North Tyneside Greens are celebrating the strongest general election results ever, Comparing this year’s results from the four new constituencies that are fully or partly made up of North Tyneside voters, the total vote share is up significantly with a record 8.7% of the vote.
The figures
In Tynemouth, the only constituency that is totally in North Tyneside, the candidate Chloe-Louise Reilly tripled the Green vote share from the 2019 election with 7.4% of the vote (up 5%). The party retained their deposit in all but one of the new constituencies and were placed above the Liberal Democrats in three out of four of them. In Newcastle East & Wallsend where Matt Williams came in third with a notable 12.4% of the vote (up 8.6%), they even beat the Tories! In Newcastle North, Sarah Peters came 5th with 10.4% of the vote (up 6.3%) and in Cramlington and Killingworth, Ian Jones more than doubled their vote, coming in 4th with 4.7% of the vote (up 2.2%).
This builds on the Green Party’s recent even bigger share of the votes from the local elections where they polled at an average of 14.1% of the total votes over the whole borough.
“Grab the moment”
Ian Appleby, Elections Officer for North Tyneside Green Party said: “This kind of result is exactly what we’ve been hoping for – and shows that people are now seeing that a vote for the Greens is no longer a protest vote – it’s a real vote for change. We are ready to move onward and upward and we’re calling on all our members
and supporters to grab this moment and help us build on this success for a future we can all believe in and be proud of.”
All figures were taken from bbc.co.uk Election 2024.
This article is based on a press release from North Tyneside Green Party.
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