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Green Party of England and Wales election results

This article lists the election results of the Green Party of England and Wales (and its predecessors) in the UK parliamentary, European parliamentary, London Assembly, and Senedd elections.

Westminster elections edit

Summary performance edit

Year Candidates Total votes % of
total vote
Change Average
vote[1]
Average
% vote
Saved
deposits
No. of MPs Change Notes
1974 (Feb) 6 4,576 0.0% New 763 1.7% 0 0   as PEOPLE Party
1974 (Oct) 5 1,996 0.0%   399 0.9% 0 0   as PEOPLE Party
1979 53 39,918 0.1%  0.1% 753 1.5% 0 0   as Ecology Party
1983 109 54,299 0.2%  0.1% 498 1.0% 0 0   as Ecology Party
1987 133 89,753 0.3%  0.1% 675 1.4% 0 0   as Green Party (UK)
1992 253 170,037 0.5%  0.2% 672 1.3% 0 0  
1997 89 61,731 0.2%  0.3% 694 1.3% 0 0  
2001 145 166,477 0.6%  0.4% 1,148 2.8% 10 0  
2005 182 257,758 1.0%  0.4% 1,416 3.2% 22 0  
2010 310 265,247 0.9%  0.1% 855 1.8% 6 1  1
2015 538 1,111,603 3.8%  2.9% 2,066 4.3% 123 1  
2017 457 525,565 1.6%  2.2% 1,150 2.1% 8 1  
2019 472 865,715 2.7%  1.1% 1,834 3.6% 29 1  

General election 2010 edit

The 2010 general election[2] was a milestone for the Green Party as party leader Caroline Lucas was elected Britain's first Green MP in Brighton Pavilion with 31.3% of the vote. The Green Party fielded 310 candidates, six of whom saved their deposits. Green candidates came 4th in Norwich South, Hove, Brighton Kemptown, Cambridge and Lewisham Deptford. Overall the Green party received 1.0% of votes in the General election.

General election 2015 edit

The Green Party stood in 571 seats across the UK in the 2015 general election.[3] They held Brighton Pavilion and came second in Bristol West, Liverpool Riverside, Manchester Gorton and Sheffield Central, with third places in 17 constituencies.[4]

It was the first time the party garnered more than one million votes in a general election.[5] Deposits were saved in 123 constituencies, where the Green candidate collected at least 5% of the votes cast.[6]

General election 2017 edit

In the 2017 general election, Green candidates stood in 457 seats across the UK, standing down in some seats to enable tactical voting.

Deposits were saved in 8 seats: Brighton Pavilion (seat held), Isle of Wight, Buckingham, Bristol West, Sheffield Central, Skipton & Ripon, North Herefordshire and North East Hertfordshire (their sister party, the Scottish Green Party, also saved one deposit in Glasgow North). This was down from 123 saved deposits in 2015. The party lost over half its vote compared to 2015, falling from 1,156,149 votes (3.8%) to 524,604 (1.6%). The party also saw significant declines in its share of the vote in target seats, such as in Bristol West (-13.9%), Norwich South (-11%), and Sheffield Central (-7.8%). It also fell behind Labour in the Isle of Wight. In total, the Green vote fell in 561 constituencies, and rose in 22.

General election 2019 edit

In the 2019 general election, Green candidates stood in 469 seats across England and Wales, standing down in several seats to enable tactical voting, including 50 constituencies as part of the Unite to Remain campaign. Deposits were saved in 29 seats, up from the eight saved in the 2017 election. As well as holding the seat of Brighton Pavilion, the party came second in two seats (Bristol West and Dulwich and West Norwood) and third in 12 constituencies.

By-elections edit

The party came second in the 2008 Haltemprice and Howden by-election, although unusually Labour and the Liberal Democrats did not stand candidates.

