Welcome to North Lancashire Green Party

Some History: From Lancaster City Council, to Lancashire County Council, to Europe

Our first 5 Green Councillors were elected to Lancaster City Council in 1999. This rose to 7 in 2003, to 12 in
In 2007, down to 8 in 2011, up to 10 in 2019, to 21 in 2023, and up to 23 in 2024.

In 2001, Jonathon Sear became our first person elected to Lancashire County Council.

Jon Barry was Lancaster’s first Green Mayor in 2015/16. 

Cllr Gina Dowding, a City Councillor (since 1999), and County Councillor for Lancaster Central (since 2013) was also (briefly – before Brexit!) a Green Member of the European Parliament for the North West.

You can learn more about Gina’s work at all levels at GinaDowding.org.uk/

We have been part of a shared administration of Lancaster City Council with other political parties since 2019. 

Cllr Caroline Jackson was the first Green Leader of the Council from 2021-23.

In the 2023 Local Elections we won 21 (out of 61) seats on Lancaster City Council and emerged with 4 Councillors in the Joint Administration Cabinet along with 5 Labour and 1 Liberal Democrat Councillors.

Greens hold the portfolios of Finance, Housing, Climate Emergency, and Economic Development. Cllr Caroline Jackson became the Deputy Leader.

In the 2024 General Election

Jack Lenox for Lancaster and Wyre received 5,236 votes, a 12.2% vote share – higher than 2015, our previous best, and triple our vote share in the last General Election in 2019.

Gina Dowding for Morecambe and Lunesdale received 2,089 votes, a 4.3% vote share.

Several resignations of Labour Councillors in 2024, and 2 by-election Green wins: in University Ward in July, and in Scotforth East in October, lead to a shift where we replaced Labour as the largest group on Lancaster City Council with 23 Councillors.

This makes us the joint second biggest group of elected Greens in the UK, along with Mid-Suffolk who also have 23 Green Councillors. Only Bristol has an even bigger elected Green Group, with 34.

For 2024/25, Cllr Abi Mills is the Mayor and her son Cllr Hamish Mills is the Deputy Mayor. You can follow the events of their mayoral year on Facebook – Mayor of Lancaster.


This website is new as of August 2024. Please bear with us while we learn how to use it, and transfer some of the content from the archives of our old website.

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This website was created for us by the national party and our old website deleted, in August 2024. Please bear with us while we learn how to use it.

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