John Young
John Young is a former States Member, first elected to the States of Jersey in 2011. John Young has declared his intention to stand in the upcoming 2026 Deputies Election in District 2, representing Reform Jersey. \[jerseyeveningpost.com\]
John Young is a former Deputy for St Brelade (2011-14) with senior civil service experience and a background in finance, legal, and planning sectors. He is running for Senator, emphasizing his track record of successful propositions and criticizing the Council of Ministers for out-of-touch policies on spending, taxes, health charges, pensions, population growth, and urban issues. He pledges to resign his job, challenge the government constructively, and work on better solutions during the short 20-month term.
Issue PositionsAI-extracted
Calls for modernisation of State Pensions.
"We need to modernise State Pensions."
Supports diversification, tourism expansion, reduced regulation, and finance industry.
"expand cultural, heritage and environmental tourism - reduce regulation - diversification of our economy - support our finance industry"
Emphasizes vocational skills in education.
"emphasis on vocational skills in education"
Supports protecting coast, countryside, and renewable energy.
"Protect our coast and countryside. - renewable energy"
Opposes proposed health and hospital charges, viewing them as disguised tax increases.
Oppose proposed health and hospital charges
“The proposed health and hospital charges are disguised tax increases.”
Supports urban regeneration in St Helier.
"Urban regeneration - St Helier needs to regeneration programme so it becomes a place where people want to live."
Seeks to control population growth to ease demand on services, infrastructure, and avoid town cramming.
"We need to control our population growth to reduce the demand for public services and future investment in infrastructure, and to prevent the need for “town cramming “which damages the quality of life for town residents."
Criticizes uncontrolled public spending, departmental silos, top-heavy civil service, and cuts hitting the wrong people, calling for a new transformation approach.
Halt cuts to front line services until States house in order
“We should freeze tax increases and halt cuts to front line services, until the States house is in order.”
Supports freezing tax increases and reforming the tax system for fairness by taxing profits of non-locally owned trading businesses.
Freeze tax increases
“We should freeze tax increases”
Tax profits of non locally owned trading businesses
“taxing the profits of non locally owned trading businesses”
Proposes Urban Improvement Areas to regenerate town back streets and reclaim residential streets from traffic.
Establish Urban Improvement Areas for town regeneration
“establish Urban Improvement Areas to regenerate the back streets of town and reclaim the residential streets from traffic”
John Young
Candidate for Senator
The new Senator will have only twenty months in office. They will require experience of the States to take opportunities and win the support of back benchers to policy changes. I have that knowledge and experience and will be able to hit the ground running from the very first States sitting. It will also require hard work .My track record proves I can offer both.
My record
I am not a career politician but have worked full time from the age of 16. For twenty-five years I was a senior civil servant in Jersey, thirteen of them as a Chief Officer. I have held senior positions in our finance and legal sectors for seven years as well as being active in voluntary work including Chairman and Treasurer of the Arts Centre. I am now a Planning Officer.
Data sources (3)
2018 Deputies Election
Deputy of St Brelade No 1 · 16th May 2018 · 1 seat
2016 Senator By-Election
12th July 2016 · 1 seat
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sarah Ferguson | Independent | 3,649 | 29.7% |
| 2 | Sam Mézec | Reform Jersey | 3,518 | 28.6% |
| 3 | Christian May | Independent | 2,018 | 16.4% |
| 4 | John Youngthis candidate | Independent | 1,240 | 10.1% |
| 5 | Hugh Raymond | Independent | 988 | 8% |
| 6 | Guy de Faye | Independent | 254 | 2.1% |
| 7 | Mary O’Keeffe | Independent | 246 | 2% |
| 8 | Nick Le Cornu | Independent | 139 | 1.1% |
| 9 | Alvin Aaron | Independent | 103 | 0.8% |
| 10 | Mike Dun | Independent | 73 | 0.6% |
| 11 | Stevie Ocean | Independent | 70 | 0.6% |
2014 Senators Election
Senator · 15th October 2014 · 8 seats
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ian Gorst | Independent | 14,037 | 56.3% |
| 2 | Sir Philip Bailhache | Independent | 13,770 | 55.2% |
| 3 | Andrew Green MBE | Independent | 13,240 | 53.1% |
| 4 | Alan Maclean | Independent | 11,698 | 46.9% |
| 5 | Paul Routier MBE | Independent | 10,964 | 44% |
| 6 | Zoe Cameron | Independent | 10,412 | 41.8% |
| 7 | Lyndon Farnham | Independent | 10,409 | 41.8% |
| 8 | Philip Ozouf Jr | Independent | 10,062 | 40.4% |
| 9 | Sarah Ferguson | Independent | 9,800 | 39.3% |
| 10 | Sean Power | Independent | 8,263 | 33.1% |
| 11 | John Youngthis candidate | Independent | 7,095 | 28.5% |
| 12 | Malcolm Ferey | Independent | 6,488 | 26% |
| 13 | Geoff Habin | Independent | 5,329 | 21.4% |
| 14 | Anne Southern | Reform Jersey | 4,276 | 17.2% |
| 15 | Guy de Faye | Independent | 3,381 | 13.6% |
| 16 | Chris Magee | Independent | 3,153 | 12.6% |
| 17 | Konrad Kruszynski | Independent | 2,059 | 8.3% |
| 18 | David Richardson | Independent | 1,811 | 7.3% |
| 19 | Shirley Baudains | Independent | — | — |
2011 Deputies Election
Deputy of St Brelade No 1 · 7th September 2011 · 1 seat
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | John Youngthis candidate | Independent | 339 | 27.3% |
| 2 | Margaret Holland-Prior | Independent | 306 | 24.6% |
| 3 | Jeff Hathaway | Independent | 285 | 22.9% |
| 4 | Angela Jeune | Independent | 276 | 22.2% |