Green Party of England and Wales election results

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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 Senedd elections.

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Westminster elections

Summary performance

YearCandidatesTotal votes % of
total vote
ChangeAverage
vote [1]
Average
% vote
Saved
deposits
No. of MPsChangeNotes
1974 (Feb) 64,5760.0%New7631.7%00Steady2.svgas PEOPLE Party
1974 (Oct) 51,9960.0%Steady2.svg3990.9%00Steady2.svgas PEOPLE Party
1979 5339,9180.1%Increase2.svg0.1%7531.5%00Steady2.svgas Ecology Party
1983 10954,2990.2%Increase2.svg0.1%4981.0%00Steady2.svgas Ecology Party
1987 13389,7530.3%Increase2.svg0.1%6751.4%00Steady2.svgas Green Party (UK)
1992 253170,0370.5%Increase2.svg0.2%6721.3%00Steady2.svg
1997 8961,7310.2%Decrease2.svg0.3%6941.3%00Steady2.svg
2001 145166,4770.6%Increase2.svg0.4%1,1482.8%100Steady2.svg
2005 182257,7581.0%Increase2.svg0.4%1,4163.2%220Steady2.svg
2010 310265,2470.9%Decrease2.svg0.1%8551.8%6 1 Increase2.svg1
2015 5381,111,6033.8%Increase2.svg2.9%2,0664.3%123 1 Steady2.svg
2017 457525,5651.6%Decrease2.svg2.2%1,1502.1%8 1 Steady2.svg
2019 472865,7152.7%Increase2.svg1.1%1,8343.6%29 1 Steady2.svg
2024 5741,841,8886.4%Increase2.svg3.7%3,2097.2%3594Increase2.svg3 Heywood & Middleton North was the sole constituency without a Green candidate

General election 2010

The 2010 general election [2] 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 votes in the General election.

General election 2015

The Green Party stood in 571 seats across the UK in the 2015 general election. [3] They held Brighton Pavilion and came second in Bristol West, Liverpool Riverside, Manchester Gorton and Sheffield Central, with third places in 17 constituencies. [4]

It was the first time the party garnered more than one million votes in a general election. [5] Deposits were saved in 123 constituencies, where the Green candidate collected at least 5% of the votes cast. [6]

General election 2017

In the 2017 general election, Green candidates stood in 457 seats across the UK, standing down in some seats to improve the chances of another progressive candidate.

Deposits were saved in 8 seats: Brighton Pavilion (seat held), Isle of Wight, Buckingham, Bristol West, Sheffield Central, Skipton & Ripon, North Herefordshire and North East Hertfordshire (their sister party, the Scottish Green Party, also saved one deposit in Glasgow North). This was down from 123 saved deposits in 2015. The party lost over half its vote compared to 2015, falling from 1,156,149 votes (3.8%) to 524,604 (1.6%). The party also saw significant declines in its share of the vote in target seats, such as in Bristol West (-13.9%), Norwich South (-11%), and Sheffield Central (-7.8%). It also fell behind Labour in the Isle of Wight. In total, the Green vote fell in 561 constituencies, and rose in 22.

General election 2019

In the 2019 general election, Green candidates stood in 469 seats across England and Wales, standing down in several seats to enable tactical voting, including 50 constituencies as part of the Unite to Remain campaign. Deposits were saved in 29 seats, up from the eight saved in the 2017 election. As well as holding the seat of Brighton Pavilion, the party came second in two seats (Bristol West and Dulwich and West Norwood) and third in 12 constituencies.

General election 2024

The 2024 general election was the party's most successful ever. Green candidates stood in all but one of the 575 seats across England and Wales. Four Green MPs were elected, with the party retaining the seat of Brighton Pavilion and gaining Bristol Central, North Herefordshire and Waveney Valley. In addition, 40 further seats saw Greens finish in second. In total, 359 seats saw votes in excess of 5% and therefore a returned deposit.

By-elections

The party came second in the 2008 Haltemprice and Howden by-election, although unusually Labour and the Liberal Democrats did not stand candidates.

