2010, the Liberal Democrats also selected a female candidate, Bernadette Millam. Labour had selected Nancy Platts, a local campaigner and former union worker, as their candidate in June 2007. This meant that, distinctively, all of the four leading parties in the constituency had female candidates. In 2010, Labour's share of the vote fell by 6.5%, and Lucas, by then leading the Green Party, won the seat. In contrast to national results, the Conservative and Liberal Democrat share of the vote fell. Lucas retained the seat for the Green Party at the 2015 general election with an increased majority. Purna Sen, who held senior roles at the Commonwealth, LSE and Amnesty International, was selected to contest the seat for Labour. Clarence Mitchell, a former BBC News reporter and spokesman for the family of Madeleine McCann, was selected as the Conservative Party candidate. For the 2017 general election, and the 2019 general election, the local Liberal Democrat party chose to not field a candidate in the seat, endorsing Lucas instead due to their shared pro-EU stance. Lucas retained Brighton Pavilion for the Green Party being returned with the biggest numerical majority for any candidate in the seat since 1959. In the 2019 election, the seat had the largest winning margin, and the highest winning vote share, of any seat not held by the Conservatives or Labour. Members of Parliament Election results Elections in the 2010s Elections in the 2000s Elections in the 1990s Elections in the 1980s Elections in the 1970s Elections in the 1960s Elections in the 1950s See also List of parliamentary constituencies in East Sussex Opinion polling for the next United Kingdom general election in individual constituencies Notes References Sources Election result, 2005 (BBC) Election results, 1997 – 2001 (BBC) Election results, 1997 – 2001 (Election Demon) Election results, 1983 – 1992 (Election Demon) Election results, 1992 – 2005 (Guardian) Election results, 1951 – 2001 (Keele University) By-election result, 1969 (Geocities) F. W. S. Craig. British Parliamentary Election Results 1950–1973. () External links nomis Constituency Profile for Brighton, Pavilion — presenting data from the ONS annual population survey and other official statistics. Politics of Brighton and Hove Parliamentary constituencies in South East England Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1950