Congratulations to the winners, and gratitude to all who ran!
Here’s a breakdown of the distribution of approvals:
----------------------------------- 363 approvals Pablo Galindo Salgado 63 17.4% Barry Warsaw 58 16.0% Emily Morehouse 52 14.3% Gregory P. Smith 50 13.8% Donghee Na 48 13.2% Thomas Wouters 38 10.5% Ethan Furman 31 8.5% Mariatta 23 6.3% -----------------------------------
A curiosity is that, despite that there are 5 winners, voters averaged less than 5[1] approvals per ballot.
The distribution of hearts across nomination statements is a very crude form of “block approval” polling. Those being “polled” then are self-selected, not anonymous, and may not even be eligible to vote. Nevertheless, in this specific election, 4 of the winners would have been the same:
----------------------------------- 232 hearts Pablo Galindo Salgado 42 18.1% Barry Warsaw 37 15.9% Donghee Na 29 12.5% Emily Morehouse 28 12.1% Thomas Wouters 26 11.2% Ethan Furman 25 10.8% Gregory P. Smith 25 10.8% Mariatta 20 8.6% -----------------------------------
The most interesting question to me can’t be answered: would some form of “proportional approval” have changed results? That can’t be known without access to the ballots for detailed analysis.