The Guildford Greenbelt Group is a small political party within the

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which seeks to preserve the

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surrounding

Guildford Guildford () is a town in west Surrey, England, around south-west of central London. As of the 2011 census, the town has a population of about 77,000 and is the seat of the wider Borough of Guildford, which had around inhabitants in . The nam ...

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. The group was founded in 2013 and the party was registered with the

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in 2014.

Electoral history

Its chair, Susan Parker, stood in

in the 2015 general election coming in 6th place with 538 votes (1.0%) Standing in some wards in the

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in the 2015 local elections, the party gained its first three councillors, and secured 20,614 votes across the borough. At the 2019 local elections the party increased its Borough Council representation to four seats. In the 2023 local elections, the GGG lost one of their seats, bringing their total down to 3 for the 2023–2027 council term.

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* * Guildford Political parties established in 2014 Locally based political parties in England 2014 establishments in England Green belts in the United Kingdom {{UK-party-stub Single-issue political parties