🔎 Observations

In the first round of NDC voting, 854 users cast their votes for 139 candidates. The total number of votes amounted to 16,306.
In a single transaction, a user can vote for multiple candidates (except for the Budget Package), provided that those candidates belong to the same house, such as the candidates for the House of Merit.

The number of votes and voters increased significantly in the final days of the voting period, while there was no noticeable change in the preceding days.

Approximately 45.5% of the votes (7,410 votes) were allocated to the House of Merit, while only around 4.5% of the votes were related to the Budget Package. The reason for the Budget Package receiving fewer votes is that users participating in the Budget Package voting can only choose one of the options: Yes, No, or Abstain, unlike other Houses where they can cast multiple votes in one transaction. Also, voters have been active in the Houses almost equally (House of Merit: 826 voters, Council Of Advisors: 809 voters, Transparency Commission: 803 voters, and, Budget package 722 voters).

Approximately 44%(61 candidates) of the users have been candidates for the House of Merit, and the Council Of Advisors and Transparency Commission share a nearly equal number of candidates (40 candidates versus 38 candidates).

Furthermore, 198 users have posted a total of 461 comments on the profiles of candidates. Approximately 50% of these comments were posted on the profiles of candidates for the House of Merit.

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