Exhibit 31.1

**CERTIFICATION BY PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICERPURSUANT TO RULE 13a-14**

I, Tom Kirchner, as President and Chief Executive Officer, certify that:- I have reviewed this Form 10-QSB for the quarter ended March 31, 2006 of Electronic    Systems Technology Inc.;    
- Based on my knowledge, this quarterly report does not contain any untrue statement of a    material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in    light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with    respect to the period covered by this quarterly report;    
- Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information    included in this quarterly report, fairly present in all material respects the financial    condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the    periods presented in this quarterly report;    
- The small business issuer's other certifying officers and I are responsible for    establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange    Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as    defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the small business issuer and    have:        a)designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and    procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information    relating to the small business issuer, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made    known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this    quarterly report is being prepared;        b)[Omitted as permitted by Exchange Act Release No. 47986];        c)Evaluated the effectiveness of the small business issuer’s disclosure controls and    procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the    disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report    based on such evaluation; and d)Disclosed in this report any change in the small    business issuer’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the    small business issuer’s most recent fiscal quarter (the small business issuer’s    fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is    reasonably likely to materially affect, the small business issuer’s internal control    over financial reporting; and 
- I have disclosed, based on my most recent evaluation of internal control over financial    reporting, to the small business issuer’s auditors and the audit committee of the    small business issuer’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent    functions):        a)All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of    internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect    the small business issuer’s ability to record, process, summarize and report    financial information; and        b)Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have    a significant role in the small business issuer’s internal control over financial    reporting.    
Date:  May 11, 2006
By: /s/ TOM L KIRCHNER  Tom L. Kirchner  President and Chief Executive Officer