Results breakdown of the 2005 United Kingdom general election Party came third in Brighton Pavilion (with Keith Taylor as candidate) behind Labour and the Conservatives, taking 21.9% of the votes cast. Despite this unprecedented high share of the vote Taylor was not selected to contest the seat in the 2010 general election, losing his prospective position to Caroline Lucas. The English Democrats gained their highest percentage of the vote, when former "Sun" newspaper columnist, Gary Bushell stood in Greenwich and Woolwich and gained 3.4% of votes cast. The Independent Working Class Association stood for the first time in a general election, having previously only stood in local council elections.
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