Manifesto booklet costs taxpayers £133k

The 2025 Guernsey general election booklet cost taxpayers £133,026.89 to produce and distribute across the island, according to the States.

In a review of the 2020 general election, the States Scrutiny Management Committee (SMC) said: "The booklet was used by 87% of people in 2020."

A UK firm was used to print the booklet, which contains 80 manifestos.

Candidates could provide either two or four A4 pages for the booklet.

Unlike in 2020, when candidate's submissions were spell checked and re-formatted, the States Assembly and Constitution Committee instructed manifestos should be reproduced in the booklet as submitted by candidates.

The deadline to submit manifestos was 14 May at 17:00.

A third of manifestos in the booklet were described as "dull" and "corporate" by a leading academic, speaking to the Your Voice, Your Vote podcast.

As part of the SMC review of the 2020 election the States manifesto booklet was described as "by a significant margin, the most frequently used and the most useful source of information."

Scrutiny's survey of voters showed "the manifesto booklet was the key document for voters."

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