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The Jersey Alliance is a
centre-right Centre-right politics lean to the Right-wing politics, right of the Left–right politics, political spectrum, but are closer to the Centrism, centre. From the 1780s to the 1880s, there was a shift in the Western world of social class structure a ...
party in
Jersey Jersey ( , ; nrf, Jèrri, label=Jèrriais ), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey (french: Bailliage de Jersey, links=no; Jèrriais: ), is an island country and self-governing Crown Dependencies, Crown Dependency near the coast of north-west F ...
, formed in 2021 by
States Assembly The States Assembly (french: Assemblée des États; Jèrriais: ) is the parliament of Jersey, formed of the island's 37 deputies and the Connétable of each of the twelve parishes. The origins of the legislature of Jersey lie in the system o ...
deputy Gregory Guida to compete in the 2022 general election. From the party's founding in 2021 until the 2022 Jersey election, Jersey Alliance led the
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with party member
John Le Fondré John Alexander Nicholas Le Fondré is a Jersey politician who was the fourth Chief Minister of Jersey. He entered the States Assembly in 2005 as deputy for the Parish of St Lawrence, and was re-elected to this position in 2011 and 2014. During h ...
serving as
Chief Minister A chief minister is an elected or appointed head of government of – in most instances – a sub-national entity, for instance an administrative subdivision or federal constituent entity. Examples include a state (and sometimes a union terri ...
. In 2022,
Mark Boleat Sir Mark John Boleat (born January 1949, in Jersey) is leader of the Jersey Alliance political party, and deputy chairman of the City of London Corporation's Policy and Resources Committee. He has previously been director general of the Building So ...
was appointed as the leader of the party and nominated to be the next Chief Minister. As a result of the 2022 general election, the Jersey Alliance party lost a majority of its 9 seats that it had previously held in the
States Assembly The States Assembly (french: Assemblée des États; Jèrriais: ) is the parliament of Jersey, formed of the island's 37 deputies and the Connétable of each of the twelve parishes. The origins of the legislature of Jersey lie in the system o ...
and was reduced to a single seat held by an uncontested Connétable in the parish of
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. Party leader Mark Boleat stood in the district of St Clement and was defeated on election day. Boleat received the least amount of votes of any candidate with 721 votes. John Le Fondré also was defeated on election day, becoming the first Jersey Chief Minister to lose his seat in an election. Less than a month after the General Election, the Party's sole elected member - Constable Philip Le Sueuer - announced that he had resigned from the Party.


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* Political parties in Jersey Political parties established in 2021 {{UK-party-stub