Contact & History

Cheltenham has a growing and increasingly active Green Party ~ get involved and help us get the first Green Councillor elected in Cheltenham.

 

Contact Details & Meetings:

Cheltenham Green Party meetings – Join us at our monthly meetings. For further information please contact Adrian Becker on 01242 582100 or cheltenhamgreenparty@live.co.uk

 

The Cheltenham Green Party regularly field candidates in all the local elections but have yet to get their break through, in terms of getting a councillor elected. Green votes are increasing and campaigning will pay off.

 

Tactical voting is a feature of elections and has worked before. Yet all three parties now have very similar policies. A vote for one of these parties makes very little difference, whereas with one or more Green councillors we could show that there was a different way of doing politics.

 

Springbank By-Election 28th October 2010

There were 1087 votes which equal a 20% turnout this compares to 23% in May for Borough & General.

Liberal Democrats 722 = 66%
Conservatives 188
Labour 142
Greens 35 = 3%

We shouldn’t be too disappointed with the result, this was after all a by-election after the death of a very popular Liberal councillor.

Cheltenham Green Party Local Election Results – May 2010:

Candidates at the count! Matt Hodgkinson, Jon Stubbings, Birgit Whitman, John Heywood, Cathy Green & Ian Lander.

Cheltenham Greens did well in the Borough elections.

We stood in 12 wards, many more than ever before. And across those wards we polled an average of 6.3% of the votes.  This is an improvement on our share of the vote from last year’s county election.

We worked monthly in St Pauls Ward and were rewarded by 10% of the vote.

Ward	Name	Number of votes	% of votes cast in that ward
All Saints	Ian	164	6.1%
Benhall & TheReddings	Birgit	155	4.9%
Charlton Kings	Sarah	222	6.5%
College	Vanessa	223	7.3%
Lansdown	John	205	7.4%
Leckhampton	Tim	216	6.4%
Park	Jon	257	6.8%
Pittville	Cathy	151	5.1%
St Marks	Sherri	131	4.7%
St Pauls	Adrian	210	10.0%
Up Hatherley	Matt	125	3.9%
Warden Hill	Adam	219	6.7%
Total votes in these 12 wards		2278	6.3% of votes in these 12 wards

31st July 2009

Green Party candidate Cathy Green polled ahead of Labour in third place in the Cheltenham Borough

Council All Saints ward by-election. The seat was won by the Liberal Democrats who had held the seat previously.

Cathy Green’s statement:

“I live and work in Cheltenham and as well as being a member of the Green Party and the local Friends of the Earth group, I’m also a trustee of environmental charity, Vision 21 (Gloucestershire).

“I recently researched a carbon footprint analysis of Gloucestershire for Vision 21 so have a good understanding of the potential areas of carbon reduction within Gloucestershire that I can use to influence the county’s policies.

“I am aware that climate change and peak oil together represent the greatest challenges to Gloucestershire’s future and will do everything in my power to ensure that our county is fully prepared for the challenges ahead.

“Greens argue that we need a sense of urgency to tackle climate change that is a threat to our children and grand- children. We are in the politics business because we care.”

Results:   

Greens            57

Cons               395

Labour            37

LibDems          680

Turn out: 27.1%