page_title: 2016 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election
section_title: Deputy Leadership
hierarchical_section_title: 2016 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election / Results summary / Deputy Leadership
caption_attribution_description: English: Jonathan Bartley and Caroline Lucas at the Green Party Conference.
context_page_description: The Green Party of England and Wales leadership election, 2016 took place from July to August 2016, with the campaign period taking place in July, and voting period in August. The incumbent leader, Natalie Bennett, announced on 15 May 2016 that she was not intending to stand for re-election after four years as the leader of the party, resulting in the first contested leadership election since 2012.
  Former Leader Caroline Lucas MP and Jonathan Bartley won the leadership election with a job share arrangement with 86% of the vote; the results were announced at the party's Autumn Conference from 2–4 September. Five other candidates contested the election; aside from filmmaker David Malone, no other candidate received above 5% of the vote.
  The party has elections every two years for Leader and Deputy Leader roles; this was the fifth election since the party decided to switch from having principal speakers to having a leader and two deputy leaders, or co-leaders and one deputy leader. It saw the highest ever turnout in a Green Party internal ballot by quantity of votes.
context_section_description: Bartley/Lucas won the leadership contest with 86% of first preference votes, on an increased turnout from the previous leadership election and the previous contested leadership election. Womack was re-elected as deputy leader.
  They saw off competition from five others to succeed Natalie Bennett, who is stepping down after four years.
  Ms Lucas, the Greens' only MP, was leader of the party between 2008 and 2012 while Mr Bartley is the party's work and pensions spokesman.
  The two said the joint election showed the party was "not bound by tradition".
  Their joint ticket took 13,570 – 88% – of the 15,467 votes cast. The party says co-leadership is "a first in Westminster politics".
  The announcement was made at the party's autumn conference in Birmingham, at which Amelia Womack was also elected deputy leader.
caption: Lucas and Bartley after the results were declared.
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