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# Python governance vote (December 2018)

As described in [PEP 8001](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-8001/), the governance election has been completed.

The result is that **[PEP 8016: The Steering Council Model (Smith, Stufft)](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-8016/) has been selected as the winner**.

- - Supervisor: Ernest W. Durbin III <ernest@python.org>

- - Announced end of poll: 2018-12-17T12:00:00Z

- - Actual time poll closed: 2018-12-17T12:00:02Z

- - Authorized voters: 94 ([CPython core developers with a known email-address](https://github.com/python/voters/blob/bb4bceda896c38177e6d9c3c2437f63a5edb23dc/2018-12-01-governance-election.csv))

- - Actual votes cast: 62

- - Number of winning choices: 1

- - [Condorcet completion rule](https://civs.cs.cornell.edu/rp.html): Minimax

## Result

1. **[PEP 8016: The Steering Council Model (Smith, Stufft)](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-8016/)**

- (Condorcet winner: wins contests with all other choices)

2. [PEP 8012: The Community Governance Model (Langa)](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-8012/)

- loses to PEP 8016: The Steering Council Model (Smith, Stufft) by 40–22

3. [PEP 8011: Python Governance Model Lead by Trio of Pythonistas (Wijaya, Warsaw)](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-8011/)

- loses to PEP 8016: The Steering Council Model (Smith, Stufft) by 37–20

- loses to PEP 8012: The Community Governance Model (Langa) by 34–28

4. [PEP 8015: Organization of the Python community (Stinner)](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-8015/)

- loses to PEP 8016: The Steering Council Model (Smith, Stufft)by 41–18

- loses to PEP 8011: Python Governance Model Lead by Trio of Pythonistas (Wijaya, Warsaw) by 33–24

5. [PEP 8014: The Commons Governance Model (Jansen)](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-8014/)

- loses to PEP 8016: The Steering Council Model (Smith, Stufft) by 50–9

- loses to PEP 8015: Organization of the Python community (Stinner) by 38–18

6. [PEP 8010: The Technical Leader Governance Model (Warsaw)](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-8010/)

- loses to PEP 8016: The Steering Council Model (Smith, Stufft) by 44–15

- loses to PEP 8014: The Commons Governance Model (Jansen) by 30–28

7. [PEP 8013: The External Council Governance Model (Dower)](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-8013/)

- loses to PEP 8016: The Steering Council Model (Smith, Stufft) by 55–6

- loses to PEP 8010: The Technical Leader Governance Model (Warsaw) by 38–17

8. Further discussion

- loses to PEP 8016: The Steering Council Model (Smith, Stufft) by 57–4

- loses to PEP 8013: The External Council Governance Model (Dower) by 32–29

### Result details

| | PEP 8016 | PEP 8012 | PEP 8011 | PEP 8015 | PEP 8014 | PEP 8010 | PEP 8013 |Discussion|

|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|

| PEP 8016 | - |40 |37 |41 |50 |44 |55 |57 |

| PEP 8012 |22 | - |34 |33 |40 |40 |48 |48 |

| PEP 8011 |20 |28 | - |33 |42 |42 |52 |51 |

| PEP 8015 |18 |22 |24 | - |38 |36 |47 |48 |

| PEP 8014 | 9 |18 |16 |18 | - |30 |40 |38 |

| PEP 8010 |15 |20 |14 |22 |28 | - |38 |43 |

| PEP 8013 | 6 | 9 | 9 |12 |14 |17 | - |32 |

|Discussion| 4 |14 |10 |13 |23 |18 |29 | - |

### Ballot report

#### Choices

- - 0. PEP 8010: The Technical Leader Governance Model (Warsaw) (changelog)

- - 1. PEP 8011: Python Governance Model Lead by Trio of Pythonistas (Wijaya, Warsaw) (changelog

- - 2. PEP 8012: The Community Governance Model (Langa) (changelog)

- - 3. PEP 8013: The External Council Governance Model (Dower) (changelog)

- - 4. PEP 8014: The Commons Governance Model (Jansen) (changelog)

- - 5. PEP 8015: Organization of the Python community (Stinner) (changelog)

- - 6. PEP 8016: The Steering Council Model (Smith, Stufft) (changelog)

