However, despite the first past the post system in the United Kingdom, the Green Party of England and Wales won their first seat in the House of Commons when Caroline Lucas won the seat of Brighton Pavilion.

At the 2010 British election, Brighton Kemptown and Hove both elected Conservative MPs, Simon Kirby and Mike Weatherley respectively, while Brighton Pavilion elected Caroline Lucas, the first Green MP ever elected to Westminster.

The party currently has one Member of Parliament in the House of Commons, Caroline Lucas, who represents the constituency of Brighton Pavilion, and was the party's first leader, serving from 2008 until 2012, when she was succeeded by Natalie Bennett.

In the 1999 European elections, two Greens were elected Members of the European Parliament ( MEPs ), Dr Caroline Lucas ( South East England ) and Jean Lambert ( London ).

In 2010, Keith Taylor succeeded Caroline Lucas as MEP for South East England, following her election to the House of Commons.

It went on to win 285, 616 votes in England and Wales in the 2010 General Election ,, with Party leader Caroline Lucas winning the Brighton Pavilion seat.

Caroline Lucas was elected Leader, and Adrian Ramsay Deputy Leader.

In May 2012, Caroline Lucas announced that she would not seek re-election, hoping that instead other talented individuals could rise to the top of the party.

Green MEPs Caroline Lucas in the South East and Jean Lambert in London were re-elected.

Bloomington has been home to a large number of musicians and " scholars " over the years, including Strawberry McCloud, Lotus Dickey, Miles Krassen, Anthony Seeger, Bob Lucas, Caroline Peyton, Mark Bingham, Willy Schwartz, Jessica Radcliffe, Hawk Hubbard, Linda Higginbotham, Brad Leftwich, Ruthie Allen, Grey Larsen, Cindy Kallet, Bruce Anderson, Pete Sutherland, Malcolm Daglish, Sam Bartlett, Jamie Gans, Ken Perlman, and numerous backporch pickers who support the active contra dance, Irish, and bluegrass music scenes.

The same newspaper also quoted Caroline Lucas MP, leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, as saying it was an " unforgivable act of environmental vandalism ".

" and " Brighton Pavilion MP Caroline Lucas said the “ war on drugs has failed ”.

In the first years of the twenty-first century the paper has carried contributions from Uri Avnery, John Pilger, Green activist Derek Wall, ex-Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, Labour MPs Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell, Green MP Caroline Lucas, Respect MP George Galloway, former MP Alan Simpson, the cartoonist Martin Rowson, and many trade union general secretaries.

* Caroline Lucas MP, StWC Vice-President, Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales and Member of Parliament for Brighton Pavilion

* Caroline Lucas, MP and leader of the Green Party of England and Wales

Past LBC presenters include: Adrian Allen ; Carol Allen ; Dominic Allen ; Mike Allen ; Toby Anstis ; Dickie Arbiter ; Tre Azam ; Phillip Bacon ; Bill Bailey ; David Bassett ; * Jeni Barnett ; Simon Bates ; Jeremy Beadle ; Alison Bell ; Bill Bingham ; Therese Birch ; Frank Bough ; Tommy Boyd ; Gyles Brandreth ; Bill Buckley ; Paul Callan ; Douglas Cameron ; Mike Carlton ; Mike Carson ; Clare Catford ; Marcus Churchill ; Nick Conrad ; Andy Crane ; Jamie Crick ; Jono Coleman ; Steve Crozier ; Tim Crook ; Gino D ' Acampo ; Dan Damon ; Peter Deeley ; Anne Diamond ; Mike Dickin ; Richard Dallyn ; Jenny Eclair ; Richard Fairbrass ; Caroline Feraday ; John_Forrest_ ( Producer-Director ); Mariella Frostrup ; George Gale ; Krishnan Guru-Murthy ; Boy George ; Charlie Gibson ; Charles Golding ; Angie Greaves ; Eric Hall ; Bob Harris ; Brian Hayes ; Chris Hawkins ; Phillip Hodson ; Bob Holness ; Eamonn Holmes ; Jon Holmes ; Fred Housego ; Rufus Hound ; Howard Hughes ; Sue Jameson ; Bob Johnson ; Bryn Jones ; Steve Jones ; Barry Jordan ; Charlie Jordan ; Lesley Judd ; Henry Kelly ; Allan King ; Gary King ; Jenny Lacey ; Iain Lee ; Richard Littlejohn ; Wendy Lloyd ; Sir Nicholas Lloyd ; Adrian Love ; Dave Luddy ; Kelvin MacKenzie ; Richard Mackney ; Mike Mendoza ; Daisy McAndrew ; Rod Lucas ; Carol McGiffin ; Monty Modlin ; Nathan Morley ; Douglas Moffatt ; Bel Mooney ; Jane Moore ; Elliot Moss ; Pete Murray ; Paddy O ' Connell ; Rod Lucas ; Tom Parker-Bowles ; Michael Parkinson ; Frank Partridge ; John Perkins ; David Prever ; Martin Popplewell ; Gill Pyrah ; Anna Raeburn ; Angela Rippon ; Rowland Rivron ; Richard Robbins ; Paul Ross ; Kenny Sansom ; Adrian Scott ; Valerie Singleton ; Penny Smith ; Jon Snow ; Julia Somerville ; Laurence Spicer ; Dr Pam Spurr ; Janet Street-Porter ; Peter Stringfellow ; Carol Thatcher ; Sandi Toksvig ; Petroc Trelawny ; Michael Van Straten ; Robbie Vincent ; Becky Walsh ; Sandy Warr ; Brian Widlake ; James Williams, Matthew Wright, and Martin Young ;.

