Green Party of England and Wales leadership election, 2010

Green Party of England and Wales leadership election, 2010

14 September 2010 (2010-09-14)

120px Candidate Caroline Lucas First preference votes 3,190 Percentage 97.91% Notes Elected unopposed

Leader before election Caroline Lucas Elected Leader Caroline Lucas

Green Party of England and Wales deputy leadership election, 2010

14 September 2010 (2010-09-14)

120px 120px Candidate Adrian Ramsay Derek Wall First preference votes 2,386 826 Percentage 73.39% 25.41%

Deputy leader before election Adrian Ramsay Elected Deputy leader Adrian Ramsay

The Green Party of England and Wales leadership election, 2010 took place in August and September 2010. The party has elections every two years for leader and deputy leader roles and this was the second election since the party decided to switch from having principle speakers to having a leader and a deputy leader, or co-leaders. Caroline Lucas was re-elected as leader unopposed and Adrian Ramsay was re-elected as deputy leader after defeating former principle speaker Derek Wall.

All members of the party were sent ballot papers in the post with their copy of the party's magazine, Green World and voting ended shortly after hustings were held at the party's autumn conference in Birmingham where members who had not already posted their ballot papers could vote in person at conference.

Campaign

Caroline Lucas and Adrian Ramsay campaigned for re-election together and shared materials such as a website and leaflets promoting them both together. This was possibly due to Ramsey having limited time due to fighting an all-out by-election on Norwich City Council (where he was a councillor) who had called for an election for all council seats due to failing to become a unitary authority with polling day the day before the Green Party conference.

Derek Wall campaigned with the support of internal group Green Left which he has been an active member of since its formation.

Results

A total of 3,279 votes were cast in the postal ballot.

The results were as follows:

For leader

Green Party of England and Wales leadership election, 2010
Candidate		Votes	%
	Caroline Lucas	3,190	97.91
	Re-open Nominations	68	2.09
Turnout		3,258
Caroline Lucas re-elected leader

For deputy leadership

Green Party of England and Wales deputy leadership election, 2010
Candidate		Votes	%
	Adrian Ramsay	2,386	73.39
	Derek Wall	826	25.41
	Re-open Nominations	39
Turnout
Adrian Ramsay re-elected deputy leader