No invites to the parties

Thursday 20th October 2005, 12:00AM BST.

VOTERS overwhelmingly rejected party politics last night with not one of the four party members finishing higher than ninth.

Deputy Geoff Southern and Denise Carroll of the Jersey Democratic Alliance finished 13th and tenth respectively, while the Centre Party candidates Senator Paul Le Claire and Kevin Lewis arrived in ninth and 11th positions.

Mr Lewis said later that he was not sure whether he would remain a member of the Centre Party in his forthcoming Deputy campaign.

It was the first time in decades that one party, let alone two, had fielded candidates in an Island election, but voters made a clear choice for the continuation of traditional independent politics in Jersey.

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