Green Party of England and Wales elections in England and Wales, the Green Party in Brighton and Hove took minority control of the City Council by winning 23 seats, 5 short of an overall majority. At the 2012 local government elections the Green Party gained 5 seats, and retained both AMs at the 2012 London Assembly election. At the London Mayoral Election the party's candidate Jenny Jones finished third, and lost her deposit. In May 2012, Lucas announced that she would not seek re-election to the post of party leader. In September, Natalie Bennett was elected party leader and Will Duckworth deputy leader in the leadership
Amanda Bennett Prize Board. In 2010, she was elected co-chair of the Pulitzer Board. She is on the board of the Loeb Awards; the board of the Fund for Investigative Journalism; she is a board member of Axis Philly, a nonprofit online Philadelphia news site. Amanda Bennett Amanda Bennett (born July 9, 1952) is an American journalist and author. She is the former editor of two newspapers, "The Philadelphia Inquirer" and the "Lexington Herald-Leader" and author of six nonfiction books. Bennett was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was raised in Boonton, New Jersey, where she attended Boonton High School, graduating with the