Elections in Jersey gives information on election and election results in Jersey. An election is a process in which a vote is held to elect candidates to an office. It is the mechanism by which a democracy fills elective offices in the legislature, and sometimes the executive and judiciary, and in which electorates choose local government officials.
See election for a more comprehensive discussion and the List of democracy and elections-related topics for an overview on related topics.
Jersey elects on national level a legislature. The States of Jersey have 53 members, 40 elected for a three year term (29 deputies elected in single- and multi-seat constituencies and 12 constables, head of the parishes) and 12 senators elected for a six year term, 6 of them renewed every three years. Jersey is a state in which political parties don't play an important role. The senators were last elected 16 october 2002, the deputies 27 november 2002.
In East Jersey, Essex County and what later became Morris County were largely owned by the Scottish partners of the proprietors, who tried to transplant their ways to New Jersey.
Consequently, New Jersey was one of the five states represented at the Annapolis Convention to discuss interstate commerce and was a moving force behind the calling of the Constitutional Convention.
Assured of equality with the larger states in at least one house of Congress, New Jersey became the third state to ratify the Constitution of the United States on December 18, 1787.
Jersey is a member of the British-Irish Council, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and the Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie.
Jersey Royal potatoes are the local variety of new potato, and the island is famous for its early crop of small potatoes from the south-facing côtils (steeply-sloping fields).
Jersey is the home of Durrell Wildlife (formerly known as the Jersey Zoological Park) and Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust, founded by the naturalist, zookeeper, and author Gerald Durrell.
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