Jerry Dorey was a member of the States of Jersey 1993–2005.

Biography

Jerry Dorey was born in 1951 at Ealing, London. He was educated at

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, gaining an M.A. (Oxon) in French. He took up a career as a freelance computer programmer in

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before being elected to the States of Jersey as Deputy for

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No.1 district in 1993. As a Deputy he was a member of Education, Health, Public Services, Broadcasting, JTA, Employment and Social Security and Establishment Committees; he sat on the Marina Committee of Inquiry, and the

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s Committee of Inquiry. In February 1999 he stood in a Senatorial by-election and was voted in with 3,320 votes (beating

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, Harry Cole and

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). Senator Dorey lost his Senatorial seat at the following general election in October 1999, being edged out in 7th place. The following month he was voted back as Deputy by the voters of St Helier No. 1 with 463 votes. He became vice-president of Environment and Public Services, and in that position argued for a resiting of waste disposal in his St Helier constituency; the loss of his seat in the 2005 elections, he described as a "severe disappointment"

References

*Jersey Evening Post *Election Manifesto *BBC News {{DEFAULTSORT:Dorey, Jerry Living people 1951 births People educated at Victoria College, Jersey People from Saint Helier Deputies of Jersey Senators of Jersey