Green mayoral candidate Sian Berry has welcomed this week’s ICM poll which found that more voters than ever before plan to vote Green in the London mayoral election.
Thirteen percent of those polled said they would consider voting for Berry as their first preference. In the study, commissioned by campaigners Here Now, voters also expressed more concern about environmental issues that ever before, with two thirds saying they would be more likely to vote based on green issues.
In 2012 the Green candidate Jenny Jones came third with 4.5 percent of the first-preference vote. This was party’s best-ever showing up to that point. Since then, membership of the London Green Party has risen fourfold.
“With our surge in members in London – trebling since January alone – and our vote in May’s General Election trebling as well across the city, this poll shows this is our opportunity to build on Jenny Jones’s brilliant third place in 2012 and take centre stage in this campaign,” said Sian Berry.
“With the other candidates battling to show their green credentials, voters already know they can trust us to take immediate steps to cut air pollution and bolder measures to promote cleaner ways of travelling. This poll shows that those priorities strike a chord with a growing number of Londoners.”
She added: “I want London to be a community again – a place where anyone can come and live, work, play, and feel at home – and not just an opportunity for huge property companies to make the biggest profits they can. London belongs to all of us, and the Green campaign will work with communities all over the city to win more power for the people next May.”