Tuesday 9 December 2008

Disclosing A Secret Ballot

The States voted by secret ballot to elect Terry le Sueur as Chief Minister. However, I've been assessing all States members on the basis of manifestos, what they have said (and not said), how they have voted in the past (if States members), and I can suggest that with pretty well 90% accuracy, the secret ballot results were as follows:

For Terry Le Sueur (36):

Ian Le Marquand
Alan Maclean
Paul Routier
Philip Ozouf
Sarah Ferguson
Terry Le Sueur
Terry Le Main
Freddie Cohen
Ben Shenton
James Perchard
Angela Jeune
Sean Power
Ian Gorst
Anne Dupre
Philip Rondel
John Le Fondre
Eddie Noel
Jacqui Hilton
Mike Higgins
Andrew Green
Ben Fox
Rob Duhamel
James Reed
Colin Egre
Ann Pryke
Mike Jackson
Juliet Gallichan
John Refault
Dan Murphy
John Gallichan
Deidre Mezbourian
Ken Vibert
Peter Hanning
Graeme Butcher
Silva Yates
Paul Le Claire

For Alan Breckon (17)

Alan Breckon
Bob Hill
Stuart Syvret
Montfort Tadier
Judy Martin
Trevor Pitman
Debbie de Sousa
Shona Pitman
Geoff Southern
Jeremy Macon
Kevin Lewis
Tracy Valois
Roy Le Herissier
Carolyn Labey
Daniel Wimberley
Simon Crowcroft
Len Norman

I will happily post any corrections, if anyone tells me they did not vote according to this calculation! I don't think it that likely, however, and it goes to show how silly the secret ballot is, if it is possible to work out accurately who voted for whom.

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