Animal Protection Party
Encyclopedia
The Animal Protection Party (APP) was founded in England in 2008 to represent an animal rights
perspective.
Animal rights
Animal rights, also known as animal liberation, is the idea that the most basic interests of non-human animals should be afforded the same consideration as the similar interests of human beings...
perspective.
2010 general election
The APP stood in four constituencies in the May 2010 British general election, chosen because the sitting MP was viewed by the APP as representing the interests of people or industries that use animals.- Sarah Coats stood in Meon ValleyMeon Valley (UK Parliament constituency)Meon Valley is a new county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, created for the 2010 general election...
, a new constitency where Wickham Labs is based. Coats received 255 votes or 0.3 percent; the seat was taken by George HollingberyGeorge HollingberyGeorge Michael Edward Hollingbery is a British Conservative Party politician who was elected at the 2010 general election as the Member of Parliament for Meon Valley, a new Hampshire constituency created as a result of changes made by the Boundary Commission for England.Hollingbery was educated...
for the Conservatives. - Carrie Holliman stood in HuntingdonHuntingdon (UK Parliament constituency)Huntingdon is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election....
, where Huntingdon Life SciencesHuntingdon Life SciencesHuntingdon Life Sciences is a contract animal-testing company founded in 1952 in England, with facilities in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire; Eye, Suffolk; New Jersey in the U.S., and Japan...
is based, against Conservative MP Jonathan DjanoglyJonathan DjanoglyJonathan Simon Djanogly is a British politician, former practicing solicitor and Conservative Member of Parliament for Huntingdon...
. She received 181 votes or 0.3 percent. Djanogly held the seat. - Jim Kapetanos stood in VauxhallVauxhall (UK Parliament constituency)-Elections in the 1980s:-Elections in the 1970s:-Elections in the 1960s:-Notes and references:...
against Labour MP Kate HoeyKate HoeyCatharine Letitia Hoey is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Vauxhall since 1989. She served in the Blair Government as Minister for Sport from 1999 to 2001.-Background:...
, chairperson of the Countryside AllianceCountryside AllianceThe Countryside Alliance is a British organisation promoting issues relating to the countryside such as country sports, including hunting, shooting and angling...
, which promotes hunting. He received 96 votes or 0.2 percent. Hoey held the seat. - Keith MannKeith MannKeith Mann is a British animal rights campaigner and writer, alleged by police in 2005 to be at the top of the Animal Liberation Front pyramid. He is the author of From Dusk 'til Dawn: An Insider's View of the Growth of the Animal Liberation Movement...
stood in Oxford West and Abingdon against Liberal Democrat MP Evan HarrisEvan HarrisEvan Leslie Harris is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Oxford West and Abingdon from 1997 to 2010, losing his seat in the 2010 general election by 176 votes to Conservative Nicola Blackwood....
; the area has been the focus of protests against the building of Oxford University's Biomedical Sciences Building. Mann received 143 votes or 0.3 percent; Harris lost the seat to Nicola BlackwoodNicola BlackwoodNicola Claire Blackwood is a Conservative Party politician. She was elected as Member of Parliament for Oxford West and Abingdon in the 2010 election.-Political career:...
for the Conservative Party.
See also
- Animals CountAnimals CountAnimals Count is a minor political party in the United Kingdom campaigning on animal rights, founded in December 2006 by Dutch national Jasmijn de Boo of Kennington, London and Shaun Rutherford of Milford Haven, Wales...
- Animal Rights PartyAnimal Rights PartyThe Animal Rights Party is an animal welfare political party in Austria. It is led by Ralph Chaloupek. It contested the Lower Austrian state election . It also contested the 2008 national election, but only in Vienna.-External links:*...
- List of animal advocacy parties
- Party for the AnimalsParty for the AnimalsThe Party for the Animals is a political party in the Netherlands.Among its main goals are animal rights and animal welfare, though it claims not to be a single-issue party...