Green Party of the United States

Green Party of the United States
Co-chairs
  • Craig Cayetano (NJ)
  • Darryl Moch (DC)
  • Alfred Molison (TX)
  • Tony Ndege (NC)
  • Margaret Elisabeth (WA)
  • Tamar Yager (VA)
  • Joseph Naham (NY)
Green National Committee
FoundersHowie Hawkins
John Rensenbrink
Split fromGreens/Green Party USA
HeadquartersTakoma Park, Maryland
Membership (2024)Increase 244,006[1]
IdeologyGreen politics
Progressivism[2]
Eco-socialism[3][4]
Political positionLeft-wing[5]
Colors  Green
Seats in the Senate
0 / 100
Seats in the House of Representatives
0 / 435
State governorships
0 / 50
Seats in state upper chambers
0 / 1,972
Seats in state lower chambers
0 / 5,411
Territorial governorships
0 / 5
Seats in territorial upper chambers
0 / 97
Seats in territorial lower chambers
0 / 91
Other elected officials
157 / 519,682
[6][7]
Election symbol
Website
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The Green Party of the United States (GPUS) is a federation of Green state political parties in the United States.[8] The party promotes green politics, specifically environmentalism; nonviolence; social justice; participatory democracy; grassroots democracy; anti-war; anti-racism. As of 2023, it is the fourth-largest political party in the United States by voter registration, behind the Libertarian Party.[9]

The direct predecessor of the GPUS was the Association of State Green Parties (ASGP). In the late 1990s, the ASGP, which formed in 1996,[10] had increasingly distanced itself from the Greens/Green Party USA (G/GPUSA),[11] America's then-primary green organization which had formed in 1991 out of the Green Committees of Correspondence, a collection of local green groups active since 1984.[12] In 2001, the GPUS was officially founded as the ASGP split from the G/GPUSA. After its founding, the GPUS soon became the primary national green organization in the country, surpassing the G/GPUSA. John Rensenbrink and Howie Hawkins were co-founders of the Green Party.[13]

The Greens (as ASGP) first gained widespread public attention during the 2000 presidential election, when the ticket composed of Ralph Nader and Winona LaDuke won 2.7% of the popular vote, raising questions as to whether they spoiled the election in favor of George W. Bush.[14][15][16][17] Nader has dismissed the notion that he and other Green candidates are spoilers.[18]

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  2. ^ Tait, Robert (November 22, 2023). "Jill Stein formally launches 2024 White House bid as Green party candidate". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved June 18, 2024.
  3. ^ Atkin, Emily (February 22, 2019). "The Democrats Stole the Green Party's Best Idea". The New Republic. Retrieved August 30, 2024.
  4. ^ Hawkins, Howie (February 16, 2024). "Cornel West, Jill Stein, and the Green Party". NewPolitics. Retrieved August 30, 2024.
  5. ^ Resnikoff, Ned (June 23, 2015). "Green Party's Jill Stein Running for President". Al Jazeera. Archived from the original on June 26, 2015. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Green Officeholders was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ "How many politicians are there in the USA? (Infographic)". PoliEngine. Retrieved June 2, 2024.
  8. ^ "Green Party". ballotpedia.org. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
  9. ^ Winger, Richard (March 28, 2021). "March 2021 Ballot Access News Print Edition". Ballot Access News. Retrieved April 1, 2021.
  10. ^ "AOR 2011–13: Advisory Opinion Request (AOR) Seeking Recognition of the Coordinating Committee of the Green Party of the United States as the National Committee of the Green Party" (PDF). Federal Election Commission. August 9, 2001. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
  11. ^ "Coordinating Committee for the Greens/Green Party USA National Committee Governing Body of the "Green Party", Greens/Green Party USA" (PDF). Federal Election Commission. September 7, 2001. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
  12. ^ "Advisory Opinion 2001–13" (PDF). Federal Election Commission. November 8, 2001. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
  13. ^ "Green Party convention-goers are ready to take on President Obama, Mitt Romney". The Washington Post. July 15, 2012. Retrieved May 26, 2022.
  14. ^ Dao, James (November 9, 2000). "The 2000 Elections: The Green Party; Angry Democrats, Fearing Nader Cost Them Presidential Race, Threaten to Retaliate". The New York Times. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
  15. ^ Roberts, Joel (July 27, 2004). "Nader to crash Dems' party?". CBS News.
  16. ^ Burden, Barry C. (2003). "Chapter 11: Minor Parties in the 2000 Presidential Election". In Weisberg, Herbert F.; Wilcox, Clyde (eds.). Models of Voting in Presidential Elections: The 2000 U.S. Election. Stanford University Press. pp. 206–227. ISBN 978-0-8047-4856-8.
  17. ^ Herron, Michael C.; Lewis, Jeffrey B. (April 24, 2006). "Did Ralph Nader spoil Al Gore's Presidential bid? A ballot-level study of Green and Reform Party voters in the 2000 Presidential election". Quarterly Journal of Political Science. 2 (3). Now Publishing Inc.: 205–226. doi:10.1561/100.00005039. Pdf.
  18. ^ Nader, Ralph (June 2, 2016). "I was not a 'spoiler' in 2000. Jill Stein doesn't deserve that insulting label, either". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 14, 2019.