Green Party of the United States | |
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Co-chairs | |
Green National Committee | |
Founders | Howie Hawkins John Rensenbrink |
Split from | Greens/Green Party USA |
Headquarters | Takoma Park, Maryland |
Membership (2024) | 244,006[1] |
Ideology | Green politics Progressivism[2] Eco-socialism[3][4] |
Political position | Left-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 | 143 / 519,682 [6][7] |
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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,[update] 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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