2016 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election 2016 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election The Green Party of England and Wales leadership election, 2016 took place from July to August 2016, with the campaign period taking place in July, and voting period in August. The incumbent leader, Natalie Bennett, announced on 15 May 2016 that she was not intending to stand for re-election after four years as the leader of the party, resulting in the first contested leadership election since 2012. Former Leader Caroline Lucas MP and Jonathan Bartley won the leadership election with a job share arrangement with 86% of the vote; the results
Brighton Kemptown (UK Parliament constituency) Greens did not field a candidate in 2017 in a tactical effort to assist the Labour Party unseat the sitting Conservative MP, Simon Kirby, who had held the seat for Conservatives in 2015 on a reduced majority; this worked, as Labour's Lloyd Russell-Moyle won the seat with a majority of 9,868 votes (20.0%), the largest Labour has ever held in Brighton Kemptown. The 2015 general election result had made the seat the tenth-most marginal majority of the Conservative Party's 331 seats by percentage of majority. Brighton Kemptown (UK Parliament constituency) Brighton Kemptown is a constituency created in 1950 in the