4th May 2008

Local Elections - Greens up to 3rd place

Greens have moved up to third place in central St Albans.

At the elections on May 1st we stood a 'full slate' of candidates in all 18 available wards in St Albans District, giving all voters a chance to vote Green. This in itself is an achievement which most smaller parties don't manage. Our total vote in the district was 2,675.

You can see the full results of every ward here

In the two central wards of St Albans, we moved up into 3rd place ahead of Labour. Whilst that is good progress, we had hoped to do even better after all the hard work of the last year.

One reason may be that the Tories' local vote was much better this year, reflecting the national trend. Another may be that for the first time the Lib Dems went out of their way to persuade people not to vote for us.

But in any case we are now well placed to move into position to challenge the Lib Dems in this area.

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Our campaign in central St Albans has been high profile and widely praised. Such attention is the best sign that we are being taken seriously in St Albans.

Across the Eastern Region the party made gains. In Norwich the Green group is now the official opposition on the council, a unique achievement in British politics. They are seriously in the running in Norwich to get a Green MP at the next general election.

Across the country there are now 116 Green councillors, after 9 gains and 4 losses.

In London Sian Berry, the Mayoral candidate, got 77,374 first preference votes, and the Greens retain two seats on the Assembly.

Thank you to everyone who has helped out in the campaign and over the last year. We are always very keen to have more help, whether physical, moral or financial! If you can help in any or all of these ways, or know someone who might, do get in touch.

St Albans District Green Party 39 Worley Road St Albans AL3 5NR 01727 370662 email: as follows but remove the 'X': info@Xsagreens.org.uk