2nd May

Fi Macmillan won the Nailsworth seat in a hard fought campaign by 28 votes so that we now have 6 councillors on Stroud District Council only one behind Labour. For full results for Stroud, Gloucester and Cheltenham click on 'Read More' below.

Stroud District

See some photos from the count and Stroud election campaign here. 

Here is the full list of all Stroud District Council results in alphabetical order - we came second in five seats - a great basis to work from:
 
Amberley and Woodchester: Conservatives 452, Greens (Jen Whiskerd) 151 (18.1%), Labour 131, LDs 98.
 
Berkeley: Conservatives 861, Labour 295, Greens (Chris Keppie) 126 (9.8%).
 
Cainscross: Labour 757, Conservatives 648, Greens (Helen Royall) 195 (10.8%), LDs 192.
 
Chalford: Conservatives 1,217, Greens (Carolyn Billingsley) 633 (29.2%), Labour 195, UKIP 121.
 
Dursley: Conservatives 647, LDs 608, Labour 531, Greens (Gillian Stott) 97 (5.1%).
 
Eastington and Standish: Labour 288, Conservatives 277, Greens (Gerald Hartley) 82 (12.6%).
 
Hardwicke: Conservatives 875, Labour 227, Greens (Sally Pickering) 160 (12.6%).
 
Kingswood: LDs 309, Conservatives 187, Greens (Sue Fleming) 118 (19.2%).
 
Minchinhampton: Conservatives 1,112, Greens (Marie Gwynn) 275 (17.6%), Labour 175.
 
Nailsworth: Greens (Fi Macmillan) 1,028 (43.1%), Conservatives 1,000, Labour 229, BNP 67, UKIP 61.
 
Painswick: Conservatives 1,229, Greens (Elinor Croxall) 371 (20.8%), Labour 181.
 
Rodborough: Conservatives 516, LDs 465, Greens (Phil Blomberg) 446 (27.7%), Labour 178.
 
Severn: Conservatives 961, LDs 306, Labour 206, Greens (Annie Finlay-Trotter) 114 (7.2%).
 
Stonehouse: Conservatives 843, Labour 806, Greens (Clare Sheridan) 237 (11.8%), UKIP 118.
 
The Stanleys: Conservatives 718, Labour 316, Greens (Tony McNulty) 190 (13.8%), LDs 150.
 
Upton St. Leonards: Conservatives 710, Greens (Peter Adams) 114 (12.6%), Labour 76.
 
Wotton-under-Edge: LDs 1,014, Conservatives 979, Greens (Martin Harvey) 258 (11.4%).
 
We were not defending any seats this year, so we now have six District Councillors - Fi Macmillan, John Marjoram, Martin Whiteside, Philip Booth, Sarah Lunnon and Gwen Belcher. The make-up of Stroud District Council is now: Conservatives 31, Labour 7, Greens 6, LDs 5, Independents 2.

Cheltenham Borough

Green party won 7% of votes and beat Labour in two wards and got 4% in the other two wards in which they stood.

Photo: John Heywood at count 

Gloucester City

Bryan Meloy got 130 votes (6.8%) of 1908 votes cast in Moreland Ward staying in front of UKIP. Labour held the seat. Jenny got 166 votes in Barton & Tredworth where there were 2 seats up for grabs. Lib Dems held one and Tories took one from Labour with a total of 4329 votes cast.

Other results

 
Norwich results below - see other results here:
http://votegreenparty.org.uk/ 

Finishing the night with an increased number of City Council seats  from 10 to 13, Norwich Green Party has leapfrogged the Liberal  Democrats to become the official opposition on Norwich City Hall, just  2 seats away from the ruling Labour Party.  At the same time, the  Greens have beaten Labour on local election vote share across the  Norwich South Parliamentary constituency by approximately 2000 votes. For the first time, the Norwich Greens also won more votes than Labour  across the entire city. This historic election sees the Norwich Greens become the most  powerful Green Group of councillors in the country. The result also  sets Nelson Ward Green Party Councillor Adrian Ramsay on course to win  Charles Clarke's Norwich South seat, becoming one of the first Green  MPs elected to Westminster.

Councillor Ramsay, Norwich South PPC and Leader of the Green Party  Group on Norwich City Council, said of the results:"I'm delighted that we've achieved such an excellent result. Thousands  of Norwich residents have endorsed our positive campaign based on more   environmentally friendly and socially fair policies for the City  Council. We need more affordable housing, comprehensive recycling  facilities, better energy efficiency and more renewable energy in new  developments and we need to protect the city's natural and historic  assets. With more Green councillors elected I hope that we can get  more of these policies adopted."

The Green Party is now clearly the main challenge to Labour in  Norwich, both on the City Council and as we bid to win the Norwich  South Westminster seat from Charles Clarke at the next General  Election."

The full list of Green gains on Norwich City Council is:Town Close Ward - (Samir Jeraj), Mancroft Ward - (Adrian Holmes), Thorpe Hamlet Ward - (Peter Offord). The Greens also successfully defended the following seats:   Nelson Ward - (Bob Gledhill), Wensum Ward - (Amandine Stone).