EVE Online's sixth CSM election results are in
The elections for EVE Online's sixth Council of Stellar Management have come to a close, and earlier today the results were revealed to both excited Fanfest attendees in Iceland and players at home. In previous years, the CSM's role was to collect issues players had with the game and bring them to the attention of developers. This role has morphed over time into a more advisory form, with CCP running ideas by the council and using them to help prioritise the development backlog. This year's elections were heavily influenced by political voting from EVE's nullsec alliances. Organised voting secured spots on the council for several big players in territorial warfare, and a few old faces returned for a further term.
Political voting isn't necessarily a bad thing for the CSM, as players who are heavily involved in EVE are still the types of people we want to see on the council. CCP employees can't also be power players in the game, so they miss out on the perspective that alliance leaders and other heavily involved players will have. Participation was huge this year, with a total of 49,069 votes being cast in a two-week period. This represents 14.25% of the total accounts eligible to vote, an increase over last year's 12.67%.
Read on for a full rundown of the elected members of EVE's sixth Council of Stellar Management.
Meet the council
This year, the chairperson role was secured by Goonswarm spymaster The Mittani with a record 5,365 votes. Making it into the CSM as full council members are Seleene, UAxDeath, Trebor Daehdoow, Killer2, White Tree, Vile Rat, Meissa Anunthiel and Draco Llasa. In the event of their absence or inability to continue as part of the CSM, alternate council members Elise Randolph, Prometheus Exenthal, Krutoj, Two Step and Darius III will take over. Below is a summary of this year's CSM members and how many votes they received, along with their campaign information from our CSM roundup.
Council Chairman: 5,365 votes |
Council Member: 3813 votes | |
Council Member: 3320 votes | |
Council Member: 3306 votes | |
Council Member: 2925 votes | |
Council Member: 2539 votes | |
Council Member: 2240 votes | |
Council Member: 2086 votes | |
Council Member: 1968 votes |
Council Alternate: 1747 votes | |
Council Alternate: 1341 votes | |
Council Alternate: 1090 votes | |
Council Alternate: 956 votes | |
Council Alternate: 921 votes |