EVE election results in

By Oli Welsh Published 22 May, 2008

UK wins at virtual politics.

EVE Online developer CCP has announced the results of its recent elections for player representatives on the Council of Stellar Management, the first ever democratically elected body in a virtual world.

Although the nine player delegates are of equal rank, we know that winning is important, so we can report that Jade Constantine - a.k.a. the UK's Andrew Cruse - was the most popular, bagging 2436 votes.

Constantine stood on a ticket for supporting the interests of less hardcore players and smaller guilds - proving that in the virtual world, as in the real world, the middle-class silent majority holds the keys to the kingdom.

A close second was Hardin, whose real name is Niall Dologhan, also a Brit. He came a close second with 2393 votes after his campaign focused on player-versus-player battles. War wins elections, after all, as Margaret Thatcher understood all too well.

Both Hardin and Constantine were interviewed in our recent feature on the elections. Vox Pop, a player who promised to poll all other players on every decision, was not elected.

The remainder of the councillors are drawn from the US, Netherlands and Denmark as well as Britain. Two women will sit on the council, an achivement when you consider that only 3 per cent of the game's player base is female. The full results are as follows:

  • Andrew Cruse - Jade Constantine - United Kingdom - 2436
  • Niall Dologhan - Hardin - United Kingdom - 2393
  • Eva Jobse - Ankhesentapemkah - Netherlands - 1551
  • Alexander Kravitz - Bane Glorious - United States - 1536
  • Sean Conover - Darius JOHNSON - United States - 1268
  • Valentijn Geirnaert - Dierdra Vaal - Netherlands - 1059
  • Shayne Smart - Serenity Steele - Netherlands - 965
  • Charlie Eriksen - LaVista Vista- Denmark - 764
  • Alison Wheeler - Inanna Zuni - United Kingdom - 706

Considering EVE has a population of around a quarter of a million players, it's clear that voter apathy was something of a problem. The turn-out was just over 11 per cent - 24,651 votes cast out of a pool of 222,422 eligible voters. Nonetheless, hat's higher than expected, and not bad for an early experiment in virtual democracy. Unsurprisingly, most voters were veteran players of over a year's standing.

The Council will meet in-game on Saturday, with minutes published afterwards on the game's forums, and then convene in real-life on the weekend on 19th June at CCP's headquarters in Iceland.

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Comments (10) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • rob230 #1 4 years ago

    I have no idea what any of this means, but I know it's fucking sad and said person needs to go outside and "throw a frisbee" as is the stereotype.

  • symmetry #2 4 years ago

    The eve of something great, or just a great evening?

  • Bumhug360 #3 4 years ago

    "Nonetheless, hat's higher than expected"

    There were hats? Nobody said there would be hats!

  • Byzanite #4 4 years ago

    that's off to them :p

  • skillian #5 4 years ago

    Eventually everything will even out, even if evenhandedness is not everything to every eve player everywhere.

  • Jade_Constantine #6 4 years ago


    I'm not sure its entirely accurate to describe my platform as "non-hardcore" given I ran the election on a manifesto promoting exploding outposts, dynamic pvp battles and bloody fiscal carnage in 0.0 space conquest.

    Still it is true that I stood for smaller scale corporations and alliances and was opposing the current boring status quo "sim-city-in-space" tendency for alliances on the frontier to build up without attendant risk on their investments.

    Ah well, all in all it was an excellent result and the first time I've ever gotten one of my game characters into a print and paper newspaper (even if it was Icelandic)

    [link url=http:/ /www.mordante.demon.co.uk/evenewsuw2.jpg
    ]http://ww w.mordante.demon.co.uk/evenewsu...[/link]

    All the best!

  • That_Happy_Cat #7 4 years ago

    FREE HAT FREE HAT FREE HAT!

  • Zapatero #8 4 years ago

    Jade, you've been mentioned in EON dozens of times, and that's in English :)

  • rowsdower #9 4 years ago

    Two goons on the council. Excellent. Hilarious that a player who has never left an NPC corp was elected.

    Hey Jade, are you gonna step down as chair and allow the position to be elected via vote as you promised?

    It's interesting that there are only three people on the board with any experience of 0.0 life which, let us be fair, is where the action happens. It's where the actual stuff that gets in the papers occurs. It's where the wars happen, the fleet battles, the scandals, the drama and of course, the lag. 0.0 is the heart of EVE, and yet it is represented by only three players, two of which are in the same corporation. The majority of this council don't know what any of these things are and yet expect to be able to speak with authority on these matters. Their actions will affect everyone in the EVE universe (or so they have been lead to believe) and yet they don't have the experience for it. I personally can't wait to see what abortive plans are created to make sure Veldspar mining is as safe as ever and that the big old meanies from Nullsec don't come and kick over their sandcastles.

    CONCORD in 0.0 anyone? Place your bets now.

  • Jade_Constantine #10 4 years ago


    heh Zapatero, yep thats true, I think it was just seeing the article in traditional black and white newsprint that struck a chord. EON is always like a beautiful coffee-table book so delightfully-presented and stylish it never seems like a real-world newpaper to me :)