Seattle Worldcon 2025’s consultative vote drew just a quarter the number of participants who turned out for Glasgow 2024’s inaugural consultative vote last year. Glasgow tallied 1260 ballots, Seattle only 343.
Seattle ran votes on two of the Constitutional amendments that received first passage at the Glasgow 2024 Business Meeting and are up for ratification – (1) the revisions to the Hugo Award categories for Best Professional Artist and Best Fan Artist, and (2) proposal to abolish the Retro Hugo Awards.
VOTING RESULTS. The results of Seattle’s poll are:
In the vote to amend the constitution so as to eliminate the Retro Hugo Awards:
Yes: 164
No: 167
Total: 331
In the vote to amend the Hugo Award categories for Best Fan and Professional Artist:
Yes: 124
No: 160
Total: 284
These consultative votes are not provided for in the WSFS Constitution, are not binding, and have no effect other than that the information will be known to those at the Business Meeting. The Seattle committee said, “The purpose of the consultative vote was to test whether this type of vote is feasible, in case the practice is someday adopted as a formal part of the WSFS decision-making process.”