The Richmond Green Party voted against standing in the 2016 Richmond Park by-election and to back the Liberal Democrat candidate. [7] On 3 November, the Kingston Green Party did the same, and confirmed that there would not be a Green Party candidate in the by-election. [8]

The Party stated that following the murder of the incumbent MP Jo Cox that it would not contest the 2016 Batley and Spen by-election. [9] Similarly, following the murder of the incumbent MP David Amess, the Green Party stated that it would not contest the 2022 Southend West by-election. [10]

YearConstituencyCandidateVotes %±Notes
1976Walsall North Jonathan Tyler 1810.5Steady2.svgDebut of the Ecology Party at a UK by-election.
1979Manchester CentralJohn Foster1291.2Steady2.svgStood as Ecology Party.
1979South West HertfordshireNigel Jeskins6021.6Steady2.svgStood as Ecology Party.
1980Glasgow CentralDavid Mellor450.6Steady2.svgStood as Ecology Party.
1981WarringtonNeil Chantrell2190.8Steady2.svgStood as Ecology Party.
1981Croydon North WestJohn Foster1550.4Steady2.svgStood as Ecology Party.
1983BermondseyGeorge Hannah450.2Steady2.svgStood as Ecology Party.
1987GreenwichGraham Bell2640.8Steady2.svgDebut of a Green Party (UK) candidate at a UK by-election.
1988KensingtonPhylip Hobson5722.4Increase2.svg0.7%Phylip Hobson was only 19yrs old at the time of the election when the minimum age for an MP was 21.
1990Knowsley SouthRichard Georgeson6563.1Steady2.svgDebut of Green Party of England and Wales at a UK by-election.
1990EastbourneDavid Aherne5531.2Decrease2.svg0.4%
1993NewburyJim Wallis3410.6Decrease2.svg0.2%
1999Kensington and Chelsea Hugo Charlton 4462.3Steady2.svg
2000TottenhamPeter Budge6063.7Increase2.svg0.9%
2000PrestonRichard Merrick4412.1Steady2.svg
2001IpswichTony Slade2550.9Steady2.svg
2002OgmoreJonathan Spink2501.4Steady2.svg
2003Brent East Noel Lynch 6383.1Decrease2.svg1.6%
2004HartlepoolIris Ryder2550.8Steady2.svg
2006Bromley and ChislehurstAnn Garrett8112.8Decrease2.svg0.4%
2007Ealing SouthallSarah Edwards1,1353.1Decrease2.svg1.5%
2007SedgefieldChristopher Haine3481.2Steady2.svg
2008Crewe and NantwichRobert Smith3590.9Steady2.svg
2008HenleyMark Stevenson1,3213.8Increase2.svg0.5%
2008Haltemprice and HowdenShan Oakes1,7587.4Steady2.svgParty placed 2nd
2009Norwich North Rupert Read 3,3509.7Increase2.svg7.0%
2011Oldham East and SaddleworthPeter Allen5301.5Steady2.svg
2011Feltham and HestonDaniel Goldsmith4261.8Increase2.svg0.7%
2012Bradford WestDawud Islam4811.5Decrease2.svg0.8%
2012Manchester CentralTom Dylan6523.9Increase2.svg1.6%
2012CorbyJonathan Hornett3781.1Steady2.svg
2012Cardiff South and PenarthAnthony Slaughter8004.1Increase2.svg2.9%
2012Croydon NorthShasha Khan8553.5Increase2.svg1.5%
2014Wythenshawe and Sale EastNigel Woodcock7483.1Steady2.svg
2014NewarkDavid Kirwan1,0572.7Steady2.svg
2014ClactonChris Southall6881.9Increase2.svg0.7%
2014Heywood and MiddletonAbi Jackson8703.1Steady2.svg
2014Rochester and StroodClive Gregory1,6924.2Increase2.svg2.7%
2015Oldham West and RoytonSimeon Hart2490.9Decrease2.svg1%
2015OgmoreLaurie Brophy7542.1Steady2.svg
2015Sheffield Brightside and HillsboroughChristine Gilligan Kubo9384.2Decrease2.svg0.1%
2016TootingEsther Obiri-Darko8302.6Decrease2.svg1.5%
2016Witney Larry Sanders 1,3633.5Decrease2.svg1.6%
2017CopelandJack Lenox5151.7Decrease2.svg1.3%
2017Stoke-on-Trent CentralAdam Colclough2941.4Decrease2.svg2.2%
2018Lewisham East Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah 7883.6Increase2.svg1.9%
2019Newport West Amelia Womack 9243.9Increase2.svg2.8%
2019PeterboroughJoseph Wells1,0353.1Increase2.svg1.3%
2021HartlepoolRachel Featherstone3581.2Steady2.svg
2021Chesham and AmershamCarolyne Culver1,4803.9Decrease2.svg1.6%
2021Old Bexley and SidcupJonathan Rooks8303.8Increase2.svg0.6%
2021North ShropshireDuncan Kerr1,7384.6Increase2.svg1.4%
2022Birmingham ErdingtonSiobhan Harper-Nunes2361.4Decrease2.svg0.4%
2022Tiverton and HonitonGill Westcott1,0642.5Decrease2.svg1.3%
2022WakefieldAshley Routh5872.1Increase2.svg2.1%
2022City of ChesterPaul Bowers9873.5Increase2.svg0.9%
2022Stretford & UrmstonDan Jerrome7894.3Increase2.svg1.6%
2023 West Lancashire Peter Cranie6462.8Increase2.svg0.4%
2023 Selby & Ainsty Arnold Warneken1,8385.1Increase2.svg1.9%
2023 Somerton & Frome Martin Dimery3,94410.2Increase2.svg5.1%Largest ever vote share for the Green Party at a by-election
2023 Uxbridge & South Ruislip Sarah Green8932.9Increase2.svg0.7%
2023 Mid Bedfordshire Cade Sibley7321.8Decrease2.svg2.0%
2023 Tamworth Sue Howarth4171.6Decrease2.svg0.4%
2024 Kingswood Lorraine Francis1,4505.8Increase2.svg3.4%Deposit retained
2024 Wellingborough Will Morris1,0203.4Decrease2.svg0.1%
2024 Rochdale Guy Otten [a] 4361.4Decrease2.svg0.7%
2024 Blackpool South Ben Thomas3682.0Increase2.svg0.3%

