Mock Election 2024: RGS Worcester Really Is Green!

On 27 and 28 June 2024, RGS Worcester went to the polls in its own Mock Election 2024. With a 90% total turnout across the School, the pupils fully engaged with the experience. Congratulations go to the Green Party, which won the majority of the seats and, as a result, the RGS Worcester Election!

The election was officially launched on Wednesday 19 June, with hustings assemblies taking place across the School that week. Candidates from the Conservative, Labour, Green, Reform and Liberal Democrat parties, each party with a Lower Sixth leader, had the opportunity to present their ideas to every Year group in turn. The campaign that followed was hard-fought but positive, focusing on policies, not candidates, as the parties canvassed for support at lunch and break times, as well as popping in to see forms at afternoon registration.

On Thursday 27 and Friday 28 June, all of the pupils in School had the opportunity to vote, with turnout at a remarkable 90%. Each Year group was treated as a separate ‘constituency’ with its own candidates, giving the parties five seats in total to target. In the end, Reform UK won two seats, the Liberal Democrat Party were beaten into second place in four of the constituencies, and the Conservatives took second in one. However, it was the Greens who were triumphant with three seats in total, thus winning the Mock Election as a whole.

As Head of History and Politics, I was immensely proud of all of our pupils. The Lower Sixth candidates were amazing, really taking on board the need to run a positive campaign and inspiring the candidates in the younger years to campaign. The whole School was engaged in the Mock Election, and I was impressed by the quality of the questions asked by the pupils when they were trying to decide where to place their vote. Very well done everyone!

Mrs Jane Harrison, Head of History and Politics

The Headmaster adds, “My very grateful thanks to Mrs Harrison and the History & Politics department as well as Year group teams for organising the Mock Election. It was inevitably rather rushed given Rishi Sunak’s surprise announcement and the need to complete our Mock Election before the actual General Election. Thank you to the pupils who stood as candidates for all their hard work and to all of the pupils for taking this event seriously and engaging with the democratic process. We were delighted by the turnout and RGS pupils proved that politics and Election campaigns can be clean and positive, presenting a vision for the future.”