2019 Scottish Greens co-leadership election
The first Scottish Greens co-leadership election occurred during the summer of 2019, following a newly adopted constitution by the party. One article of the constitution stated that the positions of co-conveners would be abolished in favour of the newly established positions of co-leaders. It also said that at least one of the co-leaders had to be a woman. Both of the former co-conveners, Maggie Chapman and Patrick Harvie, contested the election, but when the results were announced at the Out of Blue Drill Hall in Edinburgh on the 1st of August 2019, only Patrick Harvie was elected, alongside Lorna Slater. All Scottish Green Party members were eligible to vote.
Image: Patrick Havie MSP2013 (cropped)
Image: Official portrait of Lorna Slater MSP
The Scottish Greens are a green political party in Scotland. The party has seven MSPs in the Scottish Parliament as of May 2021. As of the 2022 local elections, the party sits on 13 of the 32 Scottish local councils, with a total of 36 councillors. They held two ministerial posts in the first Yousaf government following a power-sharing agreement with the SNP from August 2021 until the end of the Bute House Agreement in April 2024, marking the first time Green Party politicians formed part of a government in the UK.
Harvie (left) with Eleanor Scott (right), co-convenors of the party between 2008 and 2011
Harvie (left) with Maggie Chapman, co-convenors of the party between 2014 and 2018.
"Green Yes" activists in Edinburgh campaigning for independence, 2014
Edinburgh Green councillors, including Maggie Chapman (top middle)