Green Party in Northern Ireland

Green Party in Northern Ireland
Party leader	Clare Bailey
vice-chairman	Malachai O'Hara
founding	1983
Headquarters	76 Abbey Street Bangor Northern Ireland
Youth organization	Young Greens
Alignment	Green politics Interdenominationalism Pro-European politics
Colours)	  Green and blue
British House of Commons	0/650
Northern Ireland Assembly	2/90
Local government in Northern Ireland	3/462
Number of members	400 (March 31, 2015)
International connections	Global Greens
European party	European Green Party (EGP)
Website	www.greenpartyni.org

The Green Party in Northern Ireland ( GPNI ) is one of the three major Green Parties in the United Kingdom in the Northern Ireland area .

In May 1983 the Northern Ireland Ecology Party was founded in Belfast , which was renamed the Green Party in 1985 (just like the Green Parties in the rest of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland ) . At its party conference in 2005, the GPNI decided to join the Irish Green Party , which was implemented in 2006. However, close ties continue to exist with the UK's other two Green Parties, the Scottish Green Party and the Green Party of England and Wales . The GPNI will lay claim that it is the only Northern Irish party through this north-south and east-west connections to the Good Friday Agreement ( Good Friday Agreement not only supported) on 10 April 1998 but also by their has actively implemented organizational alignment.

elections

In the 2004 European elections, the Greens got 0.9% of the vote; In 2009 it was 3.3%.

In the run-up to the 2005 local elections, they received a boost in popularity with the addition of two previously independent district MPs (Raymond Blaney from Down and Brian Wilson from North Down ). By joining, the Greens had MEPs elected for the first time. In the elections Wilson was able to maintain his seat, the seat of Blaney (he withdrew from politics) took over Bill Correy. With Ciaran Mussen in the district of Newry and Morne , the Greens then won their first “own” seat in Northern Ireland in the 2007 election for the Northern Ireland Assembly . In total, the Greens in Northern Ireland received 5,703 votes (0.8%). In the 2011 local elections, the party won 6,317 votes (1.0%) and won three seats again.

In the 2007 regional elections, the Green Party received 1.7% of the vote and Brian Wilson a seat in the North Down constituency. In 2011 the Greens achieved 0.9%; Steven Agnew represented the party in the regional parliament. In the following election in 2016 , the share of the vote increased to 2.7% and the party won an additional mandate. Alongside Steven Agnew in the North Down constituency , Clare Bailey was successful in the Belfast South constituency .

Election results

The election results in the following table refer to Northern Ireland (also for the all-British elections). General elections were carried out consistently by majority voting , elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly by preferential voting rights .

year	choice	Share of votes	Seats
1983	General election 1983	0.1%	0/17
1987	General election 1987	0.0%	0/17
1989	European elections 1989	1.2%	0/3
1997	General election 1997	0.1%	0/18
1998	Northern Ireland Assembly 1998	0.1%	0/108
2003	Northern Ireland Assembly 2003	0.4%	0/108
2004	2004 European elections	0.9%	0/3
2007	Northern Ireland Assembly 2007	1.7%	1/108
2009	European elections 2009	3.3%	0/3
2010	General election 2010	0.5%	0/18
2011	Northern Ireland Assembly 2011	0.9%	1/108
2014	European elections 2014	1.7%	0/3
2015	General election 2015	1.0%	0/18
2016	Northern Ireland Assembly 2016	2.7%	2/108
2017	Northern Ireland Assembly 2017	2.3%	2/90
2017	General election 2017	0.9%	0/18
2019	European elections 2019	2.2%	0/3
2019	General election 2019	0.2%	0/18

Web links

• Green Party in Northern Ireland (official website)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Greens working for peaceful progress in Northern Ireland. December 13, 2006, accessed May 31, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Profile: Green Party. BBC News, April 5, 2010, accessed May 31, 2015 . 
3. ^ Northern Ireland and the European Parliament. (Accessed January 20, 2012).
4. ^ The 2005 Local Government Elections in Northern Ireland. (Accessed January 20, 2012).
5. ^ The 2011 Local Government Elections in Northern Ireland. (Accessed January 20, 2012).
6. ^ Northern Ireland Assembly Elections 2007. (Retrieved January 20, 2012).
7. ^ Northern Ireland Assembly Elections 2011. (Accessed January 20, 2012).
8. ↑ Who Won What When and Where? ark.ac.uk (Nicholas Whyte), January 1, 2015, accessed March 8, 2015 . 
9. ↑ Martin Melaugh, Fionnuala McKenna: CAIN Web Service: Results of Elections Held in Northern Ireland Since 1968. cain.ulst.ac.uk, February 9, 2014, accessed on March 8, 2015 . 
10. ↑ European election 2009. BBC News, June 14, 2004, accessed March 8, 2015 . 
11. ↑ European election 2009. BBC News, June 8, 2009, accessed March 8, 2015 . 
12. ↑ European election 2009. BBC News, May 27, 2014, accessed March 8, 2015 .