Results
Green results in Brighton & Hove, Friday 8th June, 2001
Happy Green, sad Labour: Green Party parliamentary candidate for Brighton Pavilion, Cllr Keith Taylor, follows Labour MP David Lepper down the stairs in the Brighton Centre after the 2001 general election result was announced. Almost one in ten voters in Brighton Pavilion voted Green. Keith Taylor scored the highest Green vote in the country, almost quadrupling the Green vote.
Brighton & Hove Greens' Full Slate
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| Hugh 'Barney' Miller | Cllr Keith Taylor | Anthea Ballam |
| Green 1,290 3.29% | Green 3,808 9.35% | Green 1,369 3.26% |
| Kemp Town | Pavilion | Hove |
One in ten vote Green in General Election in Brighton Pavilion Constituency.
Nearly one in ten voters in Brighton Pavilion constituency voted Green in the General Election on June 7, giving the constituency the highest Green vote in the country.
Cllr Keith Taylor, Green Party Candidate for Brighton Pavilion, won 9.35% of the vote with a swing of 6.8% to the Greens, compared with a fall in the Labour and Tory vote of 5.9% and 2.6% respectively.
Cllr Taylor said,
"Brighton's voters have sent a message to Tony Blair that 'business as usual' on issues of social justice and the environment is simply not good enough. Their vote is an endorsement of Green Party solutions which put ordinary people and the environment we live in first, ahead of big business and corporate power.
"It is also a landmark result for the people of Brighton & Hove and their local Green Party, particularly in the light of the near total national news blackout on the Greens as well as an undemocratic election system. We can now build on these solid electoral foundations with a view to gaining Green Councillors in the City Council elections in 2003."
Creditable scores of 3.3% were also achieved by Anthea Ballam in Hove and Hugh Miller in Brighton Kemp Town in the difficult conditions of marginal seats.