- - 7. Further discussion

#### Ballots in randomized order

|0.|1.|2.|3.|4.|5.|6.|7.|

|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|

|8|5|1|7|4|3|2|6|

|8|3|2|4|6|5|1|7|

|6|1|4|7|5|3|3|8|

|3|2|7|5|4|6|1|8|

|2|1|4|6|8|5|3|7|

|7|2|3|6|4|7|1|5|

|8|8|1|3|2|8|3|4|

|6|1|2|8|4|3|5|7|

|6|1|8|8|8|3|6|7|

|6|1|2|7|4|3|5|8|

|1|2|6|5|7|4|3|8|

|1|5|7|6|3|8|2|4|

|2|1|5|8|8|8|6|7|

|4|4|3|2|4|4|4|1|

|2|1|6|8|5|7|4|3|

|4|3|8|7|6|1|2|5|

|8|3|4|8|8|4|1|7|

|2|1|8|6|4|7|3|5|

|3|7|1|8|5|4|2|6|

|6|4|3|7|2|5|1|8|

|8|4|3|6|7|1|2|5|

|8|4|1|8|8|3|2|5|

|2|5|1|6|7|4|3|8|

|6|5|1|8|4|3|2|7|

|8|3|2|7|4|5|1|6|

|1|4|2|7|8|3|5|6|

|7|1|6|7|1|6|1|8|

|4|5|3|6|6|2|1|8|

|1|2|7|8|6|4|3|5|

|7|6|3|5|4|2|1|8|

|7|2|4|6|3|5|1|8|

|8|1|4|6|5|3|2|7|

|4|2|4|4|3|2|1|8|

|5|4|3|7|6|1|2|8|

|5|2|1|7|3|4|2|8|

|6|1|4|7|5|2|3|8|

|1|5|3|2|4|8|6|7|

|5|2|4|8|7|6|1|3|

|7|3|2|4|1|6|5|8|

|5|5|4|7|4|4|3|8|

|1|2|7|8|5|3|6|4|

|8|4|2|8|1|2|3|8|

|5|4|3|7|6|1|2|8|

|3|2|8|8|8|4|1|7|

|8|4|1|7|6|2|3|5|

|7|1|5|8|3|6|2|4|

|5|4|3|6|7|2|1|8|

|3|2|4|7|6|5|1|8|

|3|6|5|8|7|2|1|4|

|1|5|4|8|7|2|3|6|

|6|5|1|7|4|2|3|8|

|8|6|1|4|7|2|3|5|

|1|2|8|4|7|6|5|3|

|6|6|5|3|4|1|2|8|

|1|1|6|7|6|6|1|8|

|8|8|1|8|8|8|2|3|

|8|5|2|6|6|2|1|4|

|8|7|2|4|6|3|1|5|

|3|4|2|5|1|6|7|8|

|1|8|1|1|8|8|8|8|

|3|1|8|8|5|8|2|4|

|8|7|1|5|2|3|4|6|

#### Rank 1: PEP 8016: The Steering Council Model (Smith, Stufft) (6)

- - vs. 1 : (20 - 37)

- - vs. 2 : (22 - 40)

- - vs. 5 : (18 - 41)

- - vs. 0 : (15 - 44)

- - vs. 4 : (9 - 50)

- - vs. 3 : (6 - 55)

- - vs. 7 : (4 - 57)

#### Rank 2: PEP 8012: The Community Governance Model (Langa) (2):

- - vs. 1 : (28 - 34)

- - vs. 5 : (22 - 33)

- - vs. 0 : (20 - 40)

- - vs. 4 : (18 - 40)

- - vs. 7 : (14 - 48)

- - vs. 3 : (9 - 48)

#### Rank 3: PEP 8011: Python Governance Model Lead by Trio of Pythonistas (Wijaya, Warsaw) (1):

- - vs. 5 : (24 - 33)

- - vs. 4 : (16 - 42)

- - vs. 0 : (14 - 42)

- - vs. 7 : (10 - 51)

- - vs. 3 : (9 - 52)

#### Rank 4: PEP 8015: Organization of the Python community (Stinner) (5):

- - vs. 0 : (22 - 36)

- - vs. 4 : (18 - 38)

- - vs. 3 : (12 - 47)

- - vs. 7 : (13 - 48)

#### Rank 5: PEP 8014: The Commons Governance Model (Jansen) (4):

- - vs. 0 : (28 - 30)

- - vs. 7 : (23 - 38)

- - vs. 3 : (14 - 40)

#### Rank 6: PEP 8010: The Technical Leader Governance Model (Warsaw) (0):

- - vs. 3 : (17 - 38)

- - vs. 7 : (18 - 43)

#### Rank 7: PEP 8013: The External Council Governance Model (Dower) (3):

- - vs. 7 : (29 - 32)

#### Rank 8: Further discussion (7):

- - vs. 3 : (32 - 29)

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