The Scottish Green Party will elect two co-leaders from four nominees: Dominic Ashmole, Ross Greer, Gillian Mackay and Lorna Slater. The membership ballot opened on 13 August and closed last Friday, with results announced at 10:00 at the Scottish Poetry Library. No candidates ran as a slate, allowing any combination of two winners. Three nominees are current MSPs; Ashmole most recently stood in the 2024 General Election. Patrick Harvie will step down after 17 years as co-leader but will seek re-election as an MSP. The Greens entered government in 2021 under the Bute House Agreement and held ministerial roles; the power-sharing deal collapsed in April 2024 amid internal tensions and controversy over regional list placings.
PA Media The Scottish Green Party will announce the winners of its leadership election on Friday. The party will elect two co-leaders from four nominees; Dominic Ashmole, Ross Greer, Gillian Mackay and Lorna Slater. The party said no candidates were running as a slate, so any combination of two out of the four could be elected. Typically, a male and female co-convener is elected. The results will be announced at 10:00 during an event at the Scottish Poetry Library.
Three of the four nominations are currently sitting MSPs. Slater has been co-leader along with Harvie since 2019 and is a Lothian regional MSP. Greer represents West Scotland while Mackay represents Central Scotland. Ashmole most recently stood for the Scottish Greens in the 2024 General Election in the Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale seat which was retained by Conservative David Mundell.
One of the two current co-leaders, Patrick Harvie, announced earlier this year that he was stepping down from the role. Harvie has been at the helm of the party for 17 years, making him Holyrood's longest serving party chief. He will still seek to be re-elected as an MSP at next year's Holyrood election. Harvie and Slater got the party into government in 2021 after signing the Bute House Agreement with the SNP.
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