2016 Green Party presidential primaries

2016 Green Party presidential primaries

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402 delegates to the Green National Convention
202 delegates votes needed to win
 
Candidate Jill Stein Others / Uncommitted William Kreml
Home state Massachusetts South Carolina
Delegate count 269½ 112¼ 20¼
Contests won 36 0 1
Popular vote 13,240 3,957 654
Percentage 74.2% 22.1% 3.7%

First place (popular vote or delegate count)
     Jill Stein      William Kreml

Previous Green nominee

Jill Stein

Green nominee

Jill Stein

The 2016 Green Party presidential primaries were a series of primaries, caucuses and state conventions in which voters elected delegates to represent a candidate for the Green Party's nominee for President of the United States at the 2016 Green National Convention. The primaries, held in numerous states on various dates from January to July 2016, featured elections publicly funded and held as an alternative ballot, concurrent with the Democratic and Republican primaries, and elections privately funded by the Green Party, held non-concurrently with the major party primaries. Over 400 delegates to the Green National Convention were elected in these primaries, with a candidate needing a simple majority of these delegates to become the party's nominee for president.[1][2]

A total of six candidates stood in the primaries, including the preceding Green nominee for president in the 2012 presidential election, Jill Stein, who sought the nomination for a second time. Other candidates included Sedinam Moyowasifza-Curry, who had previously worked as a campaign manager for the presidential campaign of the Green Party's 2008 nominee, Cynthia McKinney, in addition to singer-songwriter and Earth First! activist Darryl Cherney, perennial candidate Kent Mesplay, University of South Carolina professor William Kreml, and youth rights activist Elijah Manley.

Formal recognition is a requirement to be the Green Party's nominee.[3] On May 4, the Green Party of the United States formally recognized William Kreml and Jill Stein as candidates for its presidential nomination. On June 15, the Stein campaign announced that it had received 203 delegates, enough to win the nomination on the first ballot at the National Convention. Jill Stein formally won the nomination on August 6, during the 2016 Green National Convention.[4]

As the Green Party presidential candidate in the 2016 United States presidential election Stein received 1,457,222 votes or 1.06% of the popular vote.[5] Stein received zero electoral college votes.

  1. ^ "Green Party Presidential Campaign Calendar 2015–2016". Green Party of the United States. February 11, 2016. Retrieved February 20, 2016.
  2. ^ "Rules of the Presidential Nominating Convention of the Green Party of the United States". Green Party of the United States. February 11, 2016. Retrieved February 20, 2016.
  3. ^ "Green Party formally recognizes two presidential candidates". Green Party Watch. Archived from the original on April 20, 2018. Retrieved May 5, 2016.
  4. ^ "Dr. Jill Stein secures Green Presidential nomination, rises to 5% in national poll". Jill 2016. Archived from the original on August 2, 2016. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
  5. ^ Leip, David. "2016 Presidential Election Results". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved February 27, 2017.