2022 Jersey general election

2022 Jersey general election

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All 49 seats in the States Assembly
25 seats needed for a majority
Registered60,678[1]
Turnout41.6% (Decrease 1.8 pp)[1][a]
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Sam Mézec Kristina Moore Philip Bailhache
Party Reform Jersey Better Way[b] JLC
Alliance JLC–Progress
Leader's seat St Helier South St Mary, St Ouen, and St Peter St Clement (D)
Last election 5 New New
Seats won
Seat change Increase 5 Increase 3 Increase 2
Popular vote 12,751 8,016 4,259
Percentage 12.3% 7.7% 4.1%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
JA
PP
IND
Leader Mark Boleat Steve Pallett
Party Jersey Alliance Progress Party Independents[c]
Alliance JLC–Progress
Leader's seat St Clement (D) (defeated) St Brelade (D) (defeated)
Last election New New 44
Seats won
Seat change Decrease 8 Decrease 1 Decrease 13
Popular vote 9,479 4,376 61,051
Percentage 9.1% 4.2% 58.9%

A map presenting the results of the election, with each dot representing one seat in the States Assembly. The top map shows the results for connétables, whilst the bottom shows results for deputies.

Chief Minister before election

John Le Fondré
Jersey Alliance

Chief Minister after election

Kristina Moore
Better Way

The 2022 Jersey general election was held on 22 June 2022 to elect connétables and deputies to the States Assembly. As in previous elections, the majority of seats were won by independents. The governing Jersey Alliance party suffered a heavy defeat, losing all but one of its seats. Following the election, a coalition government led by Better Way Deputy Kristina Moore was formed.

Independent politicians won 32 of the 49 seats in the Assembly. Reform Jersey won 10 seats, primarily in the new St Helier constituencies, the largest win in the party's history. Whilst Jersey Alliance won a sizable share of the popular vote, it only won a single seat; almost all of its members in the Assembly were voted out, most notably the incumbent Chief Minister John Le Fondré. The newly founded Jersey Liberal Conservatives and Progress Party, comprising the JLC–Progress coalition, received 2 and 1 seats respectively.

Despite widespread electoral reforms made in 2021 intended to improve civic engagement, turnout decreased from the previous election to 41.6%. Following the election, Jersey Alliance's single member in the Assembly resigned from the party after only a month, leaving it with no representation in the States Assembly. The Progress Party disbanded a year later in July 2023.

  1. ^ a b Stolte, Jake (3 August 2022). "Voter turnout lower than in 2018 election". Jersey Evening Post. Archived from the original on 14 August 2022. Retrieved 25 November 2023.


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