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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 Welsh Assembly elections.

Westminster elections

Summary performance

Year Candidates Total votes % of total vote Change Average vote[1] Average % vote Saved Deposits Number of MPs Change
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 1974 (Feb) 6 4,576 0.0% New 763 1.7% 0 0 Steady
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 1974 (Oct) 5 1,996 0.0% Steady 399 0.9% 0 0 Steady
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 1979 53 39,918 0.1% Increase0.1% 753 1.5% 0 0 Steady
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 1983 109 54,299 0.2% Increase0.1% 498 1.0% 0 0 Steady
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 1987 133 89,753 0.3% Increase0.1% 675 1.4% 0 0 Steady
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 1992 253 170,037 0.5% Increase0.2% 672 1.3% 0 0 Steady
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 1997 89 61,731 0.2% Decrease0.3% 694 1.3% 0 0 Steady
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2001 145 166,477 0.6% Increase0.4% 1,148 2.8% 10 0 Steady
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2005 182 257,758 1.0% Increase0.4% 1,416 3.2% 22 0 Steady
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2010 310 265,247 0.9% Decrease0.1% 855 1.8% 6 1 Increase1
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2015 573 1,111,603 3.6% Increase2.7% 2,018 4.3% 123 1 Steady
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2017 461 512,327 1.6% Decrease2.0% 1,126 2.1% 9 1 Steady

General election 2010

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

The Green Party stood in 571 seats across the UK in the 2015 general election.[3] They held Brighton Pavilion and came second place 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

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.

By-elections

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, as a mark of respect, they would not contest the 2016 Batley and Spen by-election.[9]

Year Constituency Candidate Votes % ± Notes
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 1983 Bermondsey George Hannah 45 0.2 Steady as Ecology Party
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 1990 Eastbourne David Aherne 553 1.2 Decrease0.4%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 1993 Newbury Jim Wallis 341 0.6 Decrease0.2%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2003 Brent East Noel Lynch 638 3.1 Decrease1.6%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2007 Sedgefield Christopher Haine 348 1.2 Steady
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2008 Haltemprice and Howden Shan Oakes 1,758 7.4 Steady Party placed 2nd
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2011 Oldham East and Saddleworth Peter Allen 530 1.5 Steady
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2011 Feltham and Heston Daniel Goldsmith 426 1.8 Increase0.7%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2012 Bradford West Dawud Islam 481 1.5 Decrease0.8%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2012 Manchester Central Tom Dylan 652 3.9 Increase1.6%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2012 Corby Jonathan Hornett 378 1.1 Steady
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2012 Cardiff South and Penarth Anthony Slaughter 800 4.1 Increase2.9%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2012 Croydon North Shasha Khan 855 3.5 Increase1.5%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2014 Wythenshawe and Sale East Nigel Woodcock 748 3.1 Steady
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2014 Newark David Kirwan 1,057 2.7 Steady
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2014 Clacton Chris Southall 688 1.9 Increase0.7%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2014 Heywood and Middleton Abi Jackson 870 3.1 Steady
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2014 Rochester and Strood Clive Gregory 1,692 4.2 Increase2.7%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2015 Oldham West and Royton Simeon Hart 249 0.9 Decrease1%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2015 Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough Christine Gilligan Kubo 938 4.2 Decrease0.1%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2016 Tooting Esther Obiri-Darko 830 2.6 Decrease1.5%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2016 Witney Larry Sanders 1,363 3.5 Decrease1.6%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2017 Copeland Jack Lenox 515 1.7 Decrease1.3%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2017 Stoke-on-Trent Central Adam Colclough 294 1.4 Decrease2.2%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2018 Lewisham East Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah 788 3.6 Increase1.9%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2019 Newport West Amelia Womack 924 3.9 Increase2.8

