For the Scottish Greens, local authority elections are the most important of all. Following on from successes in 2016’s Holyrood elections, the party was aiming to make significant gains in the 2017 Scottish local authority election.
I was tasked with producing election materials for the Falkirk branch of the Scottish Greens to use throughout the 2017 election. This took the shape of:
- An initial 4-page flyer delivered to constituents in the Carse, Kinnaird and Tryst ward early in the year
- A ‘we missed you’ card to put through letterboxes while canvassing
- A followup flyer delivered a month before the date of the election
- Eve of poll cards for the Carse, Kinnaird & Tryst and Bo’ness & Blackness wards, to be delivered by activists in the days before the election
- A 10-page manifesto for Falkirk Council published on the Falkirk branch website
- A ‘we missed you’ card to put through letterboxes while canvassing
- A followup flyer delivered a month before the date of the election
- Eve of poll cards for the Carse, Kinnaird & Tryst and Bo’ness & Blackness wards, to be delivered by activists in the days before the election
- A 10-page manifesto for Falkirk Council published on the Falkirk branch website
After sharing the templates for the Falkirk leaflets with other branches, I was also asked to produce additional leaflets for the Argyll & Bute branch to promote their top three candidates.
