London Green Party

London Green Party
ChairEugene McCarthy[1]
FoundedJuly 1990
Youth wingLondon Young Greens
Membership (February 2026)34,000[2]
IdeologyGreen politics
Progressivism[3]
Faction:
Eco-socialism[4]
Political positionLeft-wing
National affiliationGreen Party of England and Wales
European affiliationEuropean Green Party
International affiliationGlobal Greens
Colours  Green
House of Commons (London seats)
0 / 73
London Assembly
3 / 25
Court of Common Council
0 / 100
Local councillors in London[5]
43 / 1,817
Council control in London
0 / 32
Directly-elected Mayors in London
0 / 5
Website
london.greenparty.org.uk

The London Green Party is the regional party of the Green Party of England and Wales that operates in Greater London. The Greens are currently the third biggest party on the London Assembly. In the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Greens got a record 10% of the vote in London.

Current representatives

London Assembly Members

Councillors

As of December 2025, Green Party representation on London Councils are: [6]

Council Councillors
Barking and Dagenham
3 / 51
Official Opposition
Barnet
0 / 63
Bexley
0 / 45
Brent
5 / 57
3rd
Bromley
0 / 58
Camden
1 / 54
4th
Croydon
2 / 70
3rd
Ealing
0 / 70
Enfield
0 / 63
Greenwich
2 / 55
3rd
Hackney
3 / 48
3rd
Hammersmith & Fulham
2 / 50
3rd
Haringey
2 / 57
3rd
Harrow
0 / 55
Havering
0 / 55
Hillingdon
0 / 53
Hounslow
1 / 62
Islington
3 / 48
Official Opposition
Kensington and Chelsea
1 / 50
4th
Kingston upon Thames
0 / 48
Lambeth
4 / 63
Official Opposition
Lewisham
2 / 54
Official Opposition
Merton
0 / 57
Newham
3 / 66
3rd
Redbridge
0 / 63
Richmond upon Thames
5 / 54
Official Opposition
Southwark
3 / 63
Sutton
0 / 55
Tower Hamlets
1 / 45
3rd
Waltham Forest
0 / 60
Wandsworth
0 / 58
Westminster
0 / 54

Former representatives

Members of the European Parliament

Electoral results

United Kingdom general elections

The table below shows the London Green Party's results at UK general elections since the area of Greater London was created.

Date Votes won % of votes Change MPs Change
2005 78,595 2.7% 0 N/A
2010 54,316 1.6% Decrease1.1 0 Steady
2015 171,670 4.9% Increase3.3 0 Steady
2017 67,579 1.8% Decrease3.1 0 Steady
2019 115,527 3.1% Increase1.3 0 Steady
2024 334,791 10.0% Increase6.9 0 Steady

Greater London Council elections

The table below shows the results obtained by the Ecology Party in elections to the Greater London Council. The GLC was abolished by the Local Government Act 1985.

Date Leader Votes won % of votes Change Councillors Change Result
1977 298 0.0 N/A
0 / 92
Conservative win
1981 17,515 0.8 Increase0.7
0 / 92
Steady Labour win

European Parliament elections

The London Green Party won no boroughs at the 2019 European Parliament election.

During the United Kingdom's membership of the European Union (1973–2020), Greater London participated in European Parliament elections, held every five years from 1979 until 2019.[7] The table below shows the London Green Party results in elections to the European Parliament. Results between 1979 and 1984 are for the Ecology Party, while results in 1989 are for the United Kingdom-wide Green Party. From 1979 to 1994, London members of the European Parliament (MEPs) were elected from ten individual constituencies by first-past-the-post voting; from 1999 to 2019, MEPs were elected from a London-wide regional list by proportional representation.