The Richmond Green Party voted against standing in the 2016 Richmond Park by-election and to back the Liberal Democrat candidate.[7] On 3 November, the Kingston Green Party did the same, and confirmed that there would not be a Green Party candidate in the by-election.[8]

The Party stated that following the murder of the incumbent MP Jo Cox that, as a mark of respect, that it would not contest the 2016 Batley and Spen by-election.[9] Similarly, following the murder of the incumbent MP David Amess, the Green Party stated that it would not contest the 2022 Southend West by-election.[10]

Year Constituency Candidate Votes % ± Notes
1976 Walsall North Jonathan Tyler 181 0.5   Debut of the Ecology Party at a UK by-election.
1979 Manchester Central John Foster 129 1.2   Stood as Ecology Party.
1979 South West Hertfordshire Nigel Jeskins 602 1.6   Stood as Ecology Party.
1980 Glasgow Central David Mellor 45 0.6   Stood as Ecology Party.
1981 Warrington Neil Chantrell 219 0.8   Stood as Ecology Party.
1981 Croydon North West John Foster 155 0.4   Stood as Ecology Party.
1983 Bermondsey George Hannah 45 0.2   Stood as Ecology Party.
1987 Greenwich Graham Bell 264 0.8   Debut of a Green Party (UK) candidate at a UK by-election.
1988 Kensington Phylip Hobson 572 2.4  0.7% Phylip Hobson was only 19yrs old at the time of the election when the minimum age for an MP was 21.
1990 Knowsley South Richard Georgeson 656 3.1   Debut of Green Party of England and Wales at a UK by-election.
1990 Eastbourne David Aherne 553 1.2  0.4%
1993 Newbury Jim Wallis 341 0.6  0.2%
1999 Kensington and Chelsea Hugo Charlton 446 2.3  
2000 Tottenham Peter Budge 606 3.7  0.9%
2000 Preston Richard Merrick 441 2.1  
2001 Ipswich Tony Slade 255 0.9  
2002 Ogmore Jonathan Spink 250 1.4  
2003 Brent East Noel Lynch 638 3.1  1.6%
2004 Hartlepool Iris Ryder 255 0.8  
2006 Bromley and Chislehurst Ann Garrett 811 2.8  0.4%
2007 Ealing Southall Sarah Edwards 1,135 3.1  1.5%
2007 Sedgefield Christopher Haine 348 1.2  
2008 Crewe and Nantwich Robert Smith 359 0.9  
2008 Henley Mark Stevenson 1,321 3.8  0.5%
2008 Haltemprice and Howden Shan Oakes 1,758 7.4   Party placed 2nd
2009 Norwich North Rupert Read 3,350 9.7  7.0%
2011 Oldham East and Saddleworth Peter Allen 530 1.5  
2011 Feltham and Heston Daniel Goldsmith 426 1.8  0.7%
2012 Bradford West Dawud Islam 481 1.5  0.8%
2012 Manchester Central Tom Dylan 652 3.9  1.6%
2012 Corby Jonathan Hornett 378 1.1  
2012 Cardiff South and Penarth Anthony Slaughter 800 4.1  2.9%
2012 Croydon North Shasha Khan 855 3.5  1.5%
2014 Wythenshawe and Sale East Nigel Woodcock 748 3.1  
2014 Newark David Kirwan 1,057 2.7  
2014 Clacton Chris Southall 688 1.9  0.7%
2014 Heywood and Middleton Abi Jackson 870 3.1  
2014 Rochester and Strood Clive Gregory 1,692 4.2  2.7%
2015 Oldham West and Royton Simeon Hart 249 0.9  1%
2015 Ogmore Laurie Brophy 754 2.1  
2015 Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough Christine Gilligan Kubo 938 4.2  0.1%
2016 Tooting Esther Obiri-Darko 830 2.6  1.5%
2016 Witney Larry Sanders 1,363 3.5  1.6%
2017 Copeland Jack Lenox 515 1.7  1.3%
2017 Stoke-on-Trent Central Adam Colclough 294 1.4  2.2%
2018 Lewisham East Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah 788 3.6  1.9%
2019 Newport West Amelia Womack 924 3.9  2.8%
2019 Peterborough Joseph Wells 1,035 3.1  1.3%
2021 Hartlepool Rachel Featherstone 358 1.2  
2021 Chesham and Amersham Carolyne Culver 1,480 3.9  1.6%
2021 Old Bexley and Sidcup Jonathan Rooks 830 3.8  0.6%
2021 North Shropshire Duncan Kerr 1,738 4.6  1.4%
2022 Birmingham Erdington Siobhan Harper-Nunes 236 1.4  0.4%
2022 Tiverton and Honiton Gill Westcott 1,064 2.5  1.3%
2022 Wakefield Ashley Routh 587 2.1  2.1%
2022 City of Chester Paul Bowers 987 3.5  0.9%
2022 Stretford & Urmston Dan Jerrome 789 4.3  1.6%
2023 West Lancashire Peter Cranie 646 2.8  0.4%
2023 Selby & Ainsty Arnold Warneken 1,838 5.1  1.9%
2023 Somerton & Frome Martin Dimery 3,944 10.2  5.1% Largest ever vote share for the Green Party at a by-election
2023 Uxbridge & South Ruislip Sarah Green 893 2.9  0.7%
2023 Mid Bedfordshire Cade Sibley 732 1.8  2.0%
2023 Tamworth Sue Howarth 417 1.6  0.4%
2024 Kingswood Lorraine Francis 1,450 5.8  3.4% Deposit retained
2024 Wellingborough Will Morris 1,020 3.4  0.1%
2024 Rochdale Guy Otten[a] 436 1.4  0.7%

