Words vs. votes

Every 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.

“Members, if this Code were fit for purpose we would not be interpreting it; we would be applying it.”— Adrian Gabriel“Applying tax to food is simply morally wrong.”— Aidan Matthews“Madam, saying no is easy. It requires no courage, no plan, no accountability, and no insight as to what comes next.”— Andrew Niles“I have returned for another swig from the poison chalice”— Andy Cameron“At its best, scrutiny acts as a form of institutional disinfectant; improving transparency, testing assumptions, and strengthening proposals before final decisions are taken.”— Andy Sloan“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.”— Bruno Kay-Mouat“I would simply remind him that I have quite a long track record of being more right than other people.”

Deputies tracked

38 seats, plus 1 outgoing deputy

Manifesto promises

610

Extracted from 2025 manifestos

Recorded votes

246

States of Deliberation, this term

Tied to a vote

275 / 610

45% map to a recorded vote

Overall

How the promises are tracking

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 sat the relevant votes out. The rest have no bearing recorded vote yet.

Kept · 249Mixed · 10Broken · 4Abstained · 12No recorded vote · 335

By deputy

The scorecard

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.

“Surely, if GST is to be the right answer, then we would want to introduce it from a position of confidence, not hope, as I feel we are doing.”— Chris Blin

“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,”— David Dorrity

“I want to tell you a story. It is a story of a fictional island, one that made the very choices we are contemplating today. Once upon a time there was an Island that was vibrant, loud, and full of life, but its Government made a fatal choice. They decided to squeeze the middle, taxing the groceries, the fuel, and the basic lives of ordinary families, while letting the wealthiest pay next to nothing. Slowly the lights began to go out.”— David Goy

“my decision in April 2022 to use two words in the States of Deliberation, the name of the complainant, has cost me and my family very dearly, financially in terms of legal costs, and personally in terms of stress on us all.”— Gavin St Pier

“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.”— George Oswald

“Democracy should not be the line item where we decide to economise.”— Haley Camp

“Reading through the papers, I felt I was witnessing what I can only call a heavyweight boxing match between individuals with impressive intellects locked in an interminable battle where there appeared to be a reluctance to admit mistakes, where many others sought to throw punches from the sidelines in order to either defend their champion or knock out their assailant.”— Jayne Ozanne

“I am a Member of the England and Wales Green Party, for the record, but I do not necessarily agree with them and I will explain why in a minute.”— John Gollop

“Put simply, policy should not be outsourced to a rating agency.”— Lee Van Katwyk

“The cost of inaction or delay is not neutral and it is not kind.”— Lindsay de Sausmarez

“Reform can only be delivered by a competent and effective executive team. Until we have built one, every other proposal, including the one before us, is a way of not saying that out loud.”— Marc Laine

“We need to grow a set and make the decisions ourselves.”— Marc Leadbeater

“An appeaser is someone who feeds a crocodile hoping he will be eaten last. That would very much apply, in my view, and certainly I would think so across the finance sector quite broadly to the OECD.”— Mark Helyar

“That is not a question of affordability; it is a question of priority.”— Munazza Malik

“Two and two does not equal four, it equals orange.”— Neil Inder

“I will save my main comments for the main debate, which should take place sometime during 2027 on the current trajectory.”— Paul Montague

“A referendum on part of the package is misleading. It does not ask the whole question.”— Rhona Humphreys

“A consumption tax is a flat tax on spending; 3% for the wealthiest household on the island, 3% for the poorest. On the face of it, that sounds like equality, right? It is nothing of the kind.”— Rob Curgenven

“We have to remember at the end of the day that these are not just resources that are costing us money. These are humans that are trying to live here.”— Ross Le Brun

“Throughout this speech I will be unapologetically aspirational, and I will do so despite a firmly-held suspicion that it will make this Assembly feel a little bit uncomfortable.”— Sally Rochester

“cost should not be the reason why we do not proceed with democracy. We are in fiscally restrained times, but we have just spent £1.1 million on preparing for an Moneyval inspection. We spend over £1 million on the Office of the Data Protection Authority. We do that because it is necessary for Guernsey to function in the global economy, but let us be clear, a by-election is necessary for Guernsey to function as a democracy.”— Sarah Hansmann Rouxel

“I am certainly going to vote for it and, if I could, I would vote for it twice, sir. (Laughter)”— Simon Vermeulen

“We should not be playing tariff bingo and I will not vote for this amendment.”— Steve Falla

“I think generally, it sounds good but, in reality, it is bloody difficult to do. Excuse my French.”— Steve Williams

“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.”— Tina Bury

“I honestly cannot see how we can rebuild trust in democracy by cancelling a democratic process.”— Yvonne Burford

Vice-President, Committee for Health & Social Care

12 of 12 voted-on promises kept (100%)

12 of 29 promises tied to a vote so far