Election Leader(s)[a] Votes Seats Pos.
No. % ± No. ±
1979 Jonathon Porritt 6,448 0.4 N/A
0 / 10
N/A 4th
1984 More Than Two Principal Speakers 26,132 1.6 Increase 1.1
0 / 10
Steady Steady 4th
1989 298,328 15.9 Increase 14.4
0 / 10
Steady Increase 3rd
1994 John Cornford Jan Clark 61,786 3.8 Decrease 12.2
0 / 10
Steady Decrease 4th
1999 Mike Woodin Jean Lambert 87,545 7.7 Increase 3.9
1 / 10
Increase 1 Steady 4th
2004 Mike Woodin Caroline Lucas 158,986 8.4 Increase 0.8
1 / 9
Steady Decrease 5th
2009 Caroline Lucas 190,589 10.9 Increase 2.5
1 / 8
Steady Increase 4th
2014 Natalie Bennett 196,419 8.9 Decrease 2.0
1 / 8
Steady Steady 4th
2019 Jonathan Bartley Siân Berry 278,957 12.4 Increase 3.5
1 / 8
Steady Steady 4th

London Assembly elections

Election Leader Constituency Party Total Seats +/–
# % Seats # % Seats
2000 Darren Johnson 162,457 10.2%
0 / 14
183,910 11.1%
3 / 11
3 / 25
N/A
2004 138,242 7.7%
0 / 14
160,445 8.6%
2 / 11
2 / 25
Decrease 1
2008 Jenny Jones 194,059 8.1%
0 / 14
203,465 8.3%
2 / 11
2 / 25
Steady
2012 188,623 8.5%
0 / 14
189,215 8.5%
2 / 11
2 / 25
Steady
2016 Siân Berry 236,809 9.1%
0 / 14
207,959 8.0%
2 / 11
2 / 25
Steady
2021 Caroline Russell 336,840 13.0%
0 / 14
305,452 11.8%
3 / 11
3 / 25
Increase 1
2024 319,869 12.9%
0 / 14
286,746 11.6%
3 / 11
3 / 25
Steady

London Mayoral elections

Date Popular Vote % of Vote Change Place Notes
2000 38,121 2.2% N/A 6th
2004 57,332 3.1% Increase0.9% 7th
2008 77,347 3.2% Increase0.1% 4th
2012 98,913 4.5% Increase1.3% 3rd
2016 150,673 5.8% Increase1.3% 3rd
2021 197,976 7.8% Increase2.0% 3rd Best result to date.
2024 145,114 5.8% Decrease2.0% 4th

London Borough Council elections

Date Vote % of Vote Change Councils Change Councillors Change
1990 141,569 5.9% Increase4.7% 0 Steady 0 Steady
1994 48,798 2.2% Decrease3.7% 0 Steady 0 Steady
1998 50,732 2.9% Increase0.7% 0 Steady 2 Increase2
2002 95,394 5.5% Increase2.6% 0 Steady 1 Decrease1
2006 169,160 7.9% Increase2.4% 0 Steady 12 Increase11
2010 248,175 6.6% Decrease1.3% 0 Steady 2 Decrease10
2014 246,805 9.8% Increase3.2% 0 Steady 4 Increase2
2018 211,170 8.6% Decrease1.2% 0 Steady 11 Increase7
2022 276,160 11.9% Increase3.3% 0 Steady 18 Increase7

City of London Corporation elections

The Greens did not field any candidates in the 2022 City of London Corporation election[8]

Candidates for Mayor of London

Notes

  1. ^ This post was known as Principal Speaker(s) until 2008.

References

  1. ^ "Executive Committee". London Green Party. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
  2. ^ "London Green Party". London Green Party. Green Party of England and Wales. Retrieved 2 February 2026.
  3. ^ "Green Party of England and Wales elects new leaders". europeangreens.edu. European Green Party. Archived from the original on 1 April 2017. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  4. ^ "Green leaders: Who came before Caroline Lucas?". BBC News. 31 May 2018. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
  5. ^ http://opencouncildata.co.uk/councils.php?model=L&y=0
  6. ^ http://opencouncildata.co.uk/councils.php?model=L&y=0
  7. ^ Cracknell, Richard; Uberoi, Elise; Burton, Matthew (9 August 2023). "UK Election Statistics: 1918–2023, A Long Century of Elections" (PDF). House of Commons Library. pp. 65–67. Retrieved 28 September 2023.
  8. ^ "Statements of Persons Nominated".
  9. ^ "Zoe4Hackney/status". Twitter. Retrieved 2023-02-12.