When I had the apartment, it was the same for the "working bee" cleanups. It would be me and a couple others doing the work, while 30-40 people stood around talking about what needed to be done and then having a bbq.
btw, weirdly, the person I voted for actually won in the city by 26 votes. The reason is that it goes on total party votes and a candidate who died a few weeks ago from a small party (they only had him as a representative) picked up 100 or so votes and had registered to give them to the one I voted for. That doesn't happen so often I am guessing.