Green Party of England and Wales election results Green Party of England and Wales election results This article lists the election results of the Green Party of England and Wales (and its predecessors) in the UK parliamentary, European parliamentary, London Assembly, and Welsh Assembly elections. The 2010 general election was a milestone for the Green Party as party leader Caroline Lucas was elected Britain's first Green MP in Brighton Pavilion with 31.3% of the vote. The Green Party fielded 310 candidates, six of whom saved their deposits. Green candidates came 4th in Norwich South, Hove, Brighton Kemptown, Cambridge and Lewisham Deptford. Overall the Green party received 1.0% of
Green Party of England and Wales of the London Assembly. Brighton Pavilion was the Green Party's first and only parliamentary seat to date, won at the 2010 general election and held in 2015 and 2017. As with other small parties, representation at the House of Commons has been hindered by the first-past-the-post voting system. The party's first life peer was Baron Beaumont of Whitley, who left the Liberal Democrats and joined the Green Party in 1999. He sat as a Green until his death in 2008. As of December 2015, Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb is their only representative in the House of Lords. Since the first