* Caroline Lucas ( Greens-EFA )

Caroline Patricia Lucas ( born 9 December 1960 ) is a British Green Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Brighton Pavilion since 2010.

Caroline Lucas speaking about the Green New Deal in Oxford, in 2009

Caroline Lucas speaking as the first Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales at its autumn conference in 2008.

Caroline Lucas keynote speech at the autumn conference of the Green Party of England and Wales with Councillor Rupert Read looking on, Hove, 2006-09-23

* Liam Fox ( Author ), Caroline Lucas ( Author ), Raymond Lygo ( Author ), Hugh Beach ( Author ), Nick Grief ( Author ), Steven Haines ( Author ), Clare Short ( Author ), Tim Hare ( Author ), Ken Booth ( Editor ), Frank Barnaby ( Editor ), The Future of Britain's Nuclear Weapons, 2006 ISBN 978-0-9511361-9-5

* Caroline Lucas MP official constituency website

At age sixteen and speaking virtually no English, Augusta arrived in Great Britain in order to marry 28-year old Frederick, Prince of Wales, eldest son of King George II and Queen Caroline.

Jim, Sharon, and Caroline each had small parts as musicians, while Andrea had a speaking part as Sharon Rabbitte.

* 1935 – Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.

He was the eldest son of Maximilian, Prince of Saxony — younger son of the Elector Frederick Christian of Saxony — by his first wife, Caroline of Bourbon, Princess of Parma.

Christmas Island is in the world's farthest forward time zone, UTC + 14, and Christmas Island is one of the first inhabited places on Earth to experience the New Year each year ( see also Caroline Atoll, Kiribati ).

* March 29 – Radio Caroline becomes England's first pirate radio station, from a ship anchored just outside UK territorial waters.

* June 22 – French settlers abandon Charlesfort, the first French attempt at colonizing the New World, and establish Fort Caroline in Florida.

* August 1 – Caroline Herschel discovers a comet ( the first discovered by a woman ).

The Preston area near Poplar Neck in Caroline County contained a substantial Quaker community, and was probably an important first stop during Tubman's escape.

The Palais Garnier staged the work for the first time the following 16 September with van Dyck as Lohengrin, Rose Caron as Elsa, Caroline Fiérens-Peters as Ortrude, Maurice Renaud as Telramund, and Charles Douaillier as Heinrich.

Five OSS men participated in the very first UDT submarine operation with the USS Burrfish in the Caroline Islands in August 1944.

Princess Grace gave birth to the couple's first child, Princess Caroline, nine months and four days after the wedding.

At first Caroline Matilda ( Princess Caroline Matilda ) disliked Struensee, but she was unhappy in her marriage, neglected and spurned by the king, and affected by his illness.

By May of the following year, Caroline was pregnant, and her first child Prince Frederick was born on 20 January 1707.

Caroline was the first woman to receive the title at the same time as her husband received his.

On 20 April 1564, it became the port of departure for the French expedition of René Goulaine de Laudonnière to the New World where he created the first French colony at Fort Caroline near present-day Jacksonville, Florida.

In 1564, René Goulaine de Laudonnière established the first European settlement, Fort Caroline, on the St. Johns near the main village of the Saturiwa.

The first annual Miss Fag Hag Pageant took place in New York City on May 17, 2009 at Comix comedy club with judges Caroline Rhea, Michael Musto, Hedda Lettuce and Katina Corrao.

A milestone in vampire literature was Elizabeth Caroline Grey's The Skeleton Count, or The Vampire Mistress ( 1828 ), believed to be the first vampire story published by a woman.

In 2010 she donated £ 1, 000 to Caroline Lucas's campaign to become the first Green MP during the 2010 General Election campaign.

In 1847, after being a member of the first graduating class of Virginia Military Institute ( VMI ), William " Little Billy " Mahone ( 1826 – 1895 ) of Southampton County began teaching at Rappahannock Academy in Caroline County.