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Despite declining voter support and the failure to gain more seats in the last election, Green leader Elizabeth May maintains a strong hold on her party’s top job.

On Oct. 19, the Greens saw their share of the popular vote fall to 3.4 per cent, down from 3.9 per cent in 2011 and a high of 6.8 per cent in 2008. They also lost one of two MPs, while a batch of so-called star candidates failed to win a single seat.

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Under the party constitution, May, 61, must face an automatic leadership review within six months of an election, which could trigger a leadership race should she secure less than 60-per-cent support from party members.

But with May still the party’s lone representative in Parliament, no one appears positioned to challenge her and few are openly questioning the way she has run the three general election campaigns since she took over as leader in 2006.

Even Bruce Hyer, the former New Democrat who crossed the floor to join the Green Party, only to lose his seat on Oct. 19, supports May continuing in the job.