Greens Come 3rd and Beat Labour in Henley By-Election

2008 HENLEY BY ELECTION RESULT

John Howell: Conservative, 19796, 58.3%, +4.8%
Stephen Kearney: Lib Dems, 9680, 28.5%, +2.5%
Mark Stevenson: Green, 1321, 3.9%, +0.6%
Timothy Rait: BNP, 1243, 3.7%, +3.7%
Richard McKenzie: Labour, 1066, 3.1%, -11.6%
Chris Adams: UKIP, 843, 2.5%, –

THE 2005 RESULT

Boris Johnson, Conservative ,24894 53.5%, +7.4%
David Turner, Liberal Democrat, 12101 26.0%, -1.0 %
Kaleem Saeed, Labour 6862, 14.7%, -6.4 %
Mark Stevenson, Green 1518, 3.3%, +0.7 %
Delphine Gray-Fisk, UK Independence Party, 1162, 2.5%, -0.7

This is the first time that the Greens have beaten Labour in a by-election. It bodes well for Shan Oakes in the upcoming Haltemprice and Howden by-election, who met David Davis yesterday.

As Mark himself put it:

This got national media coverage with Sky and BBC. Got a plug in for Brighton and Oxford East.
Thanks to all who helped. This now means that we are the ONLY party whose vote share has consistently gone up over the last three parliamentary elections here.

We’re already planning for the GE!

regards,
Mark Stevenson
Green candidate for Henley