2020 Guernsey general election

2020 Guernsey general election
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38 of the 40 seats in the States of Guernsey
Registered30,899[1]
Turnout79.70% (Increase 7.79 pp)[2][3]
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader N/A Gavin St Pier Mark Helyar
Party Independents GPI Guernsey Party
Seats won 22 10 6
Seat change Decrease16 New New
Popular vote 399,155 153,119 63,844
Percentage 62.6% 24.0% 10.0%
Swing Decrease37.4pp New New
President of the Policy and Resources Committee before election

Gavin St Pier
Guernsey Partnership of Independents

President of the Policy and Resources Committee after election

Peter Ferbrache
Independent

The 2020 Guernsey general election took place on 7 October 2020 to elect 38 members of the States of Guernsey. Originally scheduled to be held in June 2020, it was delayed a year to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic before being brought forward to its final date.[4][5][6]

This election was the first on the island to include political parties, as the first ones were organised and registered in 2020. The parties were partly created to help candidates cope with the 2020 change to an Island-wide voting system, it being considered difficult and expensive for one candidate to reach out to the 30,000 electors, with those holding similar views being able to produce a joint manifesto for a party. It was equally difficult for electors to read 119 individual candidates' manifestos. A candidate needing around 7,000 votes to get elected in 2020 compared to as few as 700 under the previous district system.

On 16 October 2020, Peter Ferbrache was elected president of the Policy and Resources Committee by a vote of 23–17, ahead of incumbent Gavin St Pier.[7]

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  7. ^ "Peter Ferbrache elected as P&R president". BBC News. 16 October 2020. Archived from the original on 16 October 2020. Retrieved 16 October 2020.