European Parliament elections edit

Summary performance edit

Year Votes won % of Votes Change MEPs elected Change Note
1979 17,953 0.1 New 0   as Ecology Party
1984 70,853 0.5  0.4 0   as Ecology Party
1989 2,299,287 14.5  14.0 0   as Green Party (UK). Highest ever Green result in the UK.
1994 471,269 3.0  11.5 0   [11]
1999 568,236 5.3  2.3 2  2 First two MEPs elected
2004 1,033,093 5.6  0.3 2  
2009 1,223,303 7.8  2.2 2  
2014 1,136,670 6.9  0.9 3  1 First seat gain since 1999
2019 1,881,306 11.8  4.9 7  4 Highest number of Green MEPs elected, best Green Party E&W result ever.

European Parliament election 2009 edit

In the June 2009 European Parliament election the party secured 1,223,303 votes or 7.8% of the popular vote compared to its 2004 vote share of 5.6%. Green MEPs Caroline Lucas in the South East and Jean Lambert in London were re-elected. The Greens came first in Norwich with 25%, Oxford with 26% and Brighton and Hove with 31%,[12] but it failed to gain any extra MEPs.[13][non-primary source needed]

The regional breakdown of the vote was as follows:

Constituency Candidates Votes[14] % ±%
East Midlands Sue Blount, Richard Mallender, Ashley Baxter, Matthew Follett, Barney Smith 83,939 6.8  1.4
East of England Rupert Read, Peter Lynn, James Abbott, Marc Scheimann, Angela Thomson, Andrew Stringer, Amy Drayson 141,016 8.8  3.2
London Jean Lambert MEP, Ute Michel, Shahrar Ali, Joseph Healy, Miranda Dunn, Shasha Khan, George Graham, Priya Shah 190,589 10.9  2.5
North East England Shirley Ford, Iris Ryder, Nic Best 34,081 5.8  1.0
North West England Peter Cranie, Maria Whitelegg, Ruth Bergan, Samir Chatterjee, Jill Perry, Justine Hall, Margaret Westbrook, Geoff Smith 127,133 7.7  2.1
South East England Caroline Lucas MEP, Keith Taylor, Derek Wall, Miriam Kennet, Jason Kitcat, Hazel Dawe, Jonathan Essex, Matthew Ledbury, Steve Dawe, Beverley Golden 271,506 11.6  3.8
South West England Ricky Knight, Roger Creagh-Osborne, Molly Scott Cato, Richard Lawson, Chloë Somers, David Taylor 144,179 9.3  2.1
West Midlands Felicity Norman, Peter Tinsley, Chris Williams, Ian Davison, Vicky Dunn, Dave Wall 88,244 6.2  1.1
Yorkshire and the Humber Martin Hemingway, Shan Oakes, Leslie Rowe, Kevin Warnes, Lesley Hedges, Steve Barnard 104,456 8.5  2.8
Wales Jake Griffiths, Kay Roney, Ann Were, John Matthews 38,160 5.6  2.0

European Parliament election 2014 edit

In the 2014 election, the Greens gained a seat for the first time since 1999, with Molly Scott Cato being elected as MEP for South West England, where the party's vote share rose by 1.8%. However, the party's vote fell in every other region, and there was media speculation that the party had only gained a seat in the South West as a result of An Independence from Europe dividing the UK Independence Party vote.[15]

The regional breakdown of the vote was as follows:

