Greens record best ever General Election result in North West

25 May 2015

The Green Party in the North West had its best ever result in a general election on May 7th. 

Martin Dobson

There were candidates in nearly 90% of the constituencies, and in 8 of them the Party exceeded the 5% required for the return of the deposit (in previous elections in the region this had only happened once).

In two seats - Liverpool Riverside (candidate Martin Dobson - pictured) and Manchester Gorton (candidate Laura Bannister), the Green Party finished second only to Labour; (no other region delivered more than one second place for the Greens).  

The Party also fielded more local election candidates than ever before and won 9 seats on Lancaster City Council and one on Liverpool City Council.

For more information on the elections see here 

Green Party membership in the region is now over 6,000.    

 

 






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