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Committee Elections

Running for Committee

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**Nominations for committee have now closed and voting will run from 3 to 15 June **

The following Committee positions are available for election in June 2026.

See the role descriptions document for details of what is involved.

  • Co-Convener * (x2)
  • Clerk (x2)
  • Treasurer *
  • Welfare and Conduct Officer * (x2)
  • Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer (x2)
  • Elections Agent
  • Policy officers (x2)
  • Sub-branches and Member Support Officer * (x2)
  • Elections and Campaigns Officer (x2)
  • Communications Officer – External (x1)
  • Communications Officer – Social media (x1)
  • Communications Officer – Internal (x1)
  • Events and Engagement Officer (x2)
  • Ordinary Member - Sub-branches and Member Support Group (x4)
  • Ordinary Member - Elections and Campaigns Group (x4)
  • Ordinary Member - Communications Group – External (x1)
  • Ordinary Member - Communications Group – Social Media (x1)
  • Ordinary Member - Communications Group – Internal (x1)
  • Ordinary Member - Events and Engagement Group (x4)
  • Ordinary Member - Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Group (x4)

*to run for these roles, you need to have been a member of the party for one year. If you do not meet this criteria, please contact convenors.edin@scottishgreens.org.uk and we can discuss options to resolve this.

Gender balance

We encourage people to stand for election who are under-represented in Green politics or politics as a whole. This includes – though is not restricted to – women, young greens, LGBTQ+ greens, greens of colour or disabled greens.

The Scottish Green Party has long made use of a gender quota to help achieve diverse representation in party committees and among our elected representatives. Last year the UK Supreme Court unfortunately ruled that associations like our party can no longer do this in a way that is inclusive. We know that there is greater trust in decisions by gender balanced committees, and the party has spoken out against this ruling. While this is a considerable set-back, we can still achieve gender balance, but we will need to vote for it! The committee of 2025/2026 asks that you bear this in mind when voting, and to support women, non-binary people and trans people to join the committee.

There are many opportunities to contribute to campaigning in various ways, and we would ask men elected to the committee to reflect on whether they would be willing to step down in cases where this would improve the diversity of gender representation of their working group or officer/co-convenorship role.

Please contact the current EDI officers on access.edin@scottishgreens.org.uk, if you have questions or concerns about standing for election to the committee.

Interested in one of the roles above? Read the role descriptions for the above positions. Please contact the branch co-conveners on convenors.edin@scottishgreens.org.uk to discuss further.

If you are interested in standing, please see here for more information on how to submit your nomination.

Please note that the deadline for submitting your nomination is Sunday 31 May 2026.

How we handle the count

In this election we encourage candidates to run for many positions. Here's a brief outline of the process. Candidates will be elected to their positions as follows:

  1. Candidates list the positions they’re standing for in order of preference.

  2. We run an election for each position in order to get our members’ ranked preferences among the candidates for each position.

  3. Where one candidate wins multiple positions and can’t hold them simultaneously, they take their preferred one, leaving other positions they won vacant for the moment.

  4. So long as there are vacant positions and candidates running for them, we continue down the members’ vote rankings making more offers, with candidates’ preferences deciding the toss whenever they have more than one offer open to them.

  5. This can mean that candidates lined up for one position get offered another later in the process if the voters want them for it: they’ll “trade up” if they prefer the new offer, in which case their “old” position gets re-offered, to voters’ next favourite candidate.

  6. The result is that positions are filled in a way that best satisfies both our members’ and our candidates’ wishes.

For full details of the process, please contact convenors.edin@scottishgreens.org.uk.

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