ABSTRACT
The UK had one of the very earliest ‘green’ political parties (originally called People in 1973) and had been successful in local and even European elections for years, but it took nearly four decades for the ‘green’ vote to secure national political representation in the House of Commons. In the 2010 UK General Election, Caroline Lucas won the Brighton Pavilion seat for the Green Party with a majority of 1,252 votes. She was re-elected in the 2015 General Election, again as the only Green Party MP, with the Green Party gaining only 3.8 per cent of the vote across the UK.
