UK Green Party to field record number of candidates in 2010 election
eGov monitor has an excellent story on the UK Green Party’s plans to field over 300 candidates in the 2010 general elections, including the party’s first full slate in London and 3 candidates who are favored to become the Greens’ first members of parliament. Unlike other European states like Germany and France where Green parties have flourished in a democratic system using proportional representation, the United Kingdom elects its parliament using plurality or “first-past-the-post” voting. Therefore, the electoral growth of the UK Green Party should be of special interest to Greens in America, where Congress and state legislatures are still elected with first-past-the-post voting.
