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The election ended 21 June 2008. No more votes will be accepted.
The results were announced on 26 June 2008.
2008 Board elections
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The 2008 Wikimedia Board Election Committee would like to announce the results of the 2008 Board Elections. The winner is Ting Chen. These results will be certified by the Board of Trustees at their next meeting, where he will be appointed effective 16 July 2008. This position will be effective until July 2009.

In total, 3019 valid ballots were cast; the specific results are as outlined below. A complete dump of the ballots cast is available here.

Pairwise defeats table
A.H. A.B. C.S. D.R. G.K. H.C. J.H. K.W. M.B. P.W. R.S. R.P. S.K. S.S. T.C.
Ad Huikeshoven - 781 934 920 1115 806 832 1022 987 1030 848 901 764 868 674
Alex Bakharev 950 - 1073 1054 1236 984 983 1134 1109 1173 990 1052 932 1028 844
Craig Spurrier 571 537 - 600 845 530 583 721 646 695 578 587 498 577 473
Dan Rosenthal 691 654 721 - 960 660 724 844 780 858 711 707 609 699 595
Gregory Kohs 461 412 491 472 - 471 471 513 523 541 467 468 434 461 411
Harel Cain 896 836 1007 959 1160 - 892 1075 1047 1080 917 964 799 904 731
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen 714 720 850 827 1057 755 - 970 912 943 737 841 712 798 621
Kurt M. Weber 588 535 595 566 787 547 581 - 634 679 588 553 528 573 505
Matthew Bisanz 508 498 552 513 785 509 534 653 - 677 531 473 465 507 472
Paul Williams 439 420 429 471 754 435 464 566 521 - 470 426 410 466 380
Ray Saintonge 714 703 812 789 987 727 745 879 848 899 - 769 641 738 629
Ryan Postlethwaite 772 702 804 741 1027 756 770 880 837 921 797 - 726 755 674
Samuel Klein 924 910 1019 967 1183 911 983 1099 1069 1126 941 980 - 971 836
Steve Smith 729 694 796 734 1007 712 750 876 840 884 778 744 654 - 650
Ting Chen 1135 1086 1263 1248 1421 1108 1151 1344 1306 1354 1182 1245 1044 1190 -
Each figure represents the number of voters who ranked the candidate at the left better than the candidate at the top.

A figure in bold represents a victory in that pairwise comparison by the candidate at the left.

Ranking of candidates
  Number of overall pairwise victories
over other candidates
1. Ting Chen 14
2. Alex Bakharev 13
3. Samuel Klein 12
4. Harel Cain 11
5. Ad Huikeshoven 10
6. Jussi-Ville Heiskanen 8
7. Ryan Postlethwaite 8
8. Steve Smith 7
9. Ray Saintonge 7
10. Dan Rosenthal 5
11. Craig Spurrier 4
12. Matthew Bisanz 3
13. Kurt M. Weber 2
14. Paul Williams 1
15. Gregory Kohs 0
The ranking was determined by the number of pairwise victories against other candidates by each candidate.

Ties in the number of the pairwise victories were automatically resolved by comparing who won in the pairwise comparisons between the tied candidates.