Jersey Election reporting 2008

Voters have a choice of 21 candidates for Senator. There are six available
seats. Three sitting senators will be trying to keep their jobs in the States -

Philip Ozouf, Paul Routier and Mike Vibert. Five deputies are aiming for an Islandwide mandate. They are Alan Breckon, Sarah Ferguson, Alan MacLean, Geoff Southern Peter Troy. And thirteen potential newcomers are seeking election. They are Cliff Le Clerq, Nick Le Cornu, Mark Forskitt, Mike Higgins, Jeremy Macon, Ian le Marquand, Nick Palmer, Mick Pashley, Chris Perkins, Trevor Pitman, Montfort Tadier, Adrian Walsh and Daniel Wimberley.

Radio 103 has a site up and running as a blog on the candidates starting at:

http://jerseyelections.wordpress.com/


The BBC site is at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/jersey/the_states/election/


and the JEP has a section at:

http://www.thisisjersey.com/section/election/


I'll be doing my own blog on candidates later, when there is more information about them. For the moment, all I will note is that a number will certainly be seeking some kind of "protest vote", and I hope the vote does not split among them like it did with the JDA and Jersey Central Party in the last elections, so that only the more establishment figures get in - because there are not enough of them to split their votes.