Election 2026: The current politicians standing down

A total of 92 candidates have put their names forward for election to Jersey's States Assembly, the island's electoral authority has confirmed.

Forty-nine of them will be elected to the chamber after islanders go to the polls on 7 June.

Following changes to the electoral system, voters will select 12 constables, 28 deputies and nine senators to represent them until summer 2030.

But while 41 of the current cohort of Jersey politicians are seeking to retain their seats, eight will not be seeking re-election. But who are they?

It has been a political term of highs and lows for Kristina Moore.

When the results of the June 2022 election were confirmed, it was announced that she had secured 2,730 votes in St Mary, St Ouen and St Peter - more than any other deputy candidate in the island.

Within a matter of weeks, she had been elected by all but 10 of Jersey's new States members as the island's first female chief minister.

But the political support which had propelled her to power soon began to dwindle.

In January 2024, Tom Binet resigned as infrastructure minister and brought a vote of no confidence against Moore.

And after a day of debate, on the evening of 16 January 2024, the results were in: Moore had lost the top job.

Binet went on to become health minister and deputy chief minister in the new government led by Lyndon Farnham.

Moore, meanwhile, returned to the back benches, becoming a member of both the Public Accounts Committee and the Privileges and Procedures Committee.

She has since confirmed that she will be leaving the States Assembly after almost 15 years, four successful elections, and a political career which also saw her hold the positions of home affairs minister, chair of the Health, Social Security and Housing Scrutiny Panel; and chair of the Corporate Services Scrutiny Panel.

The longest-serving of Jersey's most recent set of politicians, when Simon Crowcroft was first elected to the States Assembly in November 1996, the Spice Girls were topping the UK singles chart and Kevin Keegan's Newcastle United were atop the English Premier League.

After two terms as a deputy in St Helier Number 2, Crowcroft became the parish's constable in December 2001.

He has since been re-elected to the role a further six times (2004, 2008, 2011, 2014, 2018, 2022).

Throughout his 30-year political career, he has served on a number of different panels and committees, from Planning and Environment to Tourism, Privileges and Procedures to Education and Home Affairs Scrutiny.

But it was not until November 2023, in the final days of Kristina Moore's premiership, that Crowcroft accepted a role in government.

He has since served in Lyndon Farnham's government as an assistant chief minister and as assistant infrastructure minister.

Deputy Sir Philip Bailhache steps down from politics after a States Assembly career spanning more than five decades which saw him serve in senior political and legal roles.

His political career started when he was elected as the Deputy of Grouville in 1972.

While his career continued in the States Assembly, it was not as a politician but rather in the four Crown offices.

A lawyer by profession, Sir Philip served as solicitor general from 1975 to 1986 and then attorney general from 1986 to 1994.

He was then deputy baliff for a year before becoming the baliff, meaning he presided over the States Assembly and was president of the Royal Court for 14 years from 1995 to 2009.

He returned as a politician in 2011 after being elected a senator and served as the minister for external relations for five years from 2013 to 2018.

He launched a new political party in 2021, the Jersey Liberal Conservatives, and, while he was elected as a deputy in St Clement in 2022, the party only got two seats in the assembly.

He retires from politics having spent the last term on the back benches.

Deputy Philip Ozouf steps down from politics after the last few months of his career ended with him being suspended from the States Assembly three times.

He was sentenced by the Royal Court to 120 hours of community service in February for breaking immigration laws.

Many of his political colleagues called for him to resign, but, even after being convicted in the Royal Court, Ozouf refused to do so.

He was first elected as a deputy in St Helier in 1999, topping the polls in District 3.

His political star then began to rise and he was elected on an island-wide mandate as senator in 2002, then re-elected in 2008 and 2011.

He served as the economic development minister from 2005 to 2008 and as the treasury minister from 2008 until 2014, balancing States' budgets during a period of global economic recession.

He was also the island's deputy chief minister, the second most senior politician, between 2008 and 2011.

Ozouf scraped through the 2014 election as a senator.

During this political term, he served as assistant chief minister - a role he held, resigned from, was reinstated to and then fired from all during six months of 2017.

He returned to the States Assembly in 2022, serving as minister for external relations in Kristina Moore's government.

However, once that government was brought down by a vote of no confidence, Ozouf returned to the back benches.

He was then suspended in September 2025 for breaching the States members' code of conduct relating to speeding offences.

He was suspended for a second time in November 2025 until legal proceedings into his immigration offences concluded.

He was then suspended for a third time in March 2026 after being sentenced to community service for those immigration offences.

His decision not to stand in the 2026 election brings to an end one of Jersey's longest political careers.

One of the founding members of political party Reform Jersey, Geoff Southern, is stepping down after nearly 24 years in the States Assembly.

Two long-serving constables are also stepping down: Deidre Mezbourian and Philip Le Sueur.

Mezbourian was head of St Lawrence Parish for 18 years, while Le Sueur served the parish of Trinity for 12 years.

Outgoing Assistant Minister for Economic Development Moz Scott is also stepping down after resigning from the government, citing "fundamental differences in approach to the administrative redress, economic policy and transparency".

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