Worcester Green Party has done amazingly well.

Here in Battenhall I was re-elected for a second time and with an increased share of the vote – 68% is not too shabby – thank you for your support.

The Greens won another seat and we now have 12 of the 35 city councillors. Across the whole city the support for each party was as follows:

Party	Votes	Share
Green	18,346	33%
Lab	16,446	30%
Con	11,084	20%
LD	7,894	14%
Ind	1,288	2%
UKIP	68	0%
TUSC	207	0%
Reform	297	1%

For the second year running the Green Party won the city wide, so called, popular vote.

These excellent results unfortunately did not translate directly into council seats. The number of seats on the council for each party is now as follows: As you can see due to first past the post Labour got fewer votes but the most council seats.

Labour:           17 seats
Green:             12 seats
Lib Dems:        5 seats
Conservatives: 1 seat

18 seats are needed to form a majority council so the council remains in no overall control

At the first full council meeting after the elections the Leader and Deputy Leader and all the chair and vice chairs of committees get appointed. The Green Party offered to work with Labour to create a stable and collaborative council but that offer was rejected and with support from the lone Conservative and Lib Dem councillors we now have a Labour led minority council.

The Green Party is now effectively the main opposition party on the council. We’ll put forward our own ideas and support every idea on which we agree but we will scrutinise and hold the Labour Party to account when ever we believe they are making a mistake.

As I write this blog the General Election has just been called. The Conservatives in Worcester are in disarray. They clearly struggled to field a full slate of candidates at the city council elections and have no real prospect of winning the parliamentary seat here in Worcester. Electoral Calculus has put the chances of a Labour victory in Worcester at 97%. National opinion polls will I’m sure narrow a bit as we get closer to the election, but with Labour leads of over 20% in the polls anything but a very large Labour majority would now be a big surprise.

So whoever you normally vote for, given that Labour are going to win big nationally, would you be prepared at this election to vote with your heart and vote for the Green Party?

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