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Green Party of England and Wales

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The Green Party of England and Wales (GPEW; Welsh: Plaid Werdd Lloegr a Chymru), often known simply as the Green Party or the Greens, is a green, left-wing political party in England and Wales. Since September 2025, Zack Polanski has served as the party's leader. The party currently has four representatives in the House of Commons and two in the House of Lords, in addition to more than 890 councillors at the local government level and three members of the London Assembly. The party's ideology combines environmentalism with left-wing economic policies, including well-funded and locally controlled public services. It advocates a steady-state economy with the regulation of capitalism, and supports proportional representation. It takes a progressive approach to social policies such as civil liberties, animal rights, LGBTQ rights and drug policy reform. The party also supports a universal basic income, a living wage and democratic participation. It has taken a pro-immigration stance. It is split into various regional divisions, including the semi-autonomous Wales Green Party and is internationally affiliated with the Global Greens and the European Green Party. In 1990, what was then the UK-wide Green Party – which had initially been established as the PEOPLE Party in 1973 – divided into the Green Party of England and Wales, the Scottish Greens and the Green Party Northern Ireland. Since 1990, they have been three completely separate and unique political parties, with their own separate leaders, memberships and policies. The Green Party of England and Wales went through centralising reforms spearheaded by the Green 2000 group in early 1991 and also sought to emphasise growth in local governance, doing so throughout 1990. In 2010, the party gained its first member of Parliament in its then-leader Caroline Lucas (although Plaid Cymru's Cynog Dafis was elected on a joint ticket in the 1990s). As the party's support is spread out across England and Wales and has rarely been found in electorally significant clusters, the party held only one seat in the House of Commons from 2010 to 2019, before reaching four seats in 2024. The Green Party supports replacing the UK's first-past-the-post voting system with proportional representation, which would grant all parties a share of seats in Parliament based on their national vote share. Since 2025, and in particular since Polanski's election as leader, the party's membership has more than doubled, and it has seen a significant increase of support in polling, notably from voters dissatisfied with the Labour Party. In November of that year, the Green Party overtook Labour in polling for the first time.

Infobox

Abbreviation
GPEW
Leader
Zack Polanski
Deputy Leaders
Rachel Millward Mothin Ali
Chair
Jon Nott
House of Commons Leader
Ellie Chowns
Founded
July 1990; 35 years ago (1990-07)[n 1]
Preceded by
Green Party (UK)
Headquarters
PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
Youth wing
Young Greens of England and Wales
LGBT wing
LGBTIQA Greens
Membership (October 2025)
150,000
Ideology
Green politicsProgressivismFactions:Anti-capitalismEco-socialism
Political position
Left-wing
European affiliation
European Green Party
International affiliation
Global Greens
Colours
mw- Green
Devolved branches
Wales Green PartyLondon Green Party
House of Commons
4 / 575 (England and Wales)
House of Lords
2 / 822
Senedd
0 / 60
London Assembly
3 / 25
Directly elected strategic authority mayors in England
0 / 14
Directly elected single authority mayors in England
0 / 13
Councillors
891 / 17,403 (England and Wales)
Councils led
12 / 338 (England and Wales)
PCCs and PFCCs
0 / 37
Membership (November 2025)
170,000
Membership (December 2025)
180,000

