A big Green thank you to everyone who helped us achieve our best parliamentary vote ever in Dover and Deal. Our fourth position sends a loud message to the incoming government that many voters want cleaner, less lobby-laden government.
Our supporters made it clear to us that they like the fact that our Green Party does not have self-interested multi-millionaire donors to satisfy. They appreciate this is the reason Green Party candidates, MPs and councillors are free to focus 100% on the needs of the communities they represent.
During the short six week election campaign, Christine Oliver, our clued up, determined, locally resident candidate did more than any other to meet and listen to concerns of local voters. The Labour, Reform and Conservative parties that polled first, second and third place ahead of us in the Dover and Deal constituency, threw so many more leaflets and so much more money at voters than we did, because they have the money from self-interested lobby groups. We prefer to depend on local citizens, and to campaign for a cleaned up political system, less influenced by multi-millionaires, with fairer voting.
In Dover and Deal, Christine Oliver was one of 15 Green candidates across Kent who polled between 5.2% and 15.1% on 4th July. We polled 6.5% in Dover and Deal where 62% of people registered to vote did decide to vote. More evidence that our policies and our hard work has made us the fastest growing party in Kent as regards councils.
Across Kent we have 54 people elected to district / borough councils and 5 elected to KCC. We’ll keep on working in the community and on town councils here, to help us all get through what will continue to be tough times. In Kent we hope to have a bigger team elected in May 2025 to get more work done at KCC next year. Thank you also to the many people signing up since the July results to join the local Green Party using the link join.greenparty.org.uk.