UK: Green Party Elects First MP

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In what was widely expected to be one of the most unusual United Kingdom General Elections for many years, with no party gaining an overall majority, a piece of electoral history was made. In the early hours of 7 May 2010, the England and Wales Green Party candidate, Caroline Lucas, was elected as MP for Brighton Pavilion, becoming the first member of her party to take a seat at Westminster.