Gavin St Pier tops poll with the support of 56% of voters
Three committee presidents lost their seats
Number of women in assembly to fall by a third
Every parish will have a representative in the new States
More than half a million votes cast
Record turnout of almost 80%
Six candidates able to call for a recount
Recount called by four candidates
- No major changes following recount
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Many election hopefuls are waiting in Beau Sejour to hear the results as they are called, expected in the next 15 minutes.
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Now the votes are all tallied the declaration of results is expected to take place at 01:15, 16 hours after the first ballots were counted.
The count has finished and the final verification and checks are taking place.
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Candidates have begun to gather in numbers at Beau Sejour in anticipation for the declaration of results.
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Some postal votes have been damaged, but they will still be counted as volunteers are transposing them onto fresh ballots, according to election officials.
The people transcribing the ballots are working in pairs to ensure they are accurately moving the votes across before they are submitted for scanning.
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A recount can be requested by an unsuccessful candidate who finishes within a 2% margin of successful candidates.
So if 25,000 of the 31,301 people on the electoral roll vote the margin will be 500 votes.
Continuing our example if there are less than 500 votes between 38th place and any of the candidates finishing in 39th place or lower, then those candidates have the option of asking for the recount.
This was the same system as was used for the parish and district elections.
It's likely the margin will be large enough to affect some candidates, so we'll have to wait and see if those who end up just outside the 38th position want to call one.
It's expected to be quicker than the initial count and one thing is clear - there will only be one recount.
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About two thirds of the ballot papers have been checked through the scanners, according to election officials.
The result is still unlikely to be before midnight, but it might be sooner than the 01:00 suggested earlier.
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Deputy Emilie McSwiggan, who decided to stand down before the election, said she had enjoyed returning to be an "engaged and informed" voter in the political process.
However, she said it had been "very challenging process" to keep across the issues for everyone with so many candidates to choose from.
Mrs McSwiggan said: "The amount of information out there that everybody has had to try to get their heads around and try and make sensible choices from is just incredible."
She said the "civic spirit" been stirred up by the election was particular impressive, with islanders attempting to help each other sift through the 119 candidates via questionnaires, hustings, podcasts and other methods.
"Everybody has tried to find a different approach to try and make this election as accessible as it possibly can be," she added.
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Political analysis Adrian Lee loves digging out an obscure fact or two.
He says the island's record for spoilt ballots is 3%, which was set in the 2000 election in St Peter Port - as a single parish before it was spilt in two under the district system.
At that election voters had 20 votes for the 20 available seats.
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Deputy Peter Roffey has compared this new electoral system and style of campaigning to waiting for a child to be born.
He said: "It's like an elephant waiting for a baby to be born."
"Normally you get a fairly good idea when you campaign in a parish or a district and you knock on doors.
"You know how well you're going to do, I have absolutely no idea whether I'm going to be 15th or 50th."
Deputy Roffey said he had also campaigned online and via email with islanders and the media.
On the 77 questions sent to candidates for the election website, he admitted to having answered them in around 90 minutes "late at night after two or three glasses of wine".
Deputy Roffey admitted he had a "sweaty palm moment" when the answers were posted online, but that he thought his answers had turned out alright.
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Jane and Phil Le Ber, who are both standing for the Alliance Party, said they did not feel like they were contending with each other in this election.
Mrs Le Ber said: "We are not in competition with each other at all, I'd say we work together.
"And that's how the party ethos is as well, but as a married couple we are headed towards the same direction.
Mr Le Ber confirmed they had campaigned together at hustings and other election events, which meant they had often needed to eat a takeaway after long evenings.
He said: "The dog's useless, he doesn't make dinner when we get in or anything."
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The estimated time for the declaration of the results has been pushed back to 01:00, according to central returning officer Gordon Snell.
Mr Snell confirmed nearly 12,000 ballots had gone through the electronic scanners, around half of the estimated total.
He explained the delay from the original time of about 22:00 had been caused by "considerable more return than we were expecting", as well as allowing people to return their postal ballots to polling stations until the last day of voting.
Mr Snell said they were expecting more than 19,000 postal ballots out of 21,000 had been returned and a higher than 50% turnout for in-person voting.
This would lead to a turnout of about 24,000 out of 31,000 registered voters, 76% of the electorate, Mr Snell added.
"It will be one of the highest turnouts for an island election," he said.
The last election was a record with a 72.5% turnout.
Gordon Snell answers a query during the count
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Adrian Gabriel described the campaign as "tiring but engaging and really interesting", despite the challenges of contacting as many islanders as possible.
On engaging with prospective voters online, Mr Gabriel said he had used a variety of different methods from email to social media.
"There's been some really good engagement from the electorate, really probing questions."
Mr Gabriel said he would return home from his day job to multiple emails and messages from islanders with a variety of questions and he had made it his policy to reply to them all.
Listen live to BBC Radio Guernsey's election special.
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One of the lead deputies behind the pause and review on secondary education has admitted he only supported it to block the two-school model.
Education has been one of the big issues in the run-up to this year's election.
Deputy Carl Meerveld criticised the ongoing education review and said a three-school model was "the only practical one".
Asked why he supported the pause and review, Mr Meerveld confirmed he did not want the two-school model to be implemented before this election.
"It was obvious that a very large proportion of the population didn't want it and the teaching staff didn't want it," he added.
Listen live to BBC Radio Guernsey's election special.
We've had the following statement from the election team:
Quote MessageIt’s still all hands on deck at Beau Sejour as the count continues. Around a third of the ballot papers have now been through the scanner. Currently it looks like the declaration won’t be before midnight. We’ll keep you updated through the evening."
Looks like we might need to get more snacks for the BBC office... we've only got a single doughnut left!
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Chairman of the Islanders Association Harvey Marshall, a staunch campaigner for the island-wide voting system at the referendum, has called for a deposit for candidates to avoid "time wasters" in future elections.
The former Lord Mayor of Westminster said in his time in UK politics he had experienced the problems thrown up by people running with little chance of winning.
Mr Marshall said: "Sometimes I felt I ought to vote for Screaming Lord Sutch, because he was the most intelligent of the whole lot."
Listen live to BBC Radio Guernsey's election special.
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The President of the Health and Social Care Committee Heidi Soulsby has confirmed if re-elected to the States she does not wish to return to her current committee.
Deputy Soulsby expressed interest in a role on the Policy and Resources Committee.
She said: "Health is the largest department by far in the States of Guernsey, I've been in it for six years now and I'm really proud of what we achieved there.
"But I really do need a break and I think new blood is needed anyway."
Mrs Soulsby suggested she would like to take up a place on P&R to "build on what we've done on health".
"Which is really improve that coordination, get people working together. Because that way things get done."
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