Anyone interested in what my playlist turned out to be for the Morning After Electiion Special on Falklands Radio might like to see this
#FalklandsElection25

#FalklandsElection25
The Gazette notices with the official results of the #FalklandIslands general election have been published:

www.falklands.gov.fk/legalservice...

Stanley Constituency BIGGS, PETER - 93 ROBERTS, CHERYL - 694 BRAGGER, STACY - 635 ROSS, GLENN - 406 BUDD, GRANT - 128 SHORT, GAVIN - 228 CLARKE, CHRIS -58 SPINK, ROGER - 555 CLIFTON, LEWIS - 844 SUMMERS, LEE - 422 DENT, DEAN - 701 VIDAL, LEONA- 520 KILMARTIN, CLOVIS - 136 WEBB, GARY- 243 POLLARD, MARK - 323 11th December 2025 |5987 votes Cresit: Falklands Radio

Not quite out: by my calculation, the deposit threshold for Stanley was 150 and four candidates including one incumbent lost their deposits:
Pete Biggs, Grant Budd, Chris Clarke and Clovis Kilmartin
Full Stanley #result for #FalklandsElection25, with due credit again to Falklands Radio:

Four hours from close of poll to the end of count and the hall empties 45 minutes before last orders!
Falklands Radio closed down at 10.20pm after Ali promised that I’ll be on air to reopen the station in just over eight and a half hours time!
#FalklandsElection25 is over and this #liveskeet is out!

#FalklandsElection25 #hottake
Not a 2009-style clean sweep, but it might as well as have been
In so far as left right politics apply in the #Falklands, it’s definitely a quite a shift to the right
I think a fair summary is that the new Assembly will be “business friendly” and fiscally conservative

STANLEY RESULT #FalklandsElection25 #result
Lewis Clifton and Cheryl Roberts top the poll
Stacy Bragger, Dean Dent and Roger Spink make up the rest of the 5

Pete Biggs loses both his seat and his deposit
Mark Pollard, Gavin Short and Leona Vidal lose their seats
#liveskeet #corrected

Falklands Radio is taking a musical break from live coverage of the #FalklandsElection25 count and this #liveskeet will take a break too ..

The counters’ work seems to be done and the live coverage on Falklands Radio is taking a break with Darius Rucker’s version of Wagon Wheel!

The Stanley result in #FalklandsElection25 is just a few minutes away

Then I can work out what musical puns I am going to make on the breakfast show tomorrow

The hall suddenly went quiet at the #FalklandsElection25 count, but we are that no announcement seems imminent so the candidate interview and box pops continue

(Dead Ringers once joked that BBC election coverage consisted of seven hours of nothing followed by an hour of something!)

The Governor has just been interviewed on air and said he was “fascinated” by the level of engagement and pleased by the high turnout at #FalklandsElection25

Falklands Radio is now back live on air from the #FalklandsElection25 count at the Town Hall and the Camp candidates are being called forward
First result due soon ..
#liveskeet

For “photos”, substitute “candidates” and this is roughly how I picked my 5 votes for #FalklandsElection25

Good news! The OB gremlins seem to have been tamed
Falklands Radio News Editor Traighana Smith sums up for now and hands back to the studio for a music break
#FalklandsElection25 #liveskeet will return ..

Turnover figures just announced for #FalklandsElection25
Turnover in Camp: 90.8% - 217
Turnover in Stanley: 81.4% - 1295
Turnout is UP from 2021 - up about 4 percentage points in each constituency

Verification took about 90 minutes from close of polls

#liveskeet

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#FalklandsElection25 #liveskeet
4 years ago I was live tweeting the Falklands general election count for FITV
Tonight, I’m at home tuned into the Falklands Radio coverage and I’ll live skeet that in my own name
Go to radio.co.fk to listen live if you want to hear it for yourself

#FalklandsElection25
The count is usually a social event as much as a political one, but (because reasons) I am at home listening to the coverage on Falklands Radio
They are currently playing Wind Of Change, which was requested - I don’t know it was a hope or a prediction!

What the international observers are going to make of it all, I don’t know
I suspect there will be things they will accept as quaint or even well adapted to local circumstances, but also things they will think should have been differently …
#FalklandsElection25

One aspect of voting in a small community is that the polling staff know the voters but still carry out the formalities
Clerk 1: “Hello, Ronnie! Can I have your name, please?”
Clerk 2: “Are you the person registered as Ronald MacLennan Baird at [address]?”
#FalklandsElection25

#FalklandsElection25
I went along about 11.20 to vote and it took me about 25 minutes with about 20 people in front of me in the queue - I went before the people who went before lunch
The FITV reporter said that polling had been “swift”
(I always thought that the cliché used to be “brisk”)

Part of the playout list for the Falklands Radio breakfast show on Election Day (11 December 2025) The track playing was Rick Wakeman’s King Arthur (used by the BBC as its election theme)

#FalklandsElection25 is today
I *had* to play this track on the Breakfast Show this morning

One might think that the timing of both the decision and the announcement raise issues
#FalklandsElection25

Telecommunications was a big issue in 2021 and is still an issue in #FalklandsElection25, but in a different way
The recent changes to the telecoms monopoly (Starlink can now be used in the Falklands legally) have changed the agenda, but what happens to mobile and landline from 2028 is still unclear

However, some of the biggest issues that came up during #FalklandsElection25 in manifestos, speeches, interviews and hustings were:
Immigration
The state of public finances
The size of the public sector
Public sector pay
Salmon farming

Sovereignty and constitutional reform were non-issues

A lot of my #FalklandsElection25 posts have been about process rather than policy - although, to be honest, 19 independents chasing 8 seats in two constituencies* means that personality counts more than policy

* More manageable than Guernsey’s 82 candidates chasing 38 seats in one constituency!

#FalklandsElection25
More emergency arrangements being made to deal with a very Falklands problem
A visiting cruise ship has changed its schedule and *a lot* of people will now be working all day on polling day at short notice
An hour’s worth of mobile voting will now be taking place the day before

#FalklandsElection25
Emergency proxy voting arrangements are going to have to be used by potential voters who were stranded in the UK by a cancelled flight on Sunday night and will not be back in the Falklands until the evening of polling day (at the earliest)

#FalklandsElection25
Mobile polling takes place tomorrow (Wednesday) along several routes on West and East Falkland
More mobile polling takes place on Thursday at places such as the hospital, sheltered housing and old folks' home
Voters on the outer islands were encouraged to vote by post or proxy

The final electoral registers for #FalklandsElection25 were published at end of last week and the numbers have shifted since the version published earlier in the year:
Camp - 239 voters for 3 seats (4 candidates standing)
Stanley - 1590 voters for 5 seats (15 candidates standing)

Listen - Falklands Radio Connecting East and West

#FalklandsElection25
All 19 candidate speeches and interviews will be broadcast as a six hour marathon from 10am until 4pm on Falklands Radio tomorrow (Sunday 30th - UTC 1300-1900)
Listen live (or dip in, out of curiosity) at:
player.broadcast.radio/falklands-ra...

#FalklandsElection25
The P.O. Box area at the post office* is awash with discarded paper manifestos, but they are all available via a Facebook group on which “lively” discussion is taking place

* We all have P.O. Boxes - there is no delivery service in Stanley