

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