There has been some discussion recently about elections in Fedora and that gave me the desire to have a look at the history of our elections with regards to the number of participants.

I went back up to about 2008 and here are the results:

        Board   FESCo   FamSCo
			
2008-07   250    150	
2008-12   227    169      126
2009-06   297    308	
2009-12   225    216      130
2010-05   229    180	
2010-11   239    240      125
2011-06   204    200	
2011-12   224    225      104
2012-06   199    236      207
2012-12   201    206      102
2013-06   157    166      175

While I was digging the archives (I have the email announcement for each of these numbers), I also ran into the Fedora release name election results, so here are the evolution of the number of participants:

Release Ballots	
F9	62
F10	390
F11	310
F12	393
F13	313
F14	206
F15	296
F16	421
F17	292
F18	429
F19	391
F20	361