British Left left-wing party in the UK, by membership, is the Green Party of England and Wales. , membership was 45,643. The party has one Member of Parliament, Caroline Lucas, who was a Co-Leader of the Green Party of England & Wales; and was first elected as the MP for Brighton Pavilion at the 2010 general election. The other two political parties on the left and with representation in parliament are the centre-left Scottish National Party (SNP) and the left-wing Plaid Cymru. The SNP are only active in Scotland and Plaid are only active in Wales. The SNP has 35 MPs and
Green Party of Canada MP Blair Wilson joined the Green Party during Parliament's summer recess, technically becoming its first Member of Parliament (MP). He was defeated in the 2008 federal election, which was called before he had a chance to sit in the House of Commons as a Green MP. On 2 May 2011, Green Party leader Elizabeth May became the first elected Green Party MP to sit in the House of Commons. She won the riding of Saanich—Gulf Islands in coastal British Columbia. In winning her seat, May also became one of the few Greens worldwide to be elected in a federal, single-seat