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Guernsey · Promises vs votes
Deputy ScorecardEvery promise States Deputies made in their 2025 election manifestos, set against how they have actually voted in the States of Deliberation. Kept, broken, or somewhere in between, with the recorded votes to prove it. Where no recorded vote bears on a promise, we assess delivery against the public record. How this works.
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LinkedIn · Bridgehead Communications“I grew up in Guernsey. An island of 64,000 people should already have something like this. Nobody was paying for it, so we built it. It’s free. No login, no paywall.”William Walter, Bridgehead Communications9 reactions
Facebook Group · Guernsey People Against GST“Guernseyman Will Walter is launching a new website to allow the public to access a Deputies’ Scorecard, manifesto promises versus votes, and wider island data.”Chris Murray24 commentsFacebook Group · Guernsey People Against GST“It should also be a marker for future elections! Let’s see if they are worth the money 💰”Joe CouchyFacebook Group · Guernsey People Against GST“Excellent idea.”John Collins1 likeFacebook Group · Guernsey People Against GST“…If this wonderful idea could be hard baked into States legislature, with a mechanism to deal with misconduct and failures to perform — great idea.”Dagwood BumpyheadFacebook Group · reply thread“Will Walter is digging out the stuff from that gov.gg maze. Keep looking at his website.”Chris Murray1 likeLinkedIn · Repost“A really interesting scorecard that my old school friend William has created to try and keep our politicians honest and accountable.”Christopher Richards5 reactions · 3 commentsLinkedIn · Comment“This is excellent. Great work William Walter and thanks for sharing Christopher Richards!”Sophie Outhwaite, Chartered FCSI1 reactionLinkedIn · Comment“Transparency, clarity and accountability: exactly what good governance should look like.”SOS Guernsey Advisory Ltd.1 reactionFacebook · BBC Guernsey“This sounds like a great idea for accountability and I bet the deputies whose intentions are to serve to people who voted them in, with integrity and honesty, will be delighted to be visible and have their progress tracked on this site.”Bronwen Dudley-Owen3 reactionsFacebook · BBC Guernsey“Anything that makes the deputies sit up and notice they are elected to represent the people is good for me.”Alison Mauger2 likesDeputies tracked
38
38 seats, plus 1 outgoing deputy
Manifesto promises
602
Extracted from 2025 manifestos
Recorded votes
246
States of Deliberation, this term
Tied to a vote
264 / 602
44% map to a recorded vote
Overall
Across every tracked deputy. A promise is 'kept' when the deputy voted to deliver it on every bearing recorded vote, 'broken' when they voted against, 'mixed' when both, 'abstained' when they were present but explicitly declined to vote on every bearing vote, and 'no side taken' when they never voted on any of them for some other reason - absent, excused, or otherwise unable to. The rest have no bearing recorded vote yet.
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Ranked by promises kept, with broken promises counted doubly against a deputy and kept-rate breaking ties, among those with enough of a voting record (or a smaller but fully vote-tested one) to rank; thinner records follow. Click any deputy for their promise-by-promise record with the votes behind each verdict.
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Lindsay de Sausmarez
14 promisesPresident, Policy & Resources Committee
9 of 9 voted-on promises kept (100%)
9 of 14 promises tied to a vote so far
CommitteeAttended every committee meeting
In a bid to showcase the best of the Channel Islands, and to mark the imminent launch of the Jersey edition of the scorecard, we’re launching Top of the Rocks: islanders from across the Channel Islands can vote for their favourite political soundbite of the term.
Jersey“We have assumed for too long that there is always a bag of money down the back of the sofa which will bail us out.”
Budget debate, Social Security grant amendment
Guernsey“Two and two does not equal four, it equals orange.”
on the contradiction of supporting an amendment losing £22 million while sitting on the Health Committee, during the Tax Reform debate
Guernsey“I would simply remind him that I have quite a long track record of being more right than other people.”
on his optimistic forecasts for Pillar Two tax receipts during the Tax Reform debate
Guernsey“I am not talking here just about ensuring that we produce children so they can be these little fiscal sausages that go through the machine of society. (Laughter) But if we genuinely care about the future of this Island we have to do something radical.”
on the Tax Reform debate, seconding an amendment for a tax allowance for dependent children amid Guernsey's falling birth rate
Jersey“You cannot phone the dog up; you have got the dog.”
reference-back debate on Dangerous Dogs legislation (collar-tag rules)
Guernsey“I have returned for another swig from the poison chalice”
on returning to the Education, Sport & Culture Committee and supporting the new school governance model
Jersey“I am going to start my series of contributions by switching on a turntable and placing a broken record on it because I will be making a point that I fear I will need to repeatedly return to throughout the course of this week.”
opening of the Budget debate
Guernsey“I must however question why we continue to go to the Rolls Royce shop to buy a car. We could in fact go to the Mini shop to buy a car, or even better still we could review our need to buy a car and buy a bicycle, or even better walk and save the funds for a greater need.”
on the Government Work Plan and the need to question spending priorities
Jersey“they are only dangerous in the context to those who do not like to be licked or have to tickle their tummies”
declaring an interest as a dog owner, Dangerous Dogs debate
Guernsey“I am certainly going to vote for it and, if I could, I would vote for it twice, sir. (Laughter)”
on a 2026 Budget amendment calling for spending restraint
Jersey“Perhaps the Jersey version of the film could be called Butch Lyndon and the Scottish Kid.”
Budget debate, on the Social Security grant funding mechanism
Jersey“One thing not to do with Fort Regent is to make it a suburb of Benidorm.”
Budget debate, on Fort Regent redevelopment
Guernsey“I will save my main comments for the main debate, which should take place sometime during 2027 on the current trajectory.”
on the Tax Reform debate, remarking on the slow pace of proceedings
Guernsey“That’s Facebook for you. If you are born on Facebook, you die on Facebook. Even though I have sympathy for him, I remember him doing very well out of Facebook.”
defending Deputy Leadbeater against criticism during the debate over withdrawing his cannabis-legalisation requête
Jersey“Can you say that once more… no, I am sorry.”
reacting to a lengthy technical Budget amendment just read out
Jersey“I do not want to disappoint the Deputy, but he is not in my top 20 yet.”
Question Time, on alternative uses of Philip Le Feuvre House
Guernsey“We first met supporting a group of teenagers through the Young Enterprise Scheme and somehow, despite that experience, we both still decided public life was a good idea,”
on proposing Deputy Camp for election to the Policy & Resources Committee
Guernsey“So far I have changed my mind at least twice (Laughter) but I have come down to the view that I will be supporting this proposal for the arguments raised.”
on the by-election 2026 debate
Jersey“Is the Chief Minister aware that putting 2 microphones on does not make him in stereo?”
Question Time to the Chief Minister
Guernsey“Rumours abound of a filibuster plan, so abound that it has been reported in the media. For those who do not know what filibustering is, it is just to waste time, to delay, (A Member: Hear, hear.) to fill the space for as long as you can.”
on a motion to suspend procedural rules during the Tax Reform debate
Jersey“We have gone from 2028 to 2029, if we carry on a little longer I might get him to 2030.”
ministerial hustings, on reinstating the Social Security States grant
