For those that didn’t see updates on twitter the day after the elections, below are the election results for all openly trans politicians who stood in May’s Local and European Elections.
Spoiler: Nobody won.
This ends a 14 year run of openly trans politicians being elected in the UK. I doubt this will make any direct difference to campaigning for trans rights, which is done via internal party structures and external campaigning quite separate from district and European councils, but it’s certainly not good. Whilst nobody listed had been the holy grail of a safe seat, there was certainly no lack of winnable seats – I only lost my own election by 10 votes, and Anwen Muston failed to gain a seat by just 36. Press narrative before the election also gave Anna Booth and Charlie Kiss a reasonable chance of winning and Sarah Brown was restanding in her own seat.
In the tables below, entries for openly trans folk are in bolded and italics indicate the winner(s). Entries are listed in order of how close the result was.
Trafford, Davyhulme East |
Conservative |
1256 |
Anna May Booth, Labour |
973 |
UKIP |
509 |
Green |
134 |
Liberal Democrats |
63 |
Socialist Labour |
41 |
Islington, Highbury East (All-up) |
Labour​ |
1514 1430 |
Green |
1214 |
Labour |
1206 |
Liberal Democrats |
1204 1185 1138 |
Charlie Kiss, Green​ |
867 |
Green |
721 |
Conservative |
411 375 |
UKIP |
247 |
European Parliament, West Midlands |
UKIP (3 elected) |
428,010 |
Labour (2 elected) |
363,033 |
Conservative (2 elected) |
330,470 |
Liberal Democrat |
75,648 |
Green |
71,464 |
An Independence from Europe |
27,171 |
We Demand a Referendum (Nikki Sinclaire) |
23,426 |
BNP |
20,643 |
English Democrats |
12,832 |
NO2EU |
4,653 |
Harmony Party |
1,857 |
Updated January 2015: One person who was out at the time of their election was been removed from the list at their request.
what is interesting is that we are all over the political spectrum from the left of the greens to main stream right wing party – conservative, liberal democrats and labour, whilst I suspect Nikki would still be a MEP if it hadn’t been for the way that she was treated by Farage. Meantime I know members of the community who support anarcho-syndicalist views and others who support the sort of views that were held to be classic labour before labour went right wing.
all this is really really cool, especially as i can remember the days when i was told that you couldn’t be a lesbian if you didn’t vote labour etc.
btw in the interest of openness I tactically voted lib-dem (despite they all seem to be orange bookers these days) at council level and Green at European level, with the hope that the greens don’t return to their right wing roots
It interests me how people will turn a blind eye to these type of issues when the party ticks the other boxes, it makes me think Russel brand was right with his recent “dont accept the best of a bad bunch” comments