European Parliament elections

Summary performance

YearVotes won % of VotesChangeMEPs electedChangeNote
1979 17,9530.1New0Steady2.svgas Ecology Party
1984 70,8530.5Increase2.svg0.40Steady2.svgas Ecology Party
1989 2,299,28714.5Increase2.svg14.00Steady2.svgas Green Party (UK). Highest ever Green result in the UK.
1994 471,2693.0Decrease2.svg11.50Steady2.svg [11]
1999 568,2365.3Increase2.svg2.32Increase2.svg2First two MEPs elected
2004 1,033,0935.6Increase2.svg0.32Steady2.svg
2009 1,223,3037.8Increase2.svg2.22Steady2.svg
2014 1,136,6706.9Decrease2.svg0.93Increase2.svg1First seat gain since 1999
2019 1,881,30611.8Increase2.svg4.97Increase2.svg4Highest number of Green MEPs elected, best Green Party E&W result ever.

European Parliament election 2009

In the June 2009 European Parliament election the party secured 1,223,303 votes or 7.8% of the popular vote compared to its 2004 vote share of 5.6%. Green MEPs Caroline Lucas in the South East and Jean Lambert in London were re-elected. The Greens came first in Norwich with 25%, Oxford with 26% and Brighton and Hove with 31%, [12] but it failed to gain any extra MEPs. [13] [ non-primary source needed ]

The regional breakdown of the vote was as follows:

