Deputy Gavin St Pier achieved a top-10 finish, placing seventh with 8,577, down on his poll-topping 13,927 from 2020.
New candidates Tom Rylatt and Rhona Humphreys gained 6,689 and 5,630 votes respectfully.
‘I’m absolutely delighted we have three candidates over the line. It would have been lovely to have more but it’s a great place from which to build,’ said Deputy St Pier.
‘Now it’s our responsibility to prove the value of party politics and organised politics, we need to be disciplined and stay together in terms of the manifesto. We need to work with colleagues across the States to help deliver it, and to display the values and conduct and behaviour that I think will be expected of us. I think it will be a higher bar set perhaps for a party than independents.’
First-time candidate Tom Rylatt, 25, a qualified lawyer, is the island’s youngest politician since Peter Roffey joined the States when he was 23 back in 1982.
‘It’s a little bit daunting, I realise how much there is to get done and I hope that I’m able to look back to what I said I’m going to do in terms of giving young people a voice in the Assembly, and work towards policies that will allow them to feel heard, to stay in Guernsey and build their lives,’ he said.
‘What I’m really interested in doing now is building those connections and relationships with the other 37 candidates.’
Mrs Humphreys attended the declaration with her family, and was over the moon when she learnt she had made it across the line.
‘I’m really excited, I thought it was touch and go for a bit, but I’m really excited,’ she said.
‘I just hope we can show that we will work as a team, and that’s what we all said it was all about.
‘We celebrated last night as a team because we thought it wasn’t about the result as much as it was about the campaign.
‘I’m really interested in housing, I’ve said that right the way through, talking about my kids being able to come back to the island and our young people not leaving the island. I’m also really into economic development, but I’m not opposed to anywhere where I think I can add some value.’
Deputy St Pier said that the party would need to determine the best areas for its candidates to sit on to have a better chance of delivering its manifesto.
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