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2022 Jersey general election
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All 49 seats in the States Assembly
25 seats needed for a majority
Registered60,678[1]
Turnout41.6% (Decrease 1.8 pp)[1][a]
  First party Second party Third party
 
IND
REF
Leader – Sam Mézec Kristina Moore
Party Independents[b] Reform Jersey Better Way[c]
Leader's seat – St Helier South St Mary, St Ouen, and St Peter
Last election 44 5 New
Seats won 32 10 4
Seat change Decrease 12 Increase 5 New
Popular vote 61,051 12,751 8,016
Percentage 58.9% 12.3% 7.7%
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
JA
PP
Leader Philip Bailhache John Le Fondré Steve Pallett
Party JLC Jersey Alliance Progress Party
Alliance JLC–Progress JLC–Progress
Leader's seat St Clement (D) St John, St Lawrence, and Trinity (defeated) St Brelade (D) (defeated)
Last election New New New
Seats won 2 1 1
Seat change New New New
Popular vote 4,259 9,479 4,376
Percentage 4.1% 9.1% 4.2%
Chief Minister before election

John Le Fondré
Jersey Alliance

Chief Minister after election

Kristina Moore
Better Way

The 2022 Jersey general election was held on 22 June 2022 to elect Connétables and deputies to the States Assembly. As in previous elections, the majority of seats were won by independents. The governing Jersey Alliance party suffered a heavy defeat, losing all but one of its seats. Following the election, a coalition government led by Better Way Deputy Kristina Moore was formed.

Independent politicians won 32 of the 49 seats in the Assembly. Reform Jersey won 10 seats, primarily in the new St Helier constituencies, the largest win in the party's history. Whilst Jersey Alliance won a sizable share of the popular vote, it only won a single seat; almost all of its members in the Assembly were voted out, most notably the incumbent Chief Minister John Le Fondré. The newly founded Jersey Liberal Conservatives and Progress Party, forming the JLC–Progress Coalition, received 2 and 1 seats respectively.

Despite widespread electoral reforms made in 2021 intended to improve civic engagement, turnout decreased from the previous election to 41.6%. Following the election, Jersey Alliance's single member in the Assembly resigned from the party after only a month, leaving it with no representation in the States Assembly. The Progress Party disbanded a year later in July 2023.

Timeline

In March 2021, it was announced the election could be held in June, rather than as regular in May, to minimise the impact of the four bank holidays which would fall during the election campaign period otherwise.[2]

The election purdah period began on 10 May 2022, limiting the activities of the Council of Ministers to business as usual activities.[3]

Electoral system

See also: States Assembly § Composition

The 2022 elections are the first to have been held under a new electoral system. Under the system, the role of Senators is abolished and replaced with 37 Deputies elected across 9 districts via plurality block voting. The election of one Connétable from each of the twelve parishes is maintained.[4][5]

This election has seen the debut of many new political parties to a political landscape that has been traditional dominated by independent candidates. Before the election the newly formed centre-right Jersey Alliance, which included the previous Chief Minister John Le Fondré, had led the previous Government of Jersey. The centre-right Liberal Conservatives and the centrist Progress Party entered into a political pact with one other for the election.[6] The existing social-democratic Reform Jersey party will also contest the election, and a group of independent candidates will stand with a shared platform and agreed principles under the name of ‘Better Way’, including Chief Scrutineer and Senator Kristina Moore.[7]

For the 2022 elections, the Constable of St. Martin brought forward an amendment to include "the choice of ‘None of the Above’ to be automatically included as a ballot option in any States Assembly election where the number of candidates in a District or Parish does not exceed the number of seats available, with an appropriate formal consequence being provided should this ballot option achieve a plurality of the votes cast."[8] The change was subsequently approved by the States Assembly.[9]

Political parties and groups

See also: Political parties in Jersey

The table below lists the parties or groups that nominated at least one candidate for the election:

Name Ideology Leader 2018 result Pre-election seats
Seats
RJ Reform Jersey Social democracy Sam Mézec
5 / 49
5 / 49
[d]
JA Jersey Alliance Conservative liberalism Mark Boleat —
9 / 49
PP Progress Party[e] Centrism Steve Pallett —
2 / 49
JLC Jersey Liberal Conservatives[f] Liberal conservatism Philip Bailhache —
0 / 49
BW Better Way[c] Consensus government Kristina Moore —
1 / 49
Ind Independents — —
44 / 49
33 / 49

Notes

As the electorate can vote for more than one candidate, including voting for multiple candidates of differing political parties, the vote total is not indicative of the popular vote share of each party but rather the total number of votes each candidate received.

The 'Better Way' group ran as independents and are not a registered political party nor stood as a political party. Their candidates received 8,016 votes and 4 out of 5 of their candidates were elected.