ConstituencyCandidatesVotes [14] %±%
East Midlands Sue Blount, Richard Mallender, Ashley Baxter, Matthew Follett, Barney Smith83,9396.8Increase2.svg1.4
East of England Rupert Read, Peter Lynn, James Abbott, Marc Scheimann, Angela Thomson, Andrew Stringer, Amy Drayson141,0168.8Increase2.svg3.2
London Jean Lambert MEP , Ute Michel, Shahrar Ali, Joseph Healy, Miranda Dunn, Shasha Khan, George Graham, Priya Shah190,58910.9Increase2.svg2.5
North East England Shirley Ford, Iris Ryder, Nic Best34,0815.8Increase2.svg1.0
North West England Peter Cranie, Maria Whitelegg, Ruth Bergan, Samir Chatterjee, Jill Perry, Justine Hall, Margaret Westbrook, Geoff Smith127,1337.7Increase2.svg2.1
South East England Caroline Lucas MEP , Keith Taylor, Derek Wall, Miriam Kennet, Jason Kitcat, Hazel Dawe, Jonathan Essex, Matthew Ledbury, Steve Dawe, Beverley Golden271,50611.6Increase2.svg3.8
South West England Ricky Knight, Roger Creagh-Osborne, Molly Scott Cato, Richard Lawson, Chloë Somers, David Taylor 144,1799.3Increase2.svg2.1
West Midlands Felicity Norman, Peter Tinsley, Chris Williams, Ian Davison, Vicky Dunn, Dave Wall88,2446.2Increase2.svg1.1
Yorkshire and the Humber Martin Hemingway, Shan Oakes, Leslie Rowe, Kevin Warnes, Lesley Hedges, Steve Barnard104,4568.5Increase2.svg2.8
Wales Jake Griffiths, Kay Roney, Ann Were, John Matthews38,1605.6Increase2.svg2.0

European Parliament election 2014

In the 2014 election, the Greens gained a seat for the first time since 1999, with Molly Scott Cato being elected as MEP for South West England, where the party's vote share rose by 1.8%. However, the party's vote fell in every other region, and there was media speculation that the party had only gained a seat in the South West as a result of An Independence from Europe dividing the UK Independence Party vote. [15]

The regional breakdown of the vote was as follows:

ConstituencyCandidatesVotes [16] %±%
East Midlands Katharina Boettge, Sue Mallender, Richard Mallender, Peter Allen, Simon Hales67,0666.0Decrease2.svg0.9
East of England Rupert Read, Mark Ereira-Guyer, Jill Mills, Ash Haynes, Marc Scheimann, Robert Lindsay, Fiona Radic133,3318.5Decrease2.svg0.3
London Jean Lambert MEP , Caroline Allen, Haroon Saad, Shahrar Ali, Danny Bates, Tracey Hague, Violeta Vajda, Amelia Womack 196,4198.9Decrease2.svg2.0
North East England Shirley Ford, Alison Whalley, Caroline Robinson31,6055.2Decrease2.svg0.6
North West England Peter Cranie, Gina Dowding, Laura Bannister, Jill Perry, John Knight, Ulrike Zeshan, Lewis Coyne, Jake Welsh123,0757.0Decrease2.svg0.7
South East England Keith Taylor , Alexandra Phillips, Derek Wall, Jason Kitcat, Miriam Kennet, Beverley Golden, Jonathan Essex, Jonathan Kent, Stuart Jeffrey, Ray Cunningham211,7069.1Decrease2.svg2.6
South West England Molly Scott Cato , Emily McIvor, Ricky Knight, Audaye Elesedy, Judy Maciejowska, Mark Chivers166,44711.1Increase2.svg1.8
West Midlands Will Duckworth, Aldo Mussi, Vicky Duckworth, Tom Harris, Karl Macnaughton, Duncan Kerr, Laura Katherine Vesty71,4645.3Decrease2.svg0.9
Yorkshire and the Humber Andrew Cooper, Shan Oakes, Dr Vicky Dunn, Denise Craghill, Martin Hemingway, Kevin Warnes102,2827.9Decrease2.svg0.6
Wales Pippa Bartolotti, John Matthews, Chris Were, Rosemary Cutler33,2754.5Decrease2.svg1.0

European Parliament election 2019

Local elections

The 2023 United Kingdom local elections were the best ever results for the Green Party. [17] The 2024 United Kingdom local elections were the seventh year in a row of green gains with a new record high of 809 councillors on 174 councils.

