The 2024 General election was the first one held under the new constituency boundaries.and it was conducted in a very different political environment to 2019. The eight 2019 constituencies became nine with boundary changes affecting almost every constituency.
Across the region the Green Party made good progress. We stood a candidate in every seat and won 5.9% of the vote, which was an improvement on 2019 when we stood 5 candidates and gained 2.6%. Nationally the Green Party achieved increased vote share from 2.7% in 2019 to 6.7% in 2024. The best Green result in our region was achieved by Lars Kramm in York Central with 12% vote share.
Unfortunately the areas transferred out of our constituency had a strong Green vote, so we faced an uphill battle against a big field of candidates in the new constituency of Richmond and Northallerton. The BBC analysis shows that Kevin Foster, our candidate, gained 4.2% vote share, which is an increase of 0.4% after taking boundary changes into account.
Kevin was also the Green Party candidate in the election for Mayor of York and North Yorkshire combined authority. He fought a very active campaign with many press and media interviews and hustings and achieved a very creditable vote share of 8%.