The Green Party is celebrating a spectacular win in Bristol, after becoming the largest party on the city council and winning every available seat in its target parliamentary constituency of Bristol Central.
Citywide, the Green Party won 34 seats, becoming by far the city’s largest party and the largest group of Green councilors ever elected to a council in the United Kingdom.
It is therefore a historic electoral victory for the Green Party.
“Bristol Central has gone completely Green. We won all 14 council seats in the new parliamentary constituency, paving the way for the city to get its first ever Green MP at the next general election. As the MP candidate for Bristol Central, I look forward to giving Bristolians another opportunity to make history. After these resounding local election results, the people of Bristol know that we do not have to accept politics as usual: something better is possible if we vote for it,” said the co-leader of the Green Party, Carla Denyer.
The Greens also became the largest group on Stroud and Hastings councils, with 22 and 12 councilors respectively. And the party won a by-election in Bunwell ward in South Norfolk, forcing the Conservatives to lose their majority on South Norfolk Council. The ward is in the new Waveney Valley constituency, where co-leader Adrian Ramsay hopes to become the next MP.
“Over the last five local elections in England we have seen a five-fold increase in the number of Green councillors. The victories and places we have won mean we are on track to see a similar increase in the number of MPs at the next general election,” said Adrian Ramsay.
He was pleased to see that the Green Party is now the largest party in major English councils, including Hastings, Stroud, East Hertfordshire, Babergh, East Suffolk, Mid Suffolk, Lewes, Folkestone and Hythe, Forest of Dean, as well as than Bristol of course.
“Voters are increasingly turning to the Greens because we offer a real alternative, with sensible and practical policies to solve local and national problems such as the cost of living, the housing crisis, underfunded and run-down public services and the terrible state of our rivers,” said the Green co-leader Ramsay.
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