The first Scottish Greens co-leadership election occurred during the summer of 2019, following a newly adopted constitution by the party.

Her work experience comes from renewable energy engineering, and she had been second on the party's list for the 2019 European Parliament election.

[5] Green activist Graham Kerr from North Lanarkshire was the second person to put their name forward.

He had been a candidate in the 2017 Scottish Green Party co-convener election, and said that he decided to run again because of the encouragement that he had got.

[4] The former co-convener Maggie Chapman was a front runner in the election, with her campaign based on her former profile in being head of the party.