For the first time in its history, the Green Party will be fielding a full slate of candidates for the local elections: 66 candidates across all 24 wards in the borough, and a candidate for Mayor of Newham. The party’s aim, it says, is to elect the first opposition councillors in Newham since 2006, in Stratford Olympic Park and Beckton wards, and to beat the Conservatives to become Newham’s second party.
In 2018, the Newham Green Party stood just 11 candidates and in 2014 just two. Standing a full slate in every ward places the party in a strong position to beat the Conservatives across Newham and to firmly define itself as Newham’s second party. No other currently active national party has ever succeeded in fielding a full slate of candidates in Newham, besides Labour and the Conservatives.
Nate Higgins, co-chair of the Newham Green Party, who is standing in Stratford Olympic Park said: “When I set out over a year ago to recruit the widest and most diverse slate of candidates the Newham Green Party has ever fielded, I never even dreamed we would be this successful. In one of the most diverse and young London Boroughs, I am proud we have a slate of candidates who are more like the people we wish to represent than ever before, and who share their experiences. With 66 candidates in this election, we are now in a fantastic position to beat the Conservatives across Newham for the first time ever, and to elect some opposition councillors. I know through my year-round hard work in my home ward of Stratford Olympic Park how excited people are about having the chance to vote Green for the first time, and I know we can win.”
The Greens claim that this slate of candidates represents the party’s most diverse ever, with a wide range of ethnic minority, women, young, working class, and LGBTIQA+ candidates. Almost every ward has at least one woman or non-binary candidate standing.
Danny Keeling, the other co-chair of the Newham Green Party and also a candidate in Stratford Olympic Park said “The Green Party stands ready to give Newham voters the chance to use all of their votes on a Green Party candidate for the first time ever. Greens will not let the people of Newham down like Labour and the Conservatives consistently have.”
The full list of Green candidates:
Beckton
Solveig Bourgeon
Karen Webb Green
Alison McLucas
Boleyn
Peter Bright
Helen Lynch
Roxana Toderascu
Canning Town North
Charlotte Croft
Oscar Lessing
Cassie Leanne Thomas
Canning Town South
Oliver Reynolds
Deb Scott
Benjamin Ian Smith
Custom House
Gareth Bannister
Sean Labode
Rupa Sarkar
East Ham South
Mark Lamptey-Harding
Alex Mchugh
Liam Palmer
East Ham
Tim Boxall
Maddy Catriona
Ed Toso
Forest Gate North
Gary Pendlebury
Mike Spracklin
Forest Gate South
Ben Beeler
Kieren Jones
Emma Sorrell
Green St East
Tassadduq Cheema
Joe Hudson-Small
Rose Waddilove
Green St West
Ron Harris
Adam Mitchell
Joseph Henry Sorrell-Roberts
Little Ilford
Terrence Stamp
Amy Wilson
Waleed Zuoriki
Manor Park
Deyan Atansov
Ros Bedlow
Jenny Duval
Maryland
Chris Brooks
Ainsley Vinall
Plaistow North
Elsa Malki
Francis Moore
Aki Turan
Plaistow South
Nicholas Drew Dowden
Iain Mckeil
Anca Zahan
Plaistow West & Canning Town East
Jacintha Christopher
Christopher Luke Slevin
Peter Whittle
Plashet
Stephen Charles
Joshua Robinson
Royal Albert
Jane Lithgow
Daniel Rodrigues
Royal Victoria
Rob Callender
Gloria Goncalves
Stratford Olympic Park
Nate Higgins
Danny Keeling
Stratford
Pau Ingles
Moira Lascelles
Ed Lynch
Wall End
Melanie Bax
James Peter Buttress
Matthew Talbot Savage
West Ham
Clare Hardy
Lyubo Ivanov
Ben Parker
Mayor of Newham
Rob Callender
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