Results

By constituency

Main article: Results of the 2022 Jersey general election

By party

Party Leader Seats Votes
Of total Of total
Independents – 32 65.3%
32 / 49
 61,051 58.9%
Reform Jersey Sam Mézec 10 20.4%
10 / 49
 12,751 12.3%
Better Way[c] Kristina Moore 4 8.2%
4 / 49
 8,016 7.7%
Jersey Liberal Conservatives Philip Bailhache 2 4.1%
2 / 49
 4,259 4.1%
Jersey Alliance John Le Fondré 1 2.0%
1 / 49
 9,479 9.1%
Progress Party Steve Pallett 1 2.0%
1 / 49
 4,376 4.2%

List of elected members

Connétables

Parish Name Party Majority
Grouville Mark Labey Independent 72
St Brelade Mike Jackson Independent 1,451
St Clement Marcus Troy Independent 1,748
St Helier
Simon Crowcroft 		Independent 944
St John Andy Jehan Independent 1,036
St Lawrence Deidre Mezbourian Independent 301
St Martin Karen Shenton-Stone Independent 1,057
St Mary David Johnson Independent 83
St Ouen Richard Honeycombe Independent 512
St Peter Richard Vibert Independent 872
St Saviour
Kevin Lewis 		Independent 396
Trinity Philip Le Suer Jersey Alliance 441
Source:[10]

Deputies

Constituency Name Party Majority
St Helier South Sam Mézec Reform Jersey 364
Tom Coles Reform Jersey 122
Beatriz Porée Reform Jersey 88
David Warr Better Way[c] 25
St Helier Central Carina Alves Reform Jersey 437
Robert Ward Reform Jersey 413
Lyndsay Feltham Reform Jersey 343
Catherine Curtis Reform Jersey 323

Geoff Southern 		Reform Jersey 210
St Helier North Inna Gardiner Independent 928
Mary Le Hegarat Independent 531
Max Andrews Independent 399
Steve Ahier Independent 262
St Saviour Tom Binet Independent 595
Malcom Ferey Jersey Liberal Conservatives 374
Louise Doublet Independent 326
Raluca Kovacs Reform Jersey 86

Philip Ozouf 		Independent 54
St Clement Alex Curtis Better Way[c] 556
Barbara Ward Independent 486

Philip Bailhache 		Jersey Liberal Conservatives 322
Karen Wilson Independent 50
St Brelade Helen Miles Independent 1,042
Moz Scott Independent 455
Johnathan Renouf Independent 454

Montfort Tadier 		Reform Jersey 175
St Mary, St Ouen, and St Peter Kristina Moore Better Way[c] 1,677
Lucy Stephenson Better Way[c] 1,186

Ian Gorst 		Independent 1,155

Lyndon Farnham 		Independent 48
St John, St Lawrence, and St John Kirsten Morel Independent 1,522
Hilary Jeune Independent 1,435
Elaine Millar Independent 1,075
Andy Howell Independent 556
Grouville and St Martin
Carolyn Labey 		Independent 674
Steve Luce Progress Party 309
Rose Binet Independent 174
Source:[10]

Notes

  1. ^ Based on results for deputies.
  2. ^ Not including Better Way.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Better Way is a group of independent politicians who pledge to work together, and is not registered as a political party.
  4. ^ Trevor Pointon announced that he would stand for election as a Reform Jersey candidate, though continued to stand in the States Assembly as an independent until the election.
  5. ^ In an electoral pact with the Liberal Conservatives
  6. ^ In an electoral pact with the Progress Party

References

  1. ^ a b Stolte, Jake (3 August 2022). "Voter turnout lower than in 2018 election". Jersey Evening Post. Archived from the original on 14 August 2022. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
  2. ^ "Election to be postponed until June next year?". Jersey Evening Post. 2021-03-10. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
  3. ^ Jersey, States of. "Government of Jersey". gov.je. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
  4. ^ Morris, Michael. "Electoral reforms approved after decades of debate". jerseyeveningpost.com. Retrieved 2021-04-22.
  5. ^ "Senator role disappears in major reform of States Assembly electoral system". ITV Channel Television. 2020-12-04. Retrieved 2021-03-16.
  6. ^ Express, Bailiwick. ""And I agree with Steve..." Progress Party and JLC form coalition". Bailiwick Express. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
  7. ^ "New 'Better Way' political coalition is formed". Jersey Evening Post. 2022-03-21. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
  8. ^ "COMPOSITION AND ELECTION OF THE STATES: PROPOSED CHANGES(P.139/2020) – THIRD AMENDMENT" (PDF). States Assembly. 2020-11-12.
  9. ^ "Islanders to be able to vote for 'none of the above'". www.bailiwickexpress.com/. 2021-07-21. Retrieved 2021-07-21.
  10. ^ a b "'22 Election Results". vote.je. States Greffe. 10 August 2022. Archived from the original on 2 June 2023. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
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