Guernsey · Voting Patterns
Guernsey’s States has no political parties — every deputy sits as an independent. This matrix compares every tracked deputy’s voting record against every other deputy’s, across 238 recorded divisions, to see whether informal voting blocs exist anyway. Hover or tap any square for the pair behind it, or pick a deputy below to pin their row and see who they vote closest to — and least like. How this is calculated.
Colour is relative to this matrix, not a fixed 0-100% scale — every cell’s exact percentage and shared-vote count is in the tooltip. Pale grey squares mark pairs with too few shared votes to compare confidently.
For each pair of deputies, we look at every division where both cast a substantive vote (“pour” or “contre”) and calculate the share of those shared votes where they voted the same way. Formal abstentions and absences aren’t counted as agreement or disagreement — they’re simply excluded from that pair’s comparison, the same way promise delivery is scored. Procedural motions (Rule 24(6)/26(1) motions, guillotines, adjournments) are excluded too, since they test a view on chamber process rather than policy.
Deputies are arranged so that similar voting records sit near each other, making clusters easier to spot — the order itself has no meaning beyond that. A pale grey square means fewer than 15 shared votes were recorded for that pair, too few to read anything into.
This measures voting alignment only. It says nothing about whether either deputy kept their own promises — see promise delivery rankings for that.