Elections
English and Welsh Local elections 2012
Elections are taking place on May 3rd for English District, Metropolitan Borough and Unitary Councils that elect a third or one half of their Councillors at a time, and for all bar one of the Unitary Councils in Wales. Significantly fewer seats are up for election than last year.
160 Councils in all are holding scheduled elections or by-elections, and the Green Party is fielding candidates in three quarters of these areas. The total of 119 Councils with Green candidates is an increase of 10 on the previous like set of elections.
The Green Party is standing 943 candidates, an increase of 13% on the last time these Councils held elections. You can see a complete list of our candidates here.
In addition we are contesting the Mayoral polls in both Liverpool and Salford.
The party is defending 22 seats and is aiming to make gains in a number of places including Reading, Reigate and Banstead, Dudley, Solihull and Kirklees. With a record 37 candidates in Cardiff, the Wales Green Party is looking to regain representation at Unitary authority level and win its first seat in the Welsh capital.
London Mayor and Assembly elections 2012
The London Mayoral and Assembly Elections take place on May 3rd 2012. The Green Party are standing a full slate of candidates across London with Jenny Jones our candidate for Mayor, 14 Assembly Constituency Candidates and 11 Candidates for the London-wide Assembly List.
Jenny Jones is our candidate for London Mayor in 2012. You can follow her on twitter and on Facebook here.
You can follow our campaign on the London Green Party site. Click here to see the full list of our 25 candidates for the list vote for the London Assembly elections and our Constituency candidates.
Welsh and Local elections 2011
We ran 1605 candidates, including 4 by-elections, and mayoral races in Leicester, Torbay and Bedford. Our target candidate for the Welsh Assembly elections was Jake Griffiths, in South Wales Central. Overall, we gained 14 councillors (our tally now being 130 councillors on 43 principal authority councils), but we didn't achieve a seat under AMS in the Welsh Assembly.
Please click here for election results for the Welsh Assembly race and English local elections.
General Election
At the 2010 general election, Caroline Lucas won the constituency of Brighton Pavilion.
In 2005, Greens scored a record 22% of the vote in Brighton. In 2007, the Green Party beat all the other parties in the constituency to win 30% of the vote and first place, and at the same time doubled our number of councillors on Brighton and Hove City Council.
Find out more about the work of Caroline Lucas, now that she is MP for Brighton Pavilion: www.carolinelucas.com
In Norwich South, our candidate was Adrian Ramsay, leader at the time of the largest group of Green Councillors in the UK on Norwich City Council.
In both 2007 and 2008, the Greens received more votes than any other party in the local elections. More about Norwich Greens and their ongoing campaigns: http://www.norwichgreenparty.org/
In Lewisham Deptford, London Assembly Member and Lewisham Councillor Darren Johnson was our candidate for the next general election. In 2005, this was our second highest result in the General Election, when Darren gained 11% of the vote. Between then and the general election, we gained five more councillors in the area.
More about Lewisham's campaign: http://www.lewishamgreens.org.uk/
Local elections 2010
Local elections in 2010 took place at the same time as the General Election. One third of the seats in each of 118 District, Borough, Metropolitan Borough and Unitary Councils outside of London, and all seats on the 32 London Borough Councils, were up for election. Three others have by-elections with Green party candidates.
Find out more about the local elections in 2010 on this page.
Past elections
European Elections 2009
The European Elections were on 4 June 2009. Voting was done in ten regions across England and Wales and seats were allocated in each region using a system of proportional representation.
The Green Party re-elected two MEPs: Jean Lambert, in London, and Caroline Lucas, in the South East.
Our candidates in the European Elections 2009
Find out more on our regional websites.
County Council Elections 2009
The Green Party contested nearly a third of the seats up for election on June 4th, with 781 candidates across 33 County Councils and Unitary authorities. There were also Green Party candidates standing in 10 by-elections on the same day and several elections to Parish and Town Councils in England featured Green candidates.
Our Candidates in the County Council Elections (2009) - pdf
London Elections 2008
In London, the Mayor and Assembly elections saw more than 400,000 people vote Green. Mayoral candidate Sian Berry came fourth with 3% of first choice votes and 16.5% of second choice votes. In the Londonwide Assembly elections, Greens came third in several constiuencies and retained two places on the London Assembly, beating a Labour-Tory squeeze which saw the LibDems lose two seats.
Darren Johnson and Jenny Jones were re-elected and are now working hard in opposition to hold Mayor Boris Johnson to account.
For more on the campaign and Darren and Jenny's work see:
Local Elections 2008
In the 2008 local elections, the first Green Councillors were elected in Solihull and Cambridge, and Green gains were made in councils across the country:
Find out if you have a Green candidate in the local elections:Download the full list here (PDF 130KB) |
Results
- Local and Welsh Results 2011
- General Election Results 2010
- Local Election Results 2010
- European Election Results 2009
- Council Election Results 2009
Regions
