The votes have all been counted and here's what we've learnt

• Poll topper Deputy Lindsay de Sausmarez was "quite stunned" by the result
• Sitting deputies dominated the top of the polls
• First-time candidate Paul Montague was the only non-sitting States member in the top 10
• Twelve sitting deputies have lost their seats
• Eleven women have been elected so the new States will have three more women than the current assembly
• A recount could be called - there is a 24-hour deadline after the declaration
• Click here to see the results in full

Deputy Peter Ferbrache has confirmed he will not be calling for a recount.

He missed out on being elected by 21 votes finishing in 39th place behind Sarah Hansmann Rouxel who finished in 38th place.

As this is less than 50 votes a recount can be called, but former chief minister Deputy Peter Ferbrache - the only candidate eligible to call for one - said he would not be doing so.

Deputy Jonathan Le Tocq said he was "highly likely" to stand for president of Policy and Resources, the top committee in Guernsey's government.

The role, also known as chief minister, will be voted for by the incoming deputies when they are sworn in on 1 July.

Four committee members will be elected to join the chief minister on the committee on the following day.

"I'll do my best to try and work a coalition together of all types of people to hit the ground running," Le Tocq said.

Deputy Aidan Matthews, who finished 13th in the poll, said: "I'm looking forward to getting back into the States and trying to deliver the sort of changes the island needs.

"Clearly housing and population emerged as top issues, those are ones I want the States to get on with as soon as possible and we;'ve got some difficult issues ahead with tax, education and I know about all the issues in healthcare that we need to try to get on top of."

He said he would be keen to sit on Health and Social Care - on which he previously served - and Education, Sport and Culture.

Deputy Tina Bury kept her seat, with the 8th-highest vote - a result she described as "humbling".

She said she felt people had voted for her because she was "quite a normal person" and represented "quite a large demographic of people who aren't always necessarily represented in government".

She said it was "wonderful" to see Deputy Lindsay De Sausmarez top the polls as "she works so hard".

Bury said she would celebrate her result with "a swim".

Deputy-elect David Goy stood on a platform of diversifying the island's economy to rely less on finance.

He said he suspected a lot of his supporters came from younger age groups.

"I think they realised that finance is on its last legs, so there's an urgency for us to diversify beyond finance," the first-time candidate said.

Deputy John Dyke was one of the 12 current deputies who failed to get re-elected.

The member of the Development and Planning Committee and Scrutiny fell short of keeping his seat by less than 500 votes.

He said he was "quite disappointed", but said he would "get a new dog and go on holiday".

Deputy Chris Blin was returned with more than 7,500 votes.He said: "I'm very grateful to everyone who voted and I hope that I can continue to do the best work I can."

Deputy Charles Parkinson plans to stand for president of the Policy and Resources Committee - the top role in the States - again.

He previously stood in a three-way election for the role - selected by the States on the day it is sworn in - in 2016, losing out to Deputy Gavin St Pier who was elected ahead of Deputy Peter Ferbrache.

Parkinson did not stand for the role in 2020 when the other two again went head-to-head with Ferbrache coming out on top on that occasion.

Parkinson, who finished 3rd in the poll, said: "My ambition was to finish in the top five and I'm there so obviously the public have confidence in me and I'll try not to disappoint them."

Deputy Lindsay de Sausmarez topped Guernsey's poll, as the only candidate picked by more than half of the island's voters.

The president of Environment and Infrastructure got 10,721 votes, meaning 54.47% of voters had her on their ballot paper.

She said she was "still quite stunned" by the result and had "absolutely no sense whatsoever" about the scale of the result.

De Sausmarez said she was "really pleased" the number of women had increased to 11, adding: "It's a positive step forward."

She said she would be back at Beau Sejour, where the count took place, in the evening to see a play, but hoped to "pop home for some cake" before hand.

Deputy-Elect Steve Williams, who left his position as chief executive of the Guernsey Housing Association in 2023 after 17 years in the role, said he "would like to be on the Housing Committee".