Constituency Candidates Votes[16] % ±%
East Midlands Katharina Boettge, Sue Mallender, Richard Mallender, Peter Allen, Simon Hales 67,066 6.0  0.9
East of England Rupert Read, Mark Ereira-Guyer, Jill Mills, Ash Haynes, Marc Scheimann, Robert Lindsay, Fiona Radic 133,331 8.5  0.3
London Jean Lambert MEP, Caroline Allen, Haroon Saad, Shahrar Ali, Danny Bates, Tracey Hague, Violeta Vajda, Amelia Womack 196,419 8.9  2.0
North East England Shirley Ford, Alison Whalley, Caroline Robinson 31,605 5.2  0.6
North West England Peter Cranie, Gina Dowding, Laura Bannister, Jill Perry, John Knight, Ulrike Zeshan, Lewis Coyne, Jake Welsh 123,075 7.0  0.7
South East England Keith Taylor, Alexandra Phillips, Derek Wall, Jason Kitcat, Miriam Kennet, Beverley Golden, Jonathan Essex, Jonathan Kent, Stuart Jeffrey, Ray Cunningham 211,706 9.1  2.6
South West England Molly Scott Cato, Emily McIvor, Ricky Knight, Audaye Elesedy, Judy Maciejowska, Mark Chivers 166,447 11.1  1.8
West Midlands Will Duckworth, Aldo Mussi, Vicky Duckworth, Tom Harris, Karl Macnaughton, Duncan Kerr, Laura Katherine Vesty 71,464 5.3  0.9
Yorkshire and the Humber Andrew Cooper, Shan Oakes, Dr Vicky Dunn, Denise Craghill, Martin Hemingway, Kevin Warnes 102,282 7.9  0.6
Wales Pippa Bartolotti, John Matthews, Chris Were, Rosemary Cutler 33,275 4.5  1.0

European Parliament election 2019 edit

Local elections edit

The 2023 United Kingdom local elections were the best ever results for the Green Party.[17] The 2024 United Kingdom local elections were the seventh year in a row of green gains with a new record high of 809 councillors on 174 councils.

Date Councillors Councils Votes
Seats Change Councils Change Votes won % Votes Change
2019 265  194 0 No Change
2021 151  88 0 No Change
2022 124  71 0 No Change
2023 481  241 1  1
2024 181  74 0 No Change

London elections edit

London local elections edit

Date Councillors Councils Votes
Seats Change Councils Change Votes won % Votes Change
1990 0   0   141,569 5.9  4.7
1994 0   0   48,798 2.2  3.7
1998 2  2 0   50,732 2.9  0.7
2002 1  1 0   95,394 5.5  2.6
2006 12  11 0   169,160 7.9  2.4
2010 2  10 0   248,175 6.6  1.3
2014 4  2 0   246,805 9.8  3.2
2018 11  7 0   210,881 8.6  1.2
2022 18  7 0  

London Assembly elections edit

Date FPTP Vote % of Vote Change List Vote % of Vote Change AMs Change
2000 162,457 10.2 N/A 183,910 11.1 N/A 3 N/A
2004 138,242 7.7  2.5 160,445 8.6  2.5 2  1
2008 194,059 8.1  0.4 203,465 8.3  0.3 2  
2012 188,623 8.5  0.5 189,215 8.5  0.1 2  
2016 236,809 9.1  0.5 207,959 8.0  0.6 2  
2021 336,840 13.0  3.9 305,452 11.8  3.8 3  1

London Mayoral elections edit

Date Candidate Popular Vote % of Vote Change Place
2000 Darren Johnson 38,121 2.2 N/A 6th
2004 Darren Johnson 57,332 3.1  0.9 7th
2008 Siân Berry 77,347 3.2  0.1 4th
2012 Jenny Jones 98,913 4.5  1.3 3rd
2016 Siân Berry 150,673 5.8  1.3 3rd
2021 Siân Berry 197,976 7.8  2.0 3rd

Wales Green Party election results edit

Welsh Assembly/Senedd elections edit

Date FPTP Vote % of Vote Change List Vote % of Vote Change AMs Change
1999 1,002 0.1 N/A 25,858 2.5 N/A 0 N/A
2003  0.1 30,028 3.5  1.0 0  
2007   33,803 3.5   0  
2011 1,514 0.2  0.2 32,649 3.4  0.1 0  
2016 25,202 2.5  2.3 30,211 3.0  0.4 0  
2021 17,817 1.6  0.9 48,714 4.4  1.4 0