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Originally Posted by Dissident Congress
I am intrigued to know exactly who votes for the Green Party.
The Greens are a very London centric party and about a third of their membership and a high proportion of their senior figures live inside the M25.
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The Green vote in the ward I live in was quite high in the May 2006 London Borough Elections. They seem to have done well around here despite having had no campaign to speak of (I never got a Green leaflet; never saw any Green window posters and only learnt they were standing when I went to vote).
The Greens are getting votes from London leftist professionals - I don't think for one moment that they have much working class support.
They also do quite well in Brighton's Pavilion constituency (almost coming a very good second in the seat in last year's General Election) and in small sections of Bristol and Birmingham. I think they also have a concentration of elected councillors in Oxford (home of some professional graduate voters and employees of the university).
At the moment the Green Party is probably getting some of the anti-Iraq 'war' protest vote - but this will largely move back to Labour after Blair resigns as Prime Minister and when the start of the withdrawal of British soldiers from Iraq commences.
I believe that there is a point at which the Green Party will reach its electoral 'ceiling' (i.e. where it will not be able to increase its vote further). It has probably almost reached that point in some areas. In many areas of the country the Green Party hasn't got a hope anyway.
The latest opinion poll in the pro-Green and pro-EU 'Independent' newspaper puts support for the Greens at 5% - very high. However, recent talk of global warming by David Cameron appears to have delivered extra votes to the Greens - and not to him. Which is what I thought would happen.