Jersey election: How is the chief minister chosen?

After weeks of campaigning, the results are in.

Jersey's new States Assembly will include 33 returning politicians, 13 new faces and three members who are back after a period outside the chamber.

Thirty-six of the new cohort said they were independents, while political party Reform Jersey has fallen from 10 to seven seats, and six people formally endorsing political movement Value Jersey have been elected.

Over the coming weeks, the 49 new politicians will decide among themselves in a series of votes what role each States member will fulfil.

Here is what is due to happen next.

There is no public vote on who becomes the island's chief minister. Instead, this will be the first big decision made by the new assembly.

Any States member can put themselves forward for the role - as long as they get the backing of at least six elected politicians, and submit a nomination form to the States Greffe by 17:00 BST on Thursday 11 June.

Under States rules, each candidate also needs to submit a statement setting out their "vision for a strategic policy", as well as "the manner in which the candidate would propose to discharge his or her responsibilities as chief minister".

Then, from 09:30 BST on Friday 19 June, in the first sitting of the political term, it will be decision time.

Each of the candidates for the top job will be given up to 10 minutes to make their pitch before they face up to 60 minutes of questions from their peers.

While this is happening, the other candidates will be asked to withdraw from the States Chamber to another room, so that they cannot hear what is said.

Finally, politicians will cast their votes.

If one of the candidates gets more than half of the votes recorded, they will become the chief minister designate.

If there is no clear winner, the candidate with the fewest votes will drop out, and another vote will take place.

This process continues until a victor emerges.

After gaining the top job, the chief minister designate has just under a week in which to strike agreements with political colleagues.

Then, by 09:30 BST on Friday 26 June, the chief minister designate needs to deliver a list to the States Greffe of the elected members they wish to nominate for each ministerial position.

The list will be published that day on the States Assembly website.

But the important point to note is that these are nominations - not confirmed choices.

From 09:30 on Monday 29 June, in an order dictated by the chief minister designate, the assembly will work its way through the list.

And each time the chief minister designate proposes somebody for a ministerial office, it is possible for any other elected member to nominate somebody else to challenge for the role.

If no challenger is proposed, the chief minister designate's pick is given up to 10 minutes to speak, then up to 20 minutes to face questions, before their position is confirmed.

But when a ministerial role is contested the candidates will each have an opportunity to make a 10-minute speech and to face 20 minutes of questions, while their opponents wait in another room.

An assembly vote will follow.

Depending on the outcome, it is possible that the chief minister designate ends up with a politician they did not nominate as a member of their government.

When this happens, the chief minister designate is permitted to change their subsequent picks, or the order in which the remaining roles are decided.

Once the final minister is appointed, the Council of Ministers is complete, and the chief minister designate officially becomes the chief minister.

Some will be appointed by ministers as their assistant ministers - meaning they become members of government.

This process does not require the approval of the assembly.

However, under what is known as the Troy Rule, no more than 21 of Jersey's 49 States Members can join the government.

As such, this will leave 28 politicians - many of whom are likely to join one, or more, of Jersey's scrutiny panels and committees.

At the sitting which begins on Monday 29 June, the chairs of each panel will be selected, in the following order:

• Privileges and Procedures Committee
• Public Accounts Committee
• Corporate Services Scrutiny
• Economic and International Affairs Scrutiny
• Children, Education and Home Affairs Scrutiny
• Environment, Housing and Infrastructure Scrutiny
• Health and Social Security Scrutiny
• Planning Committee
• Jersey Overseas Aid Commission
• Scrutiny Liaison Committee

Nobody can chair more than one panel or committee, with the exception of the Scrutiny Liaison Committee, as its members are the chair of the Public Accounts Committee and the chair of each scrutiny panel.

Any elected member can nominate a colleague to chair a panel or committee.

Each candidate for the position is allowed to speak for up to 10 minutes, and asked to face up to 20 minutes of questions.

Once each chair has been appointed, attention will turn at a sitting beginning on Tuesday 14 July to the selection of members of each panel and committee.

If they wish, States members can opt not to join a panel or committee, nor to join the government.

At this point, the political term is well and truly under way.

The new set of ministers will answer their first questions, both with and without notice, at the sitting that begins on Tuesday 14 July.

Propositions could also be debated and voted upon, but only if they have been lodged in sufficient time to be dealt with, as per States rules.

Once this sitting concludes, the summer parliamentary recess will begin.

Politicians will next return to the States Chamber on Tuesday 8 September.

But work will continue behind the scenes as the new government must agree and publish its key priorities - formally known as the Common Strategic Policy - as well as its first financial plan or budget, which is officially known as the Government Plan and is usually debated in late November or early to mid December.

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