DateCouncillorsCouncilsVotes
SeatsChangeCouncilsChangeVotes won % VotesChange
2019 265Increase2.svg1940No Change
2021 151Increase2.svg880No Change
2022 124Increase2.svg710No Change
2023 481Increase2.svg241 1 Increase2.svg1
2024 181Increase2.svg740No Change

Police and Crime Commissioner elections

DateCandidatesVotes% of total voteChangeSaved depositsCommissionersChange
2012 18,4840.2%New10Steady2.svg
2016 7113,9571.3%Increase2.svg1.1%60Steady2.svg
2021 7274,1362.4%Increase2.svg1.1%70Steady2.svg
2024 8257,5583.3%Increase2.svg1.1%80Steady2.svg

London elections

London local elections

DateCouncillorsCouncilsVotes
SeatsChangeCouncilsChangeVotes won % VotesChange
1990 0Steady2.svg0Steady2.svg141,5695.9Increase2.svg4.7
1994 0Steady2.svg0Steady2.svg48,7982.2Decrease2.svg3.7
1998 2Increase2.svg20Steady2.svg50,7322.9Increase2.svg0.7
2002 1Decrease2.svg10Steady2.svg95,3945.5Increase2.svg2.6
2006 12Increase2.svg110Steady2.svg169,1607.9Increase2.svg2.4
2010 2Decrease2.svg100Steady2.svg248,1756.6Decrease2.svg1.3
2014 4Increase2.svg20Steady2.svg246,8059.8Increase2.svg3.2
2018 11Increase2.svg70Steady2.svg210,8818.6Decrease2.svg1.2
2022 18Increase2.svg70Steady2.svg

London Assembly elections

DateFPTP Vote % of VoteChangeList Vote % of VoteChangeAMsChange
2000 162,45710.2N/A183,91011.1N/A3N/A
2004 138,2427.7Decrease2.svg2.5160,4458.6Decrease2.svg2.52Decrease2.svg1
2008 194,0598.1Increase2.svg0.4203,4658.3Decrease2.svg0.32Steady2.svg
2012 188,6238.5Increase2.svg0.5189,2158.5Increase2.svg0.12Steady2.svg
2016 236,8099.1Increase2.svg0.5207,9598.0Decrease2.svg0.62Steady2.svg
2021 336,84013.0Increase2.svg3.9305,45211.8Increase2.svg3.83Increase2.svg1
2024 319,86912.9Decrease2.svg0.1286,74611.5Decrease2.svg0.33Steady2.svg

London Mayoral elections

DateCandidatePopular Vote % of VoteChangePlace
2000 Darren Johnson 38,1212.2N/A6th
2004 Darren Johnson 57,3323.1Increase2.svg0.97th
2008 Siân Berry 77,3473.2Increase2.svg0.14th
2012 Jenny Jones 98,9134.5Increase2.svg1.33rd
2016 Siân Berry 150,6735.8Increase2.svg1.33rd
2021 Siân Berry 197,9767.8Increase2.svg2.03rd
2024 Zoë Garbett 145,1145.8Decrease2.svg2.04th

Wales Green Party election results

Welsh Assembly/Senedd elections

DateFPTP Vote % of VoteChangeList Vote % of VoteChangeAMsChange
1999 1,0020.1N/A25,8582.5N/A0N/A
2003 Decrease2.svg0.130,0283.5Increase2.svg1.00Steady2.svg
2007 Steady2.svg33,8033.5Steady2.svg0Steady2.svg
2011 1,5140.2Increase2.svg0.232,6493.4Decrease2.svg0.10Steady2.svg
2016 25,2022.5Increase2.svg2.330,2113.0Decrease2.svg0.40Steady2.svg
2021 17,8171.6Decrease2.svg0.948,7144.4Increase2.svg1.40Steady2.svg

2022

The Wales Green Party won 8 seats at the 2022 Welsh local elections. [18]

2021

2016

In September 2015, Amelia Womack, then Deputy Leader of GPEW, announced her intention to stand in the National Assembly elections for the Wales Green Party. [19] The Wales Green Party create their own set of devolved policies around devolved issues in Wales. They were hopeful of gaining three Assembly seats from the proportional representation lists in the 2016 elections. [20] In the event, they won none, their vote share fell by 0.4%, and the party dropped to seventh place, behind the single-issue Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party. It was the party's worst result since 1999.

