The Green Party is celebrating yesterday’s Gloucestershire County Council results. The party has more than doubled to nine (from the previous four) following the elections on May 1st.
Cllr Beki Hoyland, interim group leader, said: “These fabulous results are a sign of increasing disillusionment with the two main parties and a growing interest in the Green ethos of social and environmental justice and hard-working local activism. The Greens offer real hope and real change and that’s a message that resonated with the electorate. We are thrilled.”
She added: “With this larger Green group we will have greater influence on decision making in our own right.”
Re-elected County Councillor for Minchinhampton, Cllr Chloe Turner, said: “We are absolutely delighted to get so many of our target candidates elected and to hit our target of doubling the size of the Green group on GCC.
“We have taken three seats from Labour, as well as the new seat of Haresfield and Upton St. Leonards. Tired of the two main parties, so many voters turned to us, attracted by our positive, hopeful message of fairer, greener communities.”
Chloe Turner added: “The icing on the cake was the election of Cate James-Hodges, to the Stroud Central seat of Stroud Central on Stroud District Council. Cate lost to Labour’s David Drew in 2024, and her election this year is testament to the voters of Stroud wanting a dynamic, young, local candidate to represent them.”
The winners were:
Re-elected
Chloe Turner (Stroud: Minchinhampton)
Beki Hoyland (Forest of Dean: Blakeney and Bream)
Chris McFarling (Forest of Dean: Sedbury)
Elected
Gary Luff (Stroud: Bisley & Painswick)
Natalie Rothwell-Warn (Stroud: Stroud Central)
Craig Horrocks (Stroud: Rodborough)
Dr Richard Dean (Stroud: Dursley)
John Patient (Stroud: Haresfield & Upton)
Ian Alexander Cameron (Prestbury and Swindon Village)
Cate James Hodges (Stroud: Stroud Central Stroud District Council by-election)
