Jenny Jones will run for London Mayor in 2012
Three-term London Assembly Member Jenny Jones has been selected as the Green Party’s candidate for Mayor of London.
In a ballot of London party members, Jones received 458, or 66%, of the 1st preference votes.
Shahrar Ali, parliamentary candidate for Brent Central last year, took 133 1st preference votes (19%), and Farid Bakht, who ran in Bethnal Green & Bow, was the first choice of 90 members (13%).
Six members voted to re-open nominations, and two papers were spoiled, out of a total of 689 ballots received. You can watch the returning officer formally announce these results at the Tower Hamlets Greens Facebook page.
All three candidates are also seeking nomination as London-wide members of the Assembly.
I like this quote from The Guardian:
“But I see the Green candidate as this little mammal that is actually the future. You know there little voles or rats or something coming through the middle and representing the future, and that’s how I see the Green party.”
I can see that coming back to haunt her – but that aside I think she’s an excellent candidate.
@digital scotsman. She talks about cuts a lot here, thankfully!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12799249
Farid also didn’t respond, or give a reason for not responding, to the email hustings either for Mayoral or List selections which I think will have hurt his votes too. It’s a shame, he seemed like a genuinely interesting candidate.
i believe london green party has at least double the members that took part in this poll. Jenny Jones is a good candidate but she feels like the safe choice and in the current environment it would be nice to be more daring. Im also concerned that she is to close to ken livingstone and would like to see her stress the differences between the green party and labour and not the middle ground.
I suspect Farid would have got more votes but he didn’t reply to an animal rights questionnaire, where as all the other candidates did!
Elliot – No official word but I’m hearing the London-wide Assembly result will be on Tuesday.
For the constituency selection, different constituencies have different timetables. For example, I know nominations for North-East haven’t even closed yet.
Here’s hoping she is a coherent voice against the cuts as well as the passionate advocate of ‘traditional’ green issues for which she is best known. If I remember right she hardly mentioned the cuts at all in her candidate statement….
Any news on the Assembly selection?!