Northavon Green Party covers the area of the parliamentary constituency of Northavon in South Gloucestershire. This includes the wards of Almondsbury, Alveston, Badminton, Charfield, Chipping Sodbury, Dodington North, Frampton Cotterell Central, Frampton Cotterell East, Frampton Cotterell West, Hawkesbury, Iron Acton, Marshfield, Oldbury-on-Severn, Olveston, Pilning and Severn Beach, Pucklechurch, Thornbury North, Thornbury South, Westerleigh and Coalpit Heath, Wick and Abson, Wickwar, Winterbourne, Winterbourne Down and Hambrook, Winterbourne Frenchay, Yate Central, Yate North, Yate South, Yate Stanshawes and Yate West.

Northavon mostly covers the more rural parts of South Gloucestershire, mostly to the north and east of Bristol. The towns in Northavon include some historic market towns, such as Thornbury and Chipping Sodbury, commuter towns such as Almondsbury and towns with significant employment, such as Yate.

Northavon is under pressure from developers, because of the M4 and M5 going through the constituency. South Gloucestershire has recently seen widespread development of houses and jobs around the north of the Bristol urban area, and the area of Northavon constituency has contracted as the population expanded.

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Elections

At the general election in 2005, Alan Pinder stood as candidate for the Green Party. We stand candidates at South Gloucestershire elections and parish elections in Northavon. South Gloucestershire is all elected in one big election each four years. The next such election is due in May 2007.

Boundary changes

The constituency of Northavon is scheduled to be replaced before the next general election by two constituencies, as follows:

FILTON AND BRADLEY STOKE CONSTITUENCY. Eleven wards of South Gloucestershire:- Almondsbury, Bradley Stoke, Baileys Court, Bradley Stoke Bowsland, Bradley Stoke Sherbourne, Downend, Filton, Patchway, Pilning & Severn Beach, Staple Hill, Stoke Gifford, and Winterbourne.

THORNBURY AND YATE CONSTITUENCY. Fifteen wards of South Gloucestershire: - Alveston, Boyd Valley, Charfield, Chipping Sodbury, Cotswold Edge, Dodington, Frampton Cotterell, Ladden Brook, Severn, Thornbury North, Thornbury South, Westerleigh, Yate Central, Yate North, and Yate West.