New States will look at election revamp proposals
Saturday 26th April 2008, 9:30AM BST.
THE new States will decide later this year whether to consider island-wide voting.
Results of a Guernsey Press-commissioned survey by islandopinion.com revealed the majority of islanders back its introduction and were unhappy with the current district-based system.
The House Committee will include the findings in its investigations into how the States should be elected in future. The committee’s principal officer, David Robilliard (pictured), said that with this election out the way, he would be able to devote more time to research and drafting an initial report.
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I have to confess to being an ‘outsider’, a Guernseyman by birth and upbringing now living in England but continuing to take a lively interest in the Island. If Guernsey is going to think again about its system of election it really should abandon the system where each voter can have multiple votes in a ‘first-past-the-post’ election. There are several problem with this system but the main one is that most voters don’t realise that if they have two people whom they really want to have elected, then every other vote they cast potentially counts *against* their favoured candidate! In this election, like the last one, the results in every district show signs of candidates being successful or unsuccessful more or less at random – not following the will of the voters. The ideal system for the Island would be the Single Transferable Vote (which could safely be Island-wide) as used in Ireland and in Scotland for local government elections. If you’d like further details they can be found at http://www.electoral-reform.org.uk.
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