Human rights lawyer Annamie Paul has been elected the new leader of Canada's Green Party, replacing Elizabeth May in the post.
Paul won on the eighth ballot with 12,090 votes on Saturday, prevailing against her rival Dimitri Lascaris, a self-described "eco-socialist", who claimed 10,081 votes, CBC News reported.
The last leadership election took place more than a decade ago - in 2006, and since then, May had held that post.
Paul has become the first black person to permanently run a federal party in Canada.