RegionNumber of VotesProportion of VotesChangeCandidates
Mid and West Wales 8,2223.8%Decrease2.svg0.3%Alice Hooker Stroud, Grenville Ham, Pippa Pemberton, Frances Bryant, Brian Dafydd Williams
North Wales 4,7892.3%Steady2.svgDuncan Rees, Martin Bennewith, Petra Haig, Gerry Wolff
South Wales Central 7,9493.4%Decrease2.svg1.8% Amelia Womack, Anthony Slaughter, Hannah Pudner, Chris von Ruhland
South Wales East 4,8312.5%Decrease2.svg0.2% Pippa Bartolotti, Ann Were, Chris Were, Katy Beddoe, Andrew Creak
South Wales West 4,4202.6%Steady2.svgLisa Rapado, Charlotte Barlow, Laurence Brophy, Mike Whittall, Russell Kennedy, Thomas Muller

2011

The Wales Green Party again fielded candidates in all 5 top-up regions for the 2011 election. For the first time since 1999, the Greens also stood in a constituency - they once again opted to stand in Ceredigion.

During the 2011 campaign, they specifically targeted Labour voters with the aim of persuading them to use their regional list vote for the Greens, using the slogan "2nd vote Green". They claimed that Labour list votes were "wasted" and that over 70,000 votes in South Wales Central went "in the bin at every election" as Labour had never won a top-up seat in that region. [21]

On this occasion, South Wales Central was the region the party targeted. The region includes Cardiff, with its large student population, and also the constituency of Cardiff Central, the only Liberal Democrat-Labour marginal seat in Wales. Welsh Green leader and South Wales Central candidate Jake Griffiths stated they were also aiming to attract disaffected Liberal Democrat voters in the region. [22]

The Greens polled 32,649 votes, 3.4% of the total votes cast for the regional lists. [23] In South Wales Central, they took over 10,000 votes, 5.2% of the total, though they were still almost 6,000 votes away from winning a seat. The regional results were as follows:

RegionNumber of VotesProportion of VotesChangeCandidates
Mid and West Wales [24] 8,6604.1%Increase2.svg0.1%Leila Kiersch, Marilyn Elson
North Wales [25] 4,4062.3%Decrease2.svg0.6%Dorienne Robinson, Timothy Foster, Peter Haig
South Wales Central [26] 10,7745.2%Increase2.svg1.4%Jake Griffiths, Sam Coates, John Matthews, Matt Townsend, Teleri Clark
South Wales East [27] 4,8572.7%Decrease2.svg0.2%Chris Were, Pippa Bartolotti, Owen Clarke, Alyson Ayland, Alan Williams
South Wales West [28] 3,9522.6%Decrease2.svg1.2%Keith Ross, Huw Evans, Andy Chyba, Delyth Miller

In Ceredigion, Chris Simpson polled 1,514 votes, or 5.2%. He came fifth out of five candidates. [29]

2007

In 2007, the party again fielded a list of candidates in each of the top-up regions but no candidates for the constituencies. The Wales Green Party proposed that Wales should "be at the forefront of....a green industrial revolution". The party targeted South Wales West - the region where they had performed best in 2003. [30]

The Welsh Greens polled 33,803 votes, or 3.5% of the total, a slight decrease on 2003. [31] The party failed to win any seats, with their best performance this time being Mid and West Wales with 4.0% of the vote. In South Wales West their vote declined by one percentage point, their worst result of the five regions.

