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The UK Green Party's 15% vote share in the 1989 European Elections was the best result achieved by any Green Party (ever), but whilst Green candidates from countries across Europe were elected, Britain's 'First-past-the-post' voting system denied the UK any Green representation. Under a fully proportional system, the Greens would have returned 12 MEPs. More than anything else, the continued use of 'First-past-the-post' in elections at all levels has kept the Green Party on the fringe of British politics. Following the outcome of the 1989 elections, even the party's strongest supporters were more inclined to vote tactically rather than 'waste' it on the Green Party. And the party went into decline. By the time of the next European Elections in 1994, a greatly depleted Green Party still managed to field a full slate of candidates. As in the 1992 General Election, the press and broadcasting media focused almost entirely on...

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