European Parliament elections

Summary performance

Year Votes won % of Votes Change MEPs elected Change Note
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 1979 17,953 0.1 New 0 Steady as Ecology Party
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 1984 70,853 0.5 Increase0.4 0 Steady as Ecology Party
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 1989 2,299,287 14.5 Increase14.0 0 Steady as Green Party (UK). Best Green result ever.
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 1994 471,269 3.0 Decrease11.5 0 Steady [10]
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 1999 568,236 5.3 Increase2.3 2 Increase2 First two MEPs elected
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2004 1,033,093 5.6 Increase0.3 2 Steady
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2009 1,223,303 7.8 Increase2.2 2 Steady
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2014 1,136,670 6.9 Decrease0.9 3 Increase1 First seat gain since 1999

European Parliament election 2009

Main article: European Parliament election, 2009 (United Kingdom)

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%,[11] but it failed to gain any extra MEPs.[12][non-primary source needed]

The regional breakdown of the vote was as follows:

Constituency Candidates Votes[13] % ±%
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | East Midlands Sue Blount, Richard Mallender, Ashley Baxter, Matthew Follett, Barney Smith 83,939 6.8 Increase1.4
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | East of England Rupert Read, Peter Lynn, James Abbott, Marc Scheimann, Angela Thomson, Andrew Stringer, Amy Drayson 141,016 8.8 Increase3.2
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | London Jean Lambert MEP, Ute Michel, Shahrar Ali, Joseph Healy, Miranda Dunn, Shasha Khan, George Graham, Priya Shah 190,589 10.9 Increase2.5
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | North East England Shirley Ford, Iris Ryder, Nic Best 34,081 5.8 Increase1.0
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | North West England Peter Cranie, Maria Whitelegg, Ruth Bergan, Samir Chatterjee, Jill Perry, Justine Hall, Margaret Westbrook, Geoff Smith 127,133 7.7 Increase2.1
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 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 Increase3.8
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | South West England Ricky Knight, Roger Creagh-Osborne, Molly Scott Cato, Richard Lawson, Chloë Somers, David Taylor 144,179 9.3 Increase2.1
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | West Midlands Felicity Norman, Peter Tinsley, Chris Williams, Ian Davison, Vicky Dunn, Dave Wall 88,244 6.2 Increase1.1
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Yorkshire and the Humber Martin Hemingway, Shan Oakes, Leslie Rowe, Kevin Warnes, Lesley Hedges, Steve Barnard 104,456 8.5 Increase2.8
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Wales Jake Griffiths, Kay Roney, Ann Were, John Matthews 38,160 5.6 Increase2.0

European Parliament election 2014

Main article: European Parliament election, 2014 (United Kingdom)

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.[14]

The regional breakdown of the vote was as follows:

Constituency Candidates Votes[15] % ±%
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | East Midlands Katharina Boettge, Sue Mallender, Richard Mallender, Peter Allen, Simon Hales 67,066 6.0 Decrease0.9
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | East of England Rupert Read, Mark Ereira-Guyer, Jill Mills, Ash Haynes, Marc Scheimann, Robert Lindsay, Fiona Radic 133,331 8.5 Decrease0.3
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | London Jean Lambert MEP, Caroline Allen, Haroon Saad, Shahrar Ali, Danny Bates, Tracey Hague, Violeta Vajda, Amelia Womack 196,419 8.9 Decrease2.0
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | North East England Shirley Ford, Alison Whalley, Caroline Robinson 31,605 5.2 Decrease0.6
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | North West England Peter Cranie, Gina Dowding, Laura Bannister, Jill Perry, John Knight, Ulrike Zeshan, Lewis Coyne, Jake Welsh 123,075 7.0 Decrease0.7
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 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 Decrease2.6
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | South West England Molly Scott Cato, Emily McIvor, Ricky Knight, Audaye Elesedy, Judy Maciejowska, Mark Chivers 166,447 11.1 Increase1.8
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | West Midlands Will Duckworth, Aldo Mussi, Vicky Duckworth, Tom Harris, Karl Macnaughton, Duncan Kerr, Laura Katherine Vesty 71,464 5.3 Decrease0.9
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Yorkshire and the Humber Andrew Cooper, Shan Oakes, Dr Vicky Dunn, Denise Craghill, Martin Hemingway, Kevin Warnes 102,282 7.9 Decrease0.6
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Wales Pippa Bartolotti, John Matthews, Chris Were, Rosemary Cutler 33,275 4.5 Decrease1.0

