Editing Herm (section)

==Politics==
Herm is part of the St Peter Port parish of Guernsey but is not part of any canton. It belongs to the Electoral District of Saint Peter Port South.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.islandlife.org/guernsey_election2008.htm |title=Guernsey Election of States Deputies, 2008 |publisher=Islandlife.org |date=23 April 2008 |access-date=4 October 2012}}</ref> It is rented out to various tenants.<ref name="Administration">{{cite web | url=http://www.justice.gov.uk/downloads/human-rights/ccpr-7th-periodic-report.pdf | title=Seventh Periodic Report from the United Kingdom, the British Overseas Territories, the Crown Dependencies | publisher=UK Government | date=December 2012 | access-date=22 May 2013 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131217013711/http://www.justice.gov.uk/downloads/human-rights/ccpr-7th-periodic-report.pdf | archive-date=17 December 2013 | df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gov.gg/ccm/navigation/government/general-election---23-4-2008/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521190537/http://www.gov.gg/ccm/navigation/government/general-election---23-4-2008/ |archive-date=21 May 2011 |title=General Election – 23.4.2008 |publisher=Guernsey Government |access-date=22 May 2013}}</ref> Unlike the largely autonomous islands of Sark and [[Alderney]] within the Bailiwick, Herm is administered entirely by the States of Guernsey.

[[Auto-free zone|Cars]] and bicycles are banned from Herm,<ref name="Independent">{{cite news | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/herm-island-lovers-rock-941471.html | title=Herm Island: Lovers' rock | work=The Independent | date=25 September 2008 | access-date=29 December 2013 | author=Taylor, Jerome}}</ref> in order to keep "peace and tranquillity".<ref name="Staff "/> Herm does allow [[All-terrain vehicle|quad bike]]s and [[tractor]]s for staff and luggage transport, respectively.<ref name="Staff"/>

===Tenants===
Holders of the post of '''tenant of Herm''':
*Prince Gebhard Fürst Blücher von Wahlstatt (1889–1914)
*[[Compton Mackenzie]] (1920–1923)
*[[Percival Perry, 1st Baron Perry|Percival Lea Dewhurst Perry]] (1923–1939)
*[[A. G. Jefferies]] (1948–1949)
*Major [[Alexander Gough (Peter) Wood]] (1949–1998){{citation needed|date=November 2015}}
*Adrian Heyworth and Pennie Wood Heyworth (c.1980–2008) <ref name=gp2008>[http://guernseypress.com/news/2008/09/23/new-herm-tenants-vow-to-keep-it-open-to-all/ "New Herm tenants vow to keep it open to all"], This is Guernsey, 23 September 2008. Retrieved 4 November 2015.</ref>
*The Starboard Settlement (John and Julia Singer) (2008- ) <ref name=gp2008 />