The 2008 Guernsey general election was held on 23 April 2008 to elect 45 members of the
States of Guernsey
The States of Guernsey (french: États de Guernesey), sometimes referred to as the Government of Guernsey, is the parliament and government of the British Crown dependency of Guernsey. Some laws and ordinances approved by the States of Guern ...
. 18,576 voters or 40.58% of the eligible population of 45,772 turned out and cast a total of 89,239 votes; there were 10 blank papers, 35 spoilt papers and on average 4.8 votes were cast. Of the 28 standing deputies all but two (
Brian de Jersey and
Wendy Morgan), were re-elected to the house; this means that 19 of the Deputies-Elect are new to the chamber. Five of the 12 candidates who had stood unsuccessfully in 2004 were elected in 2008.
The candidate who polled the most votes was first time candidate
Matt Fallaize standing in
the Vale, who received 2,322 and became the youngest member of the house at 26.
Election Ordinance
On 1 May,
Lyndon Trott
Lyndon Trott (born 17 July 1964, St. Sampson, Guernsey) is an elected Deputy in the States of Guernsey and served as the Chief Minister of Guernsey from 2008 to 2012.
Political appointments
Deputy Trott has been a deputy in the States of Guer ...
was elected as
Chief Minister of Guernsey
The Chief Minister of Guernsey chaired the Policy Council, which consists of the heads of each of the ten departments of the States of Guernsey. Guernsey operates a system of consensus, committees-based government. The Policy Council is explic ...
by the newly elected deputies, with Bernard Flouquet as Deputy Chief Minister.
Results
Election results
Castel
South East
St Peter Port North
St Peter Port South
St Sampson
Vale
West
See also
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Politics of Guernsey
Politics of Guernsey take place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic British Crown dependency.
Guernsey has an unwritten constitution arising from the Treaty of Paris (1259). When Henry III and the King of France came to t ...
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Elections in Guernsey
Guernsey elects a legislature at the national level. The islands of Alderney and Sark also elect their own parliaments.
Guernsey
The Guernsey legislature, the States of Deliberation, consists of 38 elected members (known as Deputies) and two rep ...
References
External links
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Guernsey
Guernsey (; Guernésiais: ''Guernési''; french: Guernesey) is an island in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy that is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown Dependency.
It is the second largest of the Channel Islands ...
Elections in Guernsey
General election
A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ...
April 2008 events in Europe