The Green Party of the United States, also known as GPUS, is one of the two minor contemporary political parties in the United States with a sustained national presence, the other being the Libertarian Party. The Green Party has affiliated state parties in most states. However, not all state Green Parties are affiliated with GPUS, with those parties included separately in the following list.
Organizations of GPUS +Overview of American Green PartiesState/Territorial PartyChairLocal OfficeholdersUpper House SeatsLower House SeatsWebsiteGreen National CommitteeCollective Leadership>110 TotalGNC siteAlabama Green Party0Alaska (unaccredited)n/aArizona Green Party0AZ siteGreen Party of Arkansas1AR siteGreen Party of CaliforniaMimi Newton41CA siteGreen Party of ColoradoAndrea Mérida Cuéllar& Dave Bell1CO siteConnecticut Green Party11CT siteGreen Party of Delaware0DE siteGreen Party of FloridaRandy Toler& Laura Potts0FL siteGeorgia (unaccredited)n/aUnified Green Party Of GeorgiaGreen Party of HawaiiSusan Robertsemery& Budd Dickinson0HI siteIdaho Green Party(inactive)n/aID siteIllinois Green PartySheldon Shafer& A. J. Reed9IL siteIndiana Green PartyPluto Brand0Iowa Green PartyErin Young0IA siteKansas Green PartyTeresa Wilke& Kent Rowe0KS siteKentucky Green Party (inactive)n/aGreen Party of LouisianaChris Stella1siteMaine Green Independent PartyCollective Leadership4ME siteMaryland Green PartyOlivia Romano2MD siteGreen-Rainbow Party of MassachusettsCollective Leadership7MA siteGreen Party of MichiganAmanda Slepr& Tom Mair4MI siteGreen Party of MinnesotaTrahern Crews3Green Party of Mississippi0MS siteMissouri Green PartyDon Fitz1MO siteGreen Party of Montana0MT siteNebraska Green Party0Nebraska LegislatureNE siteGreen Party of Nevada0NV siteNew Hampshire (unaccredited)n/aGreen Party of New JerseyCollective Leadership1NJ siteGreen Party of New Mexico0NM siteGreen Party of New YorkGloria Mattera& Peter LaVenia4NY siteNorth Carolina Green PartyTommie James& Tony Ndege0NC siteNorth Dakota (unaccredited)n/aGreen Party of OhioNathaniel Lane& Philena Farley1OH siteGreen Party of Oklahoma0OK sitePacific Green Party of OregonCollective Leadership5OR siteGreen Party of PennsylvaniaTim Runkle& Colleen Schmotzer14PA siteRhode Island (unaccredited)n/aSouth Carolina Green PartyCollective Leadership2SC siteSouth Dakota Green PartyShaun Little Horn0SD siteGreen Party of Tennessee0TN siteGreen Party of TexasWesson Gaige& Laura Palmer1TX siteGreen Party of UtahJessica Bronson& Dee Taylor2UT siteVermont Green Party (inactive)n/aGreen Party of VirginiaRyan Wesdock& Tina Rockett2VA siteGreen Party of Washington StateCollective Leadership0WA siteWest Virginia Mountain PartyDenise Binion2WV siteWisconsin Green PartyJo' Nathan Kingfisher& Dave Schwab2WI siteWyoming Green Party (inactive)n/a[http:// WY site]D.C. Statehood Green PartyDarryl Moch1Council of the District of ColumbiaDC siteGreen Party of the Virgin Islands(inactive)n/aLegislature of the Virgin IslandsVI site
Standalone state parties Alaska
The Green Party of Alaska is a political party in the U.S. state of Alaska. It was the Alaska affiliate of the national state Green Party, from its creation until 2021, but the state party broke the party rules when it refused to recognize the nominated presidential candidate, Howie Hawkins in the 2020 presidential election. Alaska was the first state to gain Green Party ballot access, in 1990, when Jim Sykes ran for governor. Sykes had previously filed a ballot access lawsuit, citing an earlier case, Vogler v. Miller.
Like the Alaska Libertarian Party, the Green Party organizes local affiliate groups by regions of the state rather than election districts. It is known for calling these groups bioregions. The organized bioregions of the GPAK include the Southcentral Bioregion (Anchorage area) and the Tanana-Yukon Bioregion (the Interior, around the Tanana and Yukon River areas).
Georgia
The Georgia Green Party is a state-level political party in Georgia. Their candidate for president in 2016 was Dr. Jill Stein. Stein was denied access to the ballot. The party sued and won at the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. The state chapter was disaffiliated by the Green Party of the United States on June 26, 2021, due to the state chapter drafting and passing a platform amendment against the rights of transgender people, counter to the GPUS platform.
Rhode Island OSGP The Ocean State Green Party (OSGP) is a Green party in the United States. The party was founded in summer 2020, originally as a small group of supporters of the Hawkins-Walker 2020 campaign in Rhode Island. After the older Green Party of Rhode Island refused to support the presidential campaign, these supporters opted to reject this decision and collect signatures to gain a ballot line for the Green Party ticket. They then proceeded to file a complaint with the Accreditation Committee of the Green Party of the United States.
GPRI
The Green Party of Rhode Island (GPRI) is one of the oldest active Green parties in the United States. The party was founded on March 6, 1992, at a meeting of 40 activists from Rhode Island. In November 1996, GPRI was one of 12 founding parties in the Association of State Green Parties, renamed the Green Party of the United States in 2001. Several Rhode Island party leaders have served as officers of the national Green Party. The party's candidates run for municipal councils in several cities and towns, such as running for Mayor of Providence, the State Senate and the State House of Representatives, U.S. Congress, and for Lieutenant governor. The Green Party of Rhode Island was involved in nationwide Green politics, until 2020 when the state party leadership took the rogue position to refuse to place the Green nominee for president, Howie Hawkins, on the ballot. Rather than face deaccreditation, the state party ended its affiliation with GPUS.
Virginia
The Independent Greens of Virginia, (also known as the Indy Greens), was the state affiliate of the Independence Party of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It became a state party around 2003 when a faction of the Arlington local chapter of the Green Party of Virginia (GPVA) split from the main party. As of 2011, it bills itself as a "fiscally conservative, socially responsible green party", with an emphasis on rail transportation and "more candidates". In support of wider ballot participation, it endorses many independent candidates who are not affiliated with the party.
See also List of state parties of the Democratic Party (United States) List of state parties of the Libertarian Party (United States) List of state parties of the Republican Party (United States)
References
External links Green Party US list of State Parties