Problem: Lack of clarity regarding failed elections

[mochet]

Example election: https://dao.joystream.org/#/election/past-elections/0000000j

This election failed for some reason, but to an end user there is no explanation of why. Based upon QN research this election failed because the requirement for at least 5 council members to get revealed votes did not happen.

At minimum I would suggest the following:

• An easily distinguishable signifier of whether an election failed or succeeded
• If it failed, a human readable reason for why (i.e. "Not enough candidates", "Not enough votes")
• If it isn't possible to provide a distinct reason for failure, ideally a tooltip/popup that explains to the end-user the possible reasons for an election having failed.

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[traumschule]

From what i can see there is no definitive outcome status available via QN.

query { electionRounds { id isFinished endedAtTime
  referendumStageVoting {startedAtBlock} referendumStageRevealing {startedAtBlock}
  candidates { createdAt votesReceived{voterevealedeventcastVote{createdAt}}} castVotes {stakeLocked} }
}

This incomplete query enables to infer the outcome based on

• was there a voting / revealing stage
• how many candidates (consider withdrawn) => at least council size +1
• how many cast votes => at least council size
• how many revealed votes => seems reasonable election would fail not enough votes for min. 5 candidates are revealed
• elected candidates

In the current design the ENDED AT date has a prominent place but poor visibility. I could see combined stats box: failed on MM/DD/YYYY / elected on MM/DD/YYYY with a tooltip:

candidates / withdrawn
votes / revealed