Green Party (UK) 54,299 votes. 1985 was a time of political change in the UK. After the formation of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), there were noises being made that the UK needed a "green" party. In response to the rumours that a group of Liberal Party activists were about to launch a UK 'Green Party', HELP (the Hackney Local Ecology Party) registered the name "The Green Party," with a green circle, designed by Steve O’Brien, as its logo. The first public meeting, chaired by David Fitzpatrick (then an Ecology Party speaker), was 13 June 1985 in Hackney Town Hall. Paul Ekins (then
Unparty: The Consensus-Building Party Unparty: The Consensus-Building Party Unparty: The Consensus-Building Party (formerly the People's Senate Party) is a political party in British Columbia. It was registered on September 20, 2011, and changed its name from People's Senate Party to Unparty in August 2012. The main plank of the party's platform is the promotion of consensus governance over adversarial party politics. Unparty wants to see meetings held on political issues at the local level that employ consensus decision-making techniques, and for Members of the Legislative Assembly to bring those policy decisions to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in Victoria. The party nominated two