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Committee Elections

Committee Election Results

Thank you to everyone who put themselves forward for election to the branch committee. The following team have been elected:

  • Co-Convenors: Zoe Clelland and Phil Towers
  • Committee Secretary: Iina Alexandra Jaara
  • Membership Secretary: Jule Bandel
  • Treasurer: Becky Luff
  • Elections Agent: Alan Duggan
  • Elections Campaign Coordinator: Fraser May
  • Local Teams Development Officer: Kate Nevens
  • Policy & Campaigns Officer (x2): Yasmin Luqman and Helen McCabe
  • Communications Coordinator (x2): Harriet Hall and Helen Raftopoulos
  • Events Officer: Ben Parker
  • Fundraising Officer: Jenny Smith
  • Accessibility, Inclusion and Wellbeing Officer: Alys Mumford
  • Welfare and Conduct Officer: Andrew Brough
  • Ordinary Member: Viktoria Sucakova and Tristan Gray
  • Leith and Leith Walk sub-branch rep: Mariusz Cebulski
  • South East Edinburgh Greens sub-branch rep: Breck Macgregor
  • South Edinburgh Greens sub-branch rep: Emma Willson

Unfilled Positions (for election at the AGM)

Voting for next year’s Edinburgh Branch committee has now closed and votes have been counted - the results will be announced *live* at the AGM! After voting, there are 2 positions which remain unfilled:

  • 1 x Co-Convenor*
  • 1 x Fundraising Officer**

We will be asking people to put themselves forward for these positions on the night. The branch has elected a fantastic committee so please do consider getting involved - it’s an excellent opportunity to make some brilliant friends and make a difference. If you are considering putting yourself forward for either position on the night of the AGM, please contact the branch Co-Convenors Kate and Ben on convenors.edin@scottishgreens.org.uk.

*to run for this position you must have been a member of the party for 1 year or more. However, if you would like to run for this position but do not meet this requirement please contact the current Co-Convenors Kate and Ben to discuss this as we may be able to get special dispensation! convenors.edin@scottishgreens.org.uk

** to meet our gender balancing requirements, this position is only open to women or non binary people

Candidates for Edinburgh Branch Committee (2021-2022)

Download a PDF document of all candidate statements and lists of roles they are contesting

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Read statements from each individual candidate and the roles they are contesting below:

Voting for committee positions has now closed. Results will be announced at the AGM on 24 June 2021.

Running for Committee

Find out more about the Committee | Find out how to submit your nomination

The following Committee positions are available:

  • Co-Convener (x2) *
  • Committee Secretary (a)
  • Membership Secretary (a) *
  • Treasurer (b) *
  • Elections Agent (b)
  • Election Campaign Coordinator (c)
  • Local Teams Development Officer (c)
  • Policy and Campaigns Officer (x2)
  • Communications Coordinator (x2)
  • Events officer (d)
  • Fundraising officer (d)
  • Accessibility, Inclusion and Wellbeing Officer (e)
  • Welfare and Conduct Officer (e) *
  • Ordinary Member (x2)

*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.

How we handle the count

In this election we encourage candidates to run for many positions. We've also enforcing gender balance rules. 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.

Gender balance

To implement our gender balance rules (described in the committee roles document), we worked as follows:

  • We run the election process. If the result satisfies all gender balance rules, we’re done. If it doesn’t, we eliminate a man from one of the races and try again.

  • We eliminate the man blocking a woman from election who is “least appropriate” to his role, in the sense that somebody who ranked co-co as their #1 position and who was voted co-co #1 by members is very appropriate, while somebody in their #3 preferred position, voted there #2 by members, is less so.

  • We work from men triggering the most specific gender balance rules to the least specific ones, since fixing a very specific violation (like two male co-cos) may also help satisfy a less-specific rule (such as 50% of committee being female).

  • In some elections we shorten the slate when there are too few women standing: in those, men may be eliminated even if they’re not blocking a woman from election.

  • Non-binary candidates will be contacted individually to discuss how they would like to be treated in regard to gender balancing.

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

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