London Local elections

Date Councillors Councils Votes
Seats Change Councils Change Votes won % Votes Change
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 1990 0 Steady 0 Steady 141,569 5.9 Increase4.7
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 1994 0 Steady 0 Steady 48,798 2.2 Decrease3.7
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 1998 2 Increase2 0 Steady 50,732 2.9 Increase0.7
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2002 1 Decrease1 0 Steady 95,394 5.5 Increase2.6
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2006 12 Increase11 0 Steady 169,160 7.9 Increase2.4
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2010 2 Decrease10 0 Steady 248,175 6.6 Decrease1.3
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2014 4 Increase2 0 Steady 246,805 9.8 Increase3.2
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2018 11 Increase7 0 Steady 210,881 8.6 Decrease1.2

London Assembly elections

Date FPTP Vote % of Vote Change List Vote % of Vote Change AMs Change
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2000 162,457 10.2 N/A 183,910 11.1 N/A 3 N/A
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2004 138,242 7.7 Decrease2.5 160,445 8.6 Decrease2.5 2 Decrease1
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2008 194,059 8.1 Increase0.4 203,465 8.3 Decrease0.3 2 Steady
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2012 188,623 8.5 Increase0.5 189,215 8.5 Increase0.1 2 Steady
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2016 236,809 9.1 Increase0.5 207,959 8.0 Decrease0.6 2 Steady

London Mayoral elections

Date Candidate Popular Vote % of Vote Change Place
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2000 Darren Johnson 38,121 2.2 N/A 6th
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2004 Darren Johnson 57,332 3.1 Increase0.9 7th
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2008 Sian Berry 77,347 3.2 Increase0.1 4th
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2012 Jenny Jones 98,913 4.5 Increase1.3 3rd
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2016 Sian Berry 150,673 5.8 Increase1.3 3rd

Wales Green Party election results

Welsh Assembly elections

Date FPTP Vote % of Vote Change List Vote % of Vote Change AMs Change
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 1999 1,002 0.1 N/A 25,858 2.5 N/A 0 N/A
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2003 — — Decrease0.1 30,028 3.5 Increase1.0 0 Steady
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2007 — — Steady 33,803 3.5 Steady 0 Steady
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2011 1,514 0.2 Increase0.2 32,649 3.4 Decrease0.1 0 Steady
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | 2016 25,202 2.5 Increase2.3 30,211 3.0 Decrease0.4 0 Steady

2016

In September 2015 Amelia Womack, Deputy Leader of GPEW, announced her intention to stand in the National Assembly elections for Wales Green Party. [16] Wales Green Party who create their own set of devolved policies around devolved issues in Wales were hopeful of gaining three Assembly seats from the proportional representation lists in the 2016 elections.[17] In the event, they won none, their vote share fell by 0.4%, and the party dropped to seventh place, behind the single-issue Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party. It was the party's worst result since 1999.

Region Number of Votes Proportion of Votes Change Candidates
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Mid and West Wales 8,222 3.8% Decrease 0.3% Alice Hooker Stroud, Grenville Ham, Pippa Pemberton, Frances Bryant, Brian Dafydd Williams
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | North Wales 4,789 2.3% Steady Duncan Rees, Martin Bennewith, Petra Haig, Gerry Wolff
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | South Wales Central 7,949 3.4% Decrease 1.8% Amelia Womack, Anthony Slaughter, Hannah Pudner, Chris von Ruhland
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | South Wales East 4,831 2.5% Decrease 0.2% Pippa Bartolotti, Ann Were, Chris Were, Katy Beddoe, Andrew Creak
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | South Wales West 4,420 2.6% Steady Lisa Rapado, Charlotte Barlow, Laurence Brophy, Mike Whittall, Russell Kennedy, Thomas Muller

2011

The Wales Green Party again fielded candidates in all 5 top-up regions for the 2011 election. For the first time since 1999, the Greens also stood in a constituency - they once again opted to stand in Ceredigion.