RegionNumber of VotesProportion of VotesChangeCandidates
Mid and West Wales [32] 8,7684.0%Decrease2.svg0.1%Leila Kiersch, Moth Foster, Marilyn Elson, John Jennings
North Wales [33] 5,6602.9%Increase2.svg0.4%Jim Killock, Joe Blakesley, Maredudd ap Rheinallt, Wilf Hastings
South Wales Central [34] 7,8313.8%Increase2.svg0.4%John Matthews, Richard Payne, David Pierce, Nigel Baker
South Wales East [35] 5,4142.8%Decrease2.svg0.3%Ann Were, Alasdair McGowen, Gerry Layton, Owen Clarke
South Wales West [36] 6,1303.8%Decrease2.svg1.0%Rhodri Griffiths, Brig Oubridge, Jane Richmond, Jonathan Spink

2003

In the 2003 election, the party again fielded a list of candidates for each of the electoral regions but this time stood no candidates for the constituencies. The Welsh Greens failed to win any seats, polling 30,028 votes, or 3.5%. Their best performance was in South Wales West where they polled 6,696 votes, or 4.8% of the total.

RegionNumber of VotesProportion of VotesChangeCandidates
Mid and West Wales [37] 7,7944.2%Increase2.svg0.7%Dorienne Robinson, Molly Scott Cato, Timothy Foster, Reg Taylor, Christopher Cato
North Wales [38] 4,2002.4%Increase2.svg0.2%Klaus Armstrong-Brown, John Walker, Jeremy Hart, Wilfred Hastings, Gilly Boyd, Jim Killock
South Wales Central [39] 6,0473.3%Increase2.svg0.9%John Matthews, Lynn Farr, Jan Tucker, Sylvia Latham, Paul Beswick
South Wales East [40] 5,2913.1%Increase2.svg1.1%Peter Varley, Ann Were, Owen Clarke, Ernie Hamer, Gealdine Layton, Teresa Telfer, Matthew Wooton
South Wales West [41] 6,6964.8%Increase2.svg2.4%Martin Shrewsbury, Jan Cliff, Rhodri Griffiths, Steve Clegg, Deborah James, Tony Young

1999

In the 1999 inaugural election for the National Assembly, the Welsh Greens stood candidates in all five electoral regions used to elect "top-up" members of the assembly. Additionally, one candidate stood for the constituency seat of Ceredigion. The party stated that they aimed to poll around 7% of the vote and win at least one top-up seat. [42]

The Welsh Greens ultimately polled 25,858 votes in the regional lists, 2.5% of the total, and 1,002 constituency votes (3.1%) in Ceredigion. No Welsh Greens were elected. [43]

RegionNumber of VotesProportion of VotesCandidates
Mid and West Wales [44] 7,7183.5%Dave Bradney, Sarah Scott-Cato, Sue Walker, Timothy Shaw, Timothy Foster
North Wales [45] 4,6672.2%Jim Killock, Christopher Busby, Robin Welch, Klaus Armstrong-Brown, Angela Loveridge, Alexandra Plows, Kathryn Turner, Gwilym Morus, Sarah Collick
South Wales Central [46] 5,3362.5%Kevin Jakeway, John Matthews, Vivien Turner, Chris Von Ruhland
South Wales East [47] 4,0552.0%Roger Coghill, Kevin Williams, Steve Ainley, Elaine Ross, Owen Clarke
South Wales West [48] 4,0822.4%Graham Oubridge, Lee Turner, Janet Evans, Simon Phillips

European Parliament elections

2014

The Wales Green Party nominated four candidates for the European Parliament election, 2014. [49]

2009

In the 2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, the Welsh party failed to gain any seats in the European Parliament, but increased the vote to 5.6% for the four Welsh seats.

2004

In the 2004 elections, the Welsh party failed to gain any seats in the European Parliament (with 3.6% of the vote for the four Welsh seats) and lost their only county council seat (of Klaus Armstrong-Braun in Flintshire).

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">2007 National Assembly for Wales election</span>

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">2021 London Assembly election</span>

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">2024 United Kingdom general election in Wales</span>

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Notes

  1. The Green Party withdrew Otten's endorsement on 7 February 2024. His name will remain as a Green Party candidate on the ballot paper.[ citation needed ]