Zoë Garbett
British politician
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Zoë Garbett is a British politician who has served as a member of the London Assembly for the Green Party since May 2024.
Zoë Garbett | |
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Garbett in 2023 | |
| Member of the London Assembly for Londonwide | |
| Assumed office 7 May 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Siân Berry |
| Mayor of Hackney | |
| Assuming office 11 May 2026 | |
| Succeeding | Caroline Woodley |
| Hackney Borough Councillor for Dalston ward | |
| Assumed office 5 May 2022 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | |
| Party | Green Party of England and Wales |
| Website | zoe4london |
She was the Green candidate for mayor of London in the 2024 mayoral election. She was fourth on the Green Party's list for the London Assembly and was not elected; however, Siân Berry resigned to focus on her bid to get elected as an MP for Brighton Pavilion. This allowed Garbett to take her place.[2]
Garbett currently serves as Leader of the Green Party on Hackney London Borough Council, as well as the councillor for Dalston ward since May 2022. She ran for Mayor of Hackney in the 2023 by-election. [3]
Garbett was elected mayor of Hackney in the 2026 Hackney mayoral election,[4] making her the first Green Party mayor in the party's history.
Early life
Garbett grew up in Taunton, Somerset.[5] She attended Richard Huish College.[6]
Political career
In the 2022 UK local elections, Zoë Garbett contested both a seat in Hackney London Borough Council and for the directly-elected Mayor of Hackney.
In the 2022 Hackney London Borough Council election, Garbett was first elected as a councillor for Dalston ward, receiving 1,446 votes or 62.8% of the vote.[7] She was the first green councillor to be elected to the position.
In the 2023 Hackney mayoral election, she came in second place with 17% of the vote, behind the Labour Party candidate, Philip Glanville.[8]
Following Hackney mayor Philip Glanville's suspension from the Labour Party over a photograph taken with a convicted paedophile and former councillor,[9] Garbett put forward a motion of no-confidence against Glanville, but it did not reach a debate of the full council.[10] Mayor Glanville resigned two weeks later, vacating the position on 22 September 2023 and triggering a mayoral by-election.[11]
Shortly after she was announced as the Green Party candidate in the 2023 Hackney mayoral election.[12][13] Garbett came second place with 24.5% of the vote, behind the Labour Party candidate.[14]
On 10 February 2023, she was announced as the Green Party candidate for the 2024 London mayoral election.[15] Garbett launched her London mayoral campaign manifesto on 8 April 2024, committing to abolishing fare zones to implementing a flat-fee for travel on the London Underground, Overground and Docklands Light Railway.[16][17] Garbett also campaigned on implementing rent controls, and establish a commission for reducing rents.[18][19] Garbett came fourth, with 145,114 votes, narrowly behind the Liberal Democrat candidate with 145,184 votes.[20]
In September 2024, Zoë Garbett was involved in the founding of the left-wing organisation Greens Organise.[21][22]
Zoë Garbett was elected mayor of Hackney in the May 2026 mayoral election.[23]
