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
Avante (political party) representatives and 0.7% of the national vote (642,422 votes). At the 2014 election, the party won two seats and 0.85% of the vote in the Chamber of Deputies; it gained one seat following the defection of from the Social Christian Party. The party has 534 local councillors and controls 26 mayoralties. PTdoB voted in favor of the Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff. In 2017, PTdoB changed its name to AVANTE, Portuguese for Forward. For the Brazilian general election of 2018 AVANTE joined the coalition "Sovereign Brazil", together with the Democratic Labour Party, in support of PTD candidate Ciro Gomes. Gomes obtained