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Falklands elects new Assembly

Eight Members of the Legislative Assembly voted in and only two from the previous Assembly remain.

MLA Jack Ford for the Camp constituency and MLA Roger Spink for Stanley are the only MLAs re-elected in this year’s general election.

The election, on Thursday 11 December, saw a Stanley turnout of 81.4% and a Camp turnout of 90%.

Each Stanley voter gets five votes and a total of 1,295 ballots were retuned with 5,987 votes cast. One ballot paper was rejected as votes were given for more candidates than the voter was entitled to vote for.

The Stanley MLAs elected are:

  • Stacy Bragger
  • Lewis Clifton
  • Dean Dent
  • Cheryl Roberts
  • Roger Spink

Camp voters have three votes to use and a total of 217 ballots were returned with 597 votes cast. No ballot papers were rejected.

The Camp MLAs elected are:

  • Jack Ford
  • Michael Goss
  • Dot Gould
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