The committee's creation was agreed by the States in January as currently the work is split across three committees.

The first-time candidate said: "I'm not presumptuous enough to want to be the president, but I would like a good committee around me and if there's no-one else suitable specifically I'm happy to be the head of it."

He finished 21st with 6,915 votes.

The results of the Guernsey General Election 2025 held on 18 June.

The average voter in Guernsey's general election selected 22 candidates.

A total of 19,683 people voted, with each person being able to vote for up to 38 prospective deputies.

There were 432,212 marks put beside candidates' names, meaning that on average people voted for 21.95 candidates each.

Guernsey's only political party putting up candidates at this election had a mixed day, with three of their six candidates elected.

They included the youngest deputy-elect in the next States, Tom Rylatt, 25, who said he was "quite emotional" after a "long two months".

He said representing islanders was a "daunting prospect" but he was "so happy" to have been elected.

Fellow Forward Guernsey member, Deputy-Elect Rhona Humphreys, said she was "looking forward to working for the island for the next four years".

More than half of Guernsey's new deputies live in the parishes of St Peter Port and the Vale, with the rest coming from six of the island's other parishes.

There were no deputies elected who lived in the Forest or St Andrew.

• St Peter Port 11
• Vale 9
• Castel 5
• St Martin 5
• St Sampson 3
• St Saviour 2
• Torteval 1
• St Pierre du Bois 1

Nearly half of Guernsey's new deputies are serving on the States for the first time.

Seventeen of the 38 deputies are new, while three are returning after having lost their seats or standing down at previous elections.

Twelve current deputies who stood at this year's election failed to keep their seats. They were:

• Aldwell, Susan
• De Lisle, David
• Dudley-Owen, Andrea
• Dyke, John
• Fairclough, Simon
• Ferbrache, Peter
• Haskins, Sam
• Le Tissier, Christopher
• Meerveld, Carl
• Moakes, Nick
• Oliver, Victoria
• Prow, Rob

Paul Montague finished as the highest polling new candidate.

The teacher and union representative finished 5th with 8,884 votes.

He said: "I'm really excited about the next two weeks, I know there's a lot of jockeying for positions and obviously the elections of presidents of various committees so I'm going in with my eyes open.

"I'll be cautious, I'll be thoughtful and we'll see what happens."

Deputy-Elect Montague said: "[The Committee for] Education, Sport and Culture is absolutely the right place for me, it's the right fit, not just because of education... that is the committee I would most wish to serve on.

"The other one is HSC [Health and Social Care] because a lot of my concerns are to do with particularly the physical and mental health of young people."

He said: "One of the most important things of this next assembly is to really look at first of all the election - island-wide voting whether we need to look at a more hybrid system, but also how we can get people more engaged in democracy."

The 2025 election was expected by many to be a referendum on the Goods and Service Tax (GST).

While other priorities, such as housing, health and education have also been prominent, the makeup of the new States is broadly anti-GST.

Half of Guernsey's next assembly - 19 in total - told the BBC they were firmly against GST or GST+, a package of tax reforms.

A further eight said they wanted to explore other options before ratifying the last States' decision to introduce the new tax, but would consider GST+ as a last resort.

In November, the States approved working on tax reforms including a 5% GST, lower income tax rates for earnings under £30,000 and social security reform, to start in 2027.

Yes.

That's the short answer. The long answer is one candidate can call for a recount and has 24 hours from the declaration to do so.

Former chief minister Deputy Peter Ferbrache finished in 39th place 21 votes behind Sarah Hansmann Rouxel who finished in 38th place.

As this is less than 50 votes a recount can be called.

The rules say the difference has to be whichever is lowest of 50 or 1% of the 38th candidates' votes which in this case is 54.

No other candidate can call one.

The number of women elected as deputies has increased to 11, three more than the current States.

The new female deputies include Sally Rochester, Jennifer Strachan, Munazza Malik, Jayne Ozanne, Haley Camp and Rhona Humphries.

Former deputy Sarah Hansmann Rouxel has also been returned to the States.