Advance polling in Guernsey’s 2025 island wide election starts on Sunday.
A further advance polling date on Tuesday precedes the main election date of Wednesday 18 June.
Some postal voters have already cast their ballots but the vast majority are expected to have their say on who they want in the next States from this weekend onwards.
Future Guernsey said accountability is one of the priorities for voters as they make their final considerations on who to elect.
The political movement has released more of its research data that it says shows the attributes voters are most likely to prize in their politicians.
This includes ‘accountability’ – as selected by 46% of those surveyed – and ‘leadership’ and ‘integrity’ – both of which were chosen by 40% of the research cohort.
Closely following these positive attributes was ‘effectiveness’, which received 38% of the vote.
One in five (20%) chose the attribute of ‘optimism’ and 14% were looking for candidates who could demonstrate ‘unity’ and an ability to work with others.
Other research data already published by Future Guernsey has shown that voters are keen to elect people on policies not personality, and that a candidate’s values are a main consideration too.
Future Guernsey Chief Executive Lindsey Freeman said these things will all be at the forefront of voters’ minds as they cast their ballots.
“As we all go through the frankly bamboozling process of attempting to choose thirty-eight candidates to vote for, we are largely faced with manifestos which contain a plethora of promises, backed up by little other than opinion and rhetoric. In contrast, our research shows that the community is clear about what it wants from States members.
“Accountability, leadership and effectiveness are all traits that the public has seen sorely lacking in the recent States Assembly, leading to a seemingly unbreakable cycle of inertia.
“Our aim with Future Guernsey has been to change this broken system, by collaborating with the community to produce a detailed set of well-researched policies, which candidates are free to adopt as a whole or in part, should they choose to do so. We must act now to effect change at this election, and we truly believe that a ‘policy first’ approach is the only way to do that.”