Natalie Bennett Party's support increased again. The seven-way debate ultimately took place on 2 April, with Bennett present. Bennett came third in the election to the Labour and Conservative candidates, and in 2016, at the end of her second two-year term, did not stand for re-election as leader. At the party's 2016 autumn conference in Birmingham, Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley were elected as co-leaders of the party in a job-share arrangement. On 7 October 2016, it was announced that Bennett had been selected to contest the Sheffield Central constituency for the Green Party in the 2017 UK general election. Bennett's candidacy
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