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Southville returns two councillors to the Bristol City Council - including, since May 2006, Charlie Bolton, the Greens' first council member.
Tess Green will be our candidate for the other seat, in the 3rd May 2007 elections.
Tess Green lives in the ward, just off North Street. She's lived and worked in South Bristol for over 20 years.
As a Green Party activist she is keen to protect local open spaces from over development, believing that ready access to green space is vital for our physical and mental well being.
Tess also believes that citizens should have control locally over the decisions which affect their daily lives such as public transport, education, health and
leisure services.
The ward
Southville electoral ward is more than what most of us know as Southville - the area bounded by Asda, Coronation Road, North Street down to about the Tobacco Factory.
The ward is bigger. It stretches from the City ground and Bower Ashton to the Bath Road, bordered by the river to the north and, to the south, a bureaucrat's line drawn along the railway, North Street, Blyth Road, and Winterstoke Road.
Votes in Southville
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2000
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2002
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2003
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2006
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Vote
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%
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Vote
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%
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Vote
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%
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Vote
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%
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| GREEN
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160
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4.94
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534
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18.67
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923
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29.20
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1439
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40.60
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| Labour
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1415
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43.70
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1285
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44.93
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1294
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40.94
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1432
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40.41
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| Conservative
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529
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16.34
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494
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17.27
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419
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13.26
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377
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10.64
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| Lib-Dem
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1076
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33.23
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442
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15.45
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306
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9.68
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296
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8.35
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| Bristolian
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159
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5.03
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| Soc. Alternative
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60
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1.90
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| Soc. Alliance
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58
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1.79
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105
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3.67
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The Greens' Progress
For many years, Greens have stood for more recycling, traffic calming, strong local economies. It is gratifying to see that even the government is starting to take notice.
A proposal for 20mph zones in urban areas first appeared in a 1992 Bristol South Green Party general election manifesto. We called for 'Home Zones' before the term had been invented (they used to be known as 'Woonerfs' a Dutch term meaning living streets!)
The threat of fines has at last brought our under-performing council to take recycling seriously. It now plans to introduce green waste recycling (our policy in the last council elections here), and we hope they will take up our policy for plastic recycling - though the signs so far are poor.
Having strong local economies has been central to our wish for a more sustainable society. So it is indeed gratifying to see the Sustainable Southville Project take actions to promote North Street.
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