How the scorecard works

Sources

• Promises - each candidate’s manifesto on election2025.gg, published for the 18 June 2025 general election.
• Votes- the States of Deliberation’s Simultaneous Electronic Voting record (statesvoting-records.gov.gg), which publishes how every deputy voted (Pour / Contre / Ne vote pas) on each recorded proposition.
• Delivery verdicts - where no recorded vote bears on a promise, an AI assistant researches the public record (gov.gg, parliament.gg, States Resolutions, the Guernsey Press, BBC, ITV) and cites its evidence.

How a promise is scored

For each promise we identify the recorded votes that genuinely test it, and for each we determine which way of voting would deliver it. We then read off how the deputy actually voted:

• Kept - voted to deliver the promise on every bearing vote.
• Broken - voted against delivering it on every bearing vote.
• Mixed - voted to deliver on some, against on others.
• Abstained - there were bearing votes, but the deputy abstained or was absent for all of them.
• No recorded vote - nothing in the recorded voting record bears on the promise (often the case for executive or committee-level commitments). These fall back to the AI delivery verdict.

How deputies are ranked

Deputies are ranked by their kept-rate (the share of their voted-on promises they kept) rather than the raw number kept, so a deputy is judged on how faithfully they voted, not on how many of their promises happened to reach a division. The number of promises kept breaks ties.

• Only promises with a direct or clear (high- or medium-relevance)bearing vote count towards the score. Votes that touch a promise only partially or indirectly are shown on the deputy’s page as “related votes” for context, but never move the verdict.
• A deputy needs at least five scored promises to be ranked. With fewer, a single vote could produce a misleading 100% (or 0%) rate, so those deputies are listed separately as an insufficient record rather than placed in the table.

Limitations

• Not every States decision is a recorded vote - many pass on a show of hands. Only recorded (electronic) votes can be attributed to an individual deputy.
• Matching a promise to a vote, and judging which way delivers it, involves editorial judgement. Each link carries a short rationale; we welcome corrections.
• The current term began in July 2025, so the record is still short - many promises have no bearing vote yet, and AI verdicts often read “in progress”.
• This is a pilot covering the committee leadership. Coverage will widen to all 38 deputies.

Updates

New recorded votes are ingested daily and promises re-scored automatically. Manifesto promises are fixed for the term. Delivery verdicts are refreshed on a rolling 30-day cycle.