Tables

· Election results › House of Commons
#
#
Election
#
Leader(s)
%
Leader(s)
±
Votes
#
Votes
±
1992
1992
Election
1992
Leader(s)
Jean Lambert
Leader(s)
Richard Lawson
Votes
170,047
Votes
0.5
Votes
0.2
Seats
0 / 650
Seats
Government
Conservative
1997
1997
Election
1997
Leader(s)
Peg Alexander
Leader(s)
David Taylor
Votes
61,731
Votes
0.3
Votes
0.2
Seats
0 / 659
Seats
Government
Labour
2001
2001
Election
2001
Leader(s)
Margaret Wright
Leader(s)
Mike Woodin
Votes
166,477
Votes
0.6
Votes
0.3
Seats
0 / 659
Seats
Government
Labour
2005
2005
Election
2005
Leader(s)
Caroline Lucas
Leader(s)
Keith Taylor
Votes
257,758
Votes
1.0
Votes
0.4
Seats
0 / 646
Seats
Government
Labour
2010
2010
Election
2010
Leader(s)
Caroline Lucas
Leader(s)
265,247
Votes
0.9
Votes
0.1
Votes
1 / 650
Seats
1
Seats
Conservative–Liberal Democrats
2015
2015
Election
2015
Leader(s)
Natalie Bennett
Leader(s)
1,111,603
Votes
3.8
Votes
2.9
Votes
1 / 650
Seats
Seats
Conservative
2017
2017
Election
2017
Leader(s)
Caroline Lucas
Leader(s)
Jonathan Bartley
Votes
512,327
Votes
1.6
Votes
2.0
Seats
1 / 650
Seats
Government
Conservative minoritywith DUP confidence & supply
2019
2019
Election
2019
Leader(s)
Siân Berry
Leader(s)
835,589
Votes
2.6
Votes
1.0
Votes
1 / 650
Seats
Seats
Conservative
2024
2024
Election
2024
Leader(s)
Carla Denyer
Leader(s)
Adrian Ramsay
Votes
1,841,888
Votes
6.7
Votes
4.1
Seats
4 / 650
Seats
3
Government
Labour
Election
Leader(s)
Votes
Seats
Government
#
%
±
#
±
1992
Jean Lambert
Richard Lawson
170,047
0.5
0.2
0 / 650
Conservative
1997
Peg Alexander
David Taylor
61,731
0.3
0.2
0 / 659
Labour
2001
Margaret Wright
Mike Woodin
166,477
0.6
0.3
0 / 659
Labour
2005
Caroline Lucas
Keith Taylor
257,758
1.0
0.4
0 / 646
Labour
2010
Caroline Lucas
265,247
0.9
0.1
1 / 650
1
Conservative–Liberal Democrats
2015
Natalie Bennett
1,111,603
3.8
2.9
1 / 650
Conservative
2017
Caroline Lucas
Jonathan Bartley
512,327
1.6
2.0
1 / 650
Conservative minoritywith DUP confidence & supply
2019
Siân Berry
835,589
2.6
1.0
1 / 650
Conservative
2024
Carla Denyer
Adrian Ramsay
1,841,888
6.7
4.1
4 / 650
3
Labour
· Election results › European Parliament
#
#
Election
#
Leader(s)
%
Leader(s)
±
Votes
#
Votes
±
1994
1994
Election
1994
Leader(s)
John Cornford
Leader(s)
Jan Clark
Votes
471,257
Votes
3.0
Votes
11.9
Seats
0 / 87
Seats
Position
5th
1999
1999
Election
1999
Leader(s)
Mike Woodin
Leader(s)
Jean Lambert
Votes
568,236
Votes
5.3
Votes
2.3
Seats
2 / 87
Seats
2
Position
5th
2004
2004
Election
2004
Leader(s)
Mike Woodin
Leader(s)
Caroline Lucas
Votes
948,588
Votes
5.6
Votes
0.3
Seats
2 / 78
Seats
Position
5th
2009
2009
Election
2009
Leader(s)
Caroline Lucas
Leader(s)
1,223,303
Votes
7.8
Votes
2.2
Votes
2 / 72
Seats
Seats
5th
2014
2014
Election
2014
Leader(s)
Natalie Bennett
Leader(s)
1,136,670
Votes
6.9
Votes
0.9
Votes
3 / 73
Seats
1
Seats
4th
2019
2019
Election
2019
Leader(s)
Jonathan Bartley
Leader(s)
Siân Berry
Votes
1,881,306
Votes
11.8
Votes
4.9
Seats
7 / 73
Seats
4
Position
4th
Election
Leader(s)
Votes
Seats
Position
#
%
±
#
±
1994
John Cornford
Jan Clark
471,257
3.0
11.9
0 / 87
5th
1999
Mike Woodin
Jean Lambert
568,236
5.3
2.3
2 / 87
2
5th
2004
Mike Woodin
Caroline Lucas
948,588
5.6
0.3
2 / 78
5th
2009
Caroline Lucas
1,223,303
7.8
2.2
2 / 72
5th
2014
Natalie Bennett
1,136,670
6.9
0.9
3 / 73
1
4th
2019
Jonathan Bartley
Siân Berry
1,881,306
11.8
4.9
7 / 73
4
4th

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