Gavin St Pier tops the poll as 2020 election results are announced
CURRENT Policy & Resources President Gavin St Pier has topped the 2020 election with 13,925 votes.
He was followed by current Health & Social Care president Heidi Soulsby with 12,782 and western deputy Andrea Dudley-Owen with 12,589.
Newcomer Mark Helyar was the highest scoring newcomer, in fourth place. Current incumbents Peter Ferbrache, John Gollop, Peter Roffey, Neil Inder and Lyndon Trott make up the rest of the top ten, with Torteval constable Sue Aldwell taking the tenth spot.
Former deputy Yvonne Burford has managed to reclaim a place in the States chamber, with more than 9,000 votes.
Carl Meerveld just scraped back in, managing to get the 38th position, with 6,475 votes.
However it was a bad night for a number of sitting deputies and there have been a number of big names who lost their seats. Education President Matt Fallaize managed just 3,445 votes, while Home Affairs President Mary Lowe garnered 5,042 votes. Environment & Infrastructure President Barry Brehaut has also lost his place in the chamber, after only getting 4,530 votes. Development & Planning Authority President Dawn Tindall also had a bad night, with just 2,784 votes.
Jennifer Merrett, Rhian Tooley, Sarah Hansmann Rouxel, Shane Langlois, Mark Dorey, Jeremy Smithies and Jane Stephens also lost their seats.
It was a mixed night for the newly formed political parties. The Guernsey Party of Independents saw ten of its 21 candidates gain seats, and the Guernsey Party got six of its nine candidates in. None of the Alliance Party managed to get seats.
In terms of gender diversity, just eight of the successful candidates were women. This compares with five in 2012 and 12 in 2016.
About half the new house will be made up of sitting deputies, while the rest will be newcomers and former deputies.
This election is the first fully island-wide election, with four days for islanders to cast their votes in person. Despite the extra time, more than 20,000 islanders chose instead to cast postal votes.
In total 24,647 votes were cast, which is 80% of the people on the electoral roll. On average people used 26 of their possible 38 votes.
Counting started at 9am on Thursday morning and continued throughout the day and into the evening. By 8pm two thirds of the votes had been scanned using the two specialist machines.
The final result was announced at about 1.15am.
In the 2016 election the results were announced between 11.30pm and 1am - varying by parish.
