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