LFF has the breakdown of the Green Party's internal elections - read them here.
Left Foot Forward can reveal the full results of the Green Party elections, which were announced on Tuesday.
Jonathan Bartley have been elected as co-leaders with 6329 votes. who was recently elected a councillor in Lambeth, and Siân Berry, a London Assembly member for the party. Bartley was recently elected a councillor in Lambeth, and Siân Berry is a London Assembly member for the party.
The 75% secured by the co-leadership team follows Bartley and Berry leading the race as favourites throughout August, when members were voting for key positions in the party.
The other two candidates – Shahrar Ali, academic and former deputy leader, and Leslie Rowe, a former parliamentary candidate in Yorkshire – received 1466 and 495 votes respectively.
With 39,000 members, the turnout of ~8500 members appears to be around 22%.
Every two years the party elects its leadership team. The co-leaders had previously been Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley, but Lucas, perhaps the most well-known Green politician and its only MP, decided not to stand for re-election to make way for new voices.
https://twitter.com/alicejkiff/status/1036956989790855168
Amelia Womack was elected as deputy leader on 3981 votes, 54%. She has been in the position since 2014. Her closest rival was Andrew Cooper, who is a Green Party Councillor on Kirklees, who received 1836 votes.
He was followed by Rashid Nix, who was a Green Party parliamentary candidate in 2015, on 1062 votes and Jonathan Chilvers, a Green Party councillor in Warwickshire, on 438 votes.
https://twitter.com/Amelia_Womack/status/1036961230798422016
One of the people in the running to be deputy leader, Aimee Chanellor – who resigned from the party yesterday – had been the Green’s equality spokesperson but dropped out of the contest, after her father and election agent was convicted of torturing and raping a child.
The rest of the results are as follows:
Campaigns co-ordinators: Britta Goodman and Caroline New were elected on a joint ticket with 3004 votes. Jackie Tait received 1803.
Chair of the party: Liz Reason was elected with 3261 votes, while Emma Carter and Kirsty Jones jointly received 1774 votes.
Equalities and diversity co-ordinator: Claudine Letsae was elected on 2656 votes. Helmut Izaks received 1334 votes.
External communications co-ordinator: Rob Shepherd was elected on 2061 votes. Jack Lenox received 2025 votes.
Management ordinator: Zoe Nicholson was elected on 1887 votes. Florense Pollock received 895 votes and Louis Williams 919.
Uncontested positions:
Finance co-ordinator: Sebastian Sandys elected on 2882 votes.
International co-ordinators: Michael Chantkowski and Alice Hubbard elected on a joint ticket with 3503 votes.
Policy development co-ordinator: Ronald Stewart elected on 3332 votes.
Trade Union liaison officer: Paul Valentine elected on 3417 votes.
Policy development committee: Emma Robson, Ben Samuel, and Linda Freeman. One the first count of the vote they received 646, 732 and 2068 respectively.
You can see the results in full here.
See also: ‘Green leadership race: Jonathan Bartley and London AM Sian Berry announce joint bid‘, and Amelia Womack on how we do a new politics.
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