The winners.
fire_of_avalon (#eoff, General Chat) - Retains position in 'government' after winning "General Chat/Eyes on Each Other/World Events" last year.
Behold The Void (Unne Avatar, Eyes on Each Other)
DMKA (BAoTW, Eyes on the World / World Events)
Kirobaito (#eoff, The Lounge) - Retains position in 'government' after winning "Lounge/General Gaming/Arts and Writing" last year.
Endless (#eoff, General Gaming)
Miriel (Fluffy Pink Party, Art & Writing)
Loony BoB (#eoff, Site Staff) - Retains position in 'government' after winning "Forum Leader" last year.
o_O (Ace, Help Forum)
Del Murder (Elitist, Feedback Forum)
Psychotic (BAoTW, General Archive)
Dr Unne (Unne Avatar, FFI-IV)
Shivablizzard8 (Ace, FFV)
Strider (Fluffy Pink Party, FFVI)
Sepho (Ace, FFVII)
Fuzakeru (BAoTW, FFVII:DoC)
Destai (Ace, FFVII:AC)
Silmaril (Ace, FFVIII)
boris no no (Fluffy Pink Party, FFIX)
Czech. Republic (BAoTW, FFX)
Xander (BAoTW, FFX-2) - Retains position in 'government' after winning "Site Staff/Help/Feedback" last year.
Citizen Bleys (Unne Avatar, FFXI)
Sephiroth1999AD (Ace, FFXII)
Misfit (BAoTW, FFT)
Heath (#eoff, FFTA)
Chris (#eoff, FF:CC)
Flamethrower (Ace, General FF)
Chibi Youkai (#eoff, VG Music / TSW)
MecaKane (#eoff, Chrono Cross / Chrono Trigger)
Ansem (BAoTW, Kingdom Hearts)
Quina (Fluffy Pink Party, General Square Enix)
Four leaders made it into the 'government' - Loony BoB, Psychotic, boris no no and Del Murder.
With 8/30 forums, #eoff may have most forums but they don't hold majority. They would need seven non-#eoff forum leaders to get a definite majority vote. However, with other #eoffers DMKA, o_O, Psychotic, Strider, Sepho and Sephiroth1999AD they can at least do whatever it takes to encourage chat activity. Knowing most other forum representatives also strongly support Newbie Rights, #eoff is in a strong position to reach their goals. Sadly, not one of the former Goomba Party runners made it to the final 30, however I will ensure that their voice is heard - by me! And then they'll achieve their goal, too. Once I finish this post or something.
Two Administrators (Dr Unne and myself) and two cid's Knights (Xander and Del Murder) won their respective forums, along with two Site Staffers (Strider and Heath). Not to be left out, former Forums Staff also made the list in the form of Citizen Bleys (former Admin) and Endless (former Cid's Knight). People of all sorts of ranks, ages, forum-ages, countries and backgrounds managed to get into the final 30 representatives and this is a great reflection of where EoFF stands today.
I'm particularly proud of the #eoff party as we never were lower than 4th (and that was a tight one, too, not to mention the runner had also assisted in another forum, thus taking on a double-workload). Everyone did me really, really proud. Thanks to all the newbies and #eoffers - and anyone else, too - who voted for me and for the #eoff party. I'm not sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if this is first time in EoFF Election history that the same party (despite going under a different name) has won twice in a row. Not only did we win most forums, but those forums included a broad range - General Chat, The Lounge, General Gaming, Site Staff, FFTA, FF:CC, Video Game Music / TSW and CC/CT. All well deserved.
Congratulations also to the other winners and to anyone who got a vote, including no candidate, who beat my tally by one vote (68 votes over my 67) if I count correctly...
Parties by votes
BAoTW - 902 votes
#eoff - 887 votes (+1 write-in vote for RSL in General SE).
Ace - 601 votes
Fluffy Pink - 369 votes
Unne Avatar - 267 votes
Elitist - 103 votes
Anti-EoFF - 90 votes
Fabio - 49 votes
Just like America.
Everybody won, though, because #eoff won, and I for one know that's definitely better for everybody!