During the 2011 campaign, they specifically targeted Labour voters with the aim of persuading them to use their regional list vote for the Greens, using the slogan "2nd vote Green". They claimed that Labour list votes were "wasted" and that over 70,000 votes in South Wales Central went "in the bin at every election" as Labour had never won a top-up seat in that region.[18]

On this occasion, South Wales Central was the region the party targeted. The region includes Cardiff, with its large student population, and also the constituency of Cardiff Central, the only Liberal Democrat-Labour marginal seat in Wales. Welsh Green leader and South Wales Central candidate Jake Griffiths stated they were also aiming to attract disaffected Liberal Democrat voters in the region.[19]

The Greens polled 32,649 votes, 3.4% of the total votes cast for the regional lists.[20] In South Wales Central, they took over 10,000 votes, 5.2% of the total, though they were still almost 6,000 votes away from winning a seat. The regional results were as follows:

Region Number of Votes Proportion of Votes Change Candidates
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Mid and West Wales[21] 8,660 4.1% Increase 0.1% Leila Kiersch, Marilyn Elson
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | North Wales[22] 4,406 2.3% Decrease 0.6% Dorienne Robinson, Timothy Foster, Peter Haig
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | South Wales Central[23] 10,774 5.2% Increase 1.4% Jake Griffiths, Sam Coates, John Matthews, Matt Townsend, Teleri Clark
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | South Wales East[24] 4,857 2.7% Decrease 0.2% Chris Were, Pippa Bartolotti, Owen Clarke, Alyson Ayland, Alan Williams
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | South Wales West[25] 3,952 2.6% Decrease 1.2% Keith Ross, Huw Evans, Andy Chyba, Delyth Miller

In Ceredigion, Chris Simpson polled 1,514 votes, or 5.2%. He came fifth out of five candidates.[26]

2007

In 2007, the party again fielded a list of candidates in each of the top-up regions but no candidates for the constituencies. The Wales Green Party proposed that Wales should "be at the forefront of....a green industrial revolution". The party targeted South Wales West - the region where they had performed best in 2003.[27]

The Welsh Greens polled 33,803 votes, or 3.5% of the total, a slight decrease on 2003.[28] The party failed to win any seats, with their best performance this time being Mid and West Wales with 4.0% of the vote. In South Wales West their vote declined by one percentage point, their worst result of the five regions.

Region Number of Votes Proportion of Votes Change Candidates
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Mid and West Wales[29] 8,768 4.0% Decrease 0.1% Leila Kiersch, Moth Foster, Marilyn Elson, John Jennings
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | North Wales[30] 5,660 2.9% Increase 0.4% Jim Killock, Joe Blakesley, Maredudd ap Rheinallt, Wilf Hastings
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | South Wales Central[31] 7,831 3.8% Increase 0.4% John Matthews, Richard Payne, David Pierce, Nigel Baker
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | South Wales East[32] 5,414 2.8% Decrease 0.3% Ann Were, Alasdair McGowen, Gerry Layton, Owen Clarke
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | South Wales West[33] 6,130 3.8% Decrease 1.0% Rhodri Griffiths, Brig Oubridge, Jane Richmond, Jonathan Spink

2003

In the 2003 election, the party again fielded a list of candidates for each of the electoral regions but this time stood no candidates for the constituencies. The Welsh Greens failed to win any seats, polling 30,028 votes, or 3.5%. Their best performance was in South Wales West where they polled 6,696 votes, or 4.8% of the total.

