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# WATCH: Snap General Election reaction as de Sausmarez tops the polls
- URL: https://www.thequarry.media/watch-snap-general-election-reaction-as-de-sausmarez-tops-the-polls/
- Published: 2025-06-19T20:30:51.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-19T20:52:42.000Z
- Description: 17 first-timers enter the States on generally difficult night for sitting deputies.
- Author: Nick Mann
- Tags: News, election

- Lindsay de Sausmarez secures 10,721 votes
- Peter Ferbrache, Andrea Dudley-Owen and Rob Prow lose their seats
- 17 first-timers enter the States
- 11 of the 38 seats won by women
- Turnout falls to 72%

Calls for unity were to the fore after a General Election which saw Lindsay de Sausmarez returned as the polltopper.

It was a difficult day elsewhere for incumbents with many big names shedding votes and the likes of Peter Ferbrache, Andrea Dudley-Owen and Rob Prow all losing their seats.

A big swathe of candidates that stood on an anti-GST platform performed well.

Turnout was down on the first islandwide election in 2020, from 80% to 72%, and with fewer people on the electoral roll it saw a sizable fall in the total number of ballots submitted from 24,627 to 19,686.

The only party, Forward Guernsey, secured three seats: Gavin St Pier, who lost 5,350 votes compared to 2020 in finishing seventh, Tom Rylatt and Rhona Humphreys.

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**Full analysis to come in Tuesday’s newsletter.**