Region Number of Votes Proportion of Votes Change Candidates
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Mid and West Wales[34] 7,794 4.2% Increase 0.7% Dorienne Robinson, Molly Scott Cato, Timothy Foster, Reg Taylor, Christopher Cato
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | North Wales[35] 4,200 2.4% Increase 0.2% Klaus Armstrong-Brown, John Walker, Jeremy Hart, Wilfred Hastings, Gilly Boyd, Jim Killock
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | South Wales Central[36] 6,047 3.3% Increase 0.9% John Matthews, Lynn Farr, Jan Tucker, Sylvia Latham, Paul Beswick
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | South Wales East[37] 5,291 3.1% Increase 1.1% Peter Varley, Ann Were, Owen Clarke, Ernie Hamer, Gealdine Layton, Teresa Telfer, Matthew Wooton
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | South Wales West[38] 6,696 4.8% Increase 2.4% Martin Shrewsbury, Jan Cliff, Rhodri Griffiths, Steve Clegg, Deborah James, Tony Young

1999

In the 1999 inaugural election for the National Assembly, the Welsh Greens stood candidates in all five electoral regions used to elect "top-up" members of the assembly. Additionally, one candidate stood for the constituency seat of Ceredigion. The party stated that they aimed to poll around 7% of the vote and win at least one top-up seat.[39]

The Welsh Greens ultimately polled 25,858 votes in the regional lists, 2.5% of the total, and 1,002 constituency votes (3.1%) in Ceredigion. No Welsh Greens were elected.[40]

Region Number of Votes Proportion of Votes Candidates
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Mid and West Wales[41] 7,718 3.5% Dave Bradney, Sarah Scott-Cato, Sue Walker, Timothy Shaw, Timothy Foster
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | North Wales[42] 4,667 2.2% Jim Killock, Christopher Busby, Robin Welch, Klaus Armstrong-Brown, Angela Loveridge, Alexandra Plows, Kathryn Turner, Gwilym Morus, Sarah Collick
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | South Wales Central[43] 5,336 2.5% Kevin Jakeway, John Matthews, Vivien Turner, Chris Von Ruhland
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | South Wales East[44] 4,055 2.0% Roger Coghill, Kevin Williams, Steve Ainley, Elaine Ross, Owen Clarke
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | South Wales West[45] 4,082 2.4% Graham Oubridge, Lee Turner, Janet Evans, Simon Phillips

UK Parliament elections

2015

In the 2015 UK general election, the Wales Green Party again failed to gain any MPs, but did retain their deposits in three constituencies, having achieved 5% or more of the vote. The party stood candidates in 35 of the 40 constituencies in Wales, far exceeding previous efforts. Leader at the time, Pippa Bartolotti, declared 2015 a 'record breaking year'[46] for the party. The results for the party's candidates in Wales, in alphabetical order of constituency, were as follows:

Constituency Candidate Number of Votes Proportion of Votes Turnout
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Aberavon Jonathan Tier 711 2.3% 63.3%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Aberconwy Petra Haig 727 2.4% 66.2%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Alyn and Deeside Alasdair Ibbotson 976 2.4% 66.6%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Blaenau Gwent Mark Pond 738 2.3% 61.7%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Brecon and Radnorshire Chris Carmichael 1,261 3.1% 73.8%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Bridgend Tony White 736 1.9% 65.8%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Caerphilly Katy Beddoe 937 2.3% 63.3%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Cardiff Central Chris von Ruhland 2,461 6.4% 67.3%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Cardiff North Ruth Osner 1,254 2.5% 76.1%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Cardiff South & Penarth Anthony Slaughter 1,746 3.7% 61.4%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Cardiff West Ken Barker 1,704 3.9% 65.6%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Carmarthen East and Dinefwr Ben Rice 1,091 2.8% 70.9%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire Gary Tapley 1,290 3.2% 69.8%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Ceredigion Daniel Thompson 2,088 5.6% 69.0%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Clwyd South Duncan Rees 915 2.6% 63.8%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Cynon Valley John Matthews 799 2.6% 59.3%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Delyn Kay Roney 680 1.8% 69.8%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Dwyfor Meirionnydd Marc Fothergill 981 3.4% 65.1%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Gower Julia Marshall 1,161 2.7% 69.2%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Islwyn Peter Varley 659 1.9% 63.6%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Llanelli Guy Smith 689 1.8% 64.5%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney Elspeth Parris 603 1.8% 53.0%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Monmouth Christopher Were 1,629 3.4% 76.2%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Montgomeryshire Richard Chaloner 1,260 3.7% 76.2%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Neath Catrin Brock 1,185 3.2% 66.2%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Newport East David Mclean 887 2.5% 62.7%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Newport West Pippa Bartolotti 1,272 3.2% 64.9%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Ogmore Laurie Brophy 754 2.1% 63.7%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Pontypridd Katy Clay 992 2.6% 64.3%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Preseli Pembrokeshire Frances Bryant 1,452 3.6% 70.7%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Rhondda Lisa Rapado 453 1.4% 60.9%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Swansea West Ashley Wakeling 1,784 5.1% 59.8%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Torfaen Matt Cooke 746 2.0% 61.3%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Vale of Glamorgan Alan Armstrong 1,054 2.1% 71.1%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Wrexham David Munnerly 669 2.0% 64.2%
Total 35 (out of 40) 38,344
Mean 1095.5 2.9% 66.0%
2010

In the 2010 UK general election, the Wales Green Party again failed to gain any MPs. The results for the party's candidates in Wales, in alphabetical order of constituency, were as follows:

Constituency Candidate Number of Votes Proportion of Votes Turnout
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Brecon and Radnorshire Dorienne Robinson 341 0.9% 72.5%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Cardiff Central Sam Coates 575 1.6% 59.1%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Cardiff North Chris von Ruhland 362 0.8% 72.7%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Cardiff South & Penarth Matthew Townsend 554 1.2% 60.2%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Cardiff West Jake Griffiths 750 1.8% 65.2%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Ceredigion Leila Kiersch 696 1.8% 64.8%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Monmouth Steve Millson 587 1.3% 72.2%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Newport West Pippa Bartolotti 450 1.1% 64.8%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Pontypridd John Matthews 361 1.0% 63.0%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Swansea East Tony Young 318 1.0% 54.6%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Swansea West Keith Ross 404 1.1% 58.0%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Torfaen Owen Clarke 438 1.2% 61.5%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Vale of Glamorgan Rhodri H. Thomas 457 0.9% 69.3%
Total 13 (out of 40) 6,293
Mean 484.1 1.2% 64.45%
2005

In the 2005 UK general election, the Wales Green Party failed to gain any MPs or retain any deposits. The results for the party's candidates in Wales, in alphabetical order of constituency, were as follows:

Constituency Candidate Number of Votes Proportion of Votes Turnout
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Aberavon Miranda La Vey 510 1.7% 58.9%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Bridgend Jonathan Spink 595 1.6% 59.2%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Cardiff South & Penarth John Matthews 729 2.0% 56.2%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Ceredigion Dave Bradney 846 2.4% 67.2%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Conwy Jim Killock 512 1.5% 62.3%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Gower Rhodri Griffiths 1,029 2.6% 64.9%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Neath Susan Jay Green 658 1.8% 62.2%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Newport West Peter Varley 540 1.5% 59.3%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Preseli Pembrokeshire Molly Scott Cato 494 1.3% 69.5%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Swansea East Tony Young 493 1.6% 52.4%
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Swansea West Martyn Shrewsbury 738 2.2% 57.1%
Total 11 (out of 40) 7,144
Mean 649.5 1.8% 60.8%

European Parliament elections

2014

The Wales Green Party nominated four candidates for the European Parliament election, 2014.[47]

  • Pippa Bartolotti
  • John Matthews
  • Roz Cutler
  • Christopher Were
2009

In the European Parliament election, 2009 (United Kingdom), the Welsh party failed to gain any seats in the European Parliament, but increased the vote to 5.6% for the four Welsh seats.

2004

In the 2004 elections, the Welsh party failed to gain any seats in the European Parliament (with 3.6% of the vote for the four Welsh seats) and lost their only county council seat (of Klaus Armstrong-Braun in Flintshire).

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