2020 Green National Convention

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2020 Green National Convention
2020 presidential election
Green Party of the United States New Logo.png
Hawkins Oval.png Angela Walker Oval.png
Nominees
Hawkins and Walker
Convention
Date(s)July 912, 2020
VenueOnline
Candidates
Presidential nominee Howie Hawkins of New York
Vice-presidential nominee Angela Walker of South Carolina
Voting
Total delegates358 [1]
Votes needed for nomination179
Simple majority
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The 2020 Green National Convention (GNC) or presidential nominating convention was an event in which delegates of the Green Party of the United States (GPUS) chose its nominees for president and vice president in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The convention was originally scheduled to be held July 9–12, 2020, at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, but it was decided to instead hold the convention online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Site selection

On August 18, 2019, the Green National Committee selected Detroit, Michigan, as the site for the 2020 convention, to take place from July 9 to 12 at Wayne State University. Greenville, South Carolina, and Spartanburg, South Carolina, were also considered to host the convention. [2] On April 24, 2020, it was instead announced that plans to have a physical convention had been cancelled and that it would instead be held online, as Wayne State University had informed the Green Party that it would be not able to accommodate them due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [3]

Delegate allocation

GPUS-affiliated parties may elect delegates to the presidential nominating convention, typically conducted through a state party convention, caucus or primary. GPUS identity caucuses also elect delegates to the convention. Based on active state parties and caucuses, there can be up to 350 delegates in attendance, apportioned mostly proportionally (a minimum apportionment and a cap on a party's apportionment of 21% of the total), each committed to vote in reflection of their state party membership's preference. Many states send delegates representing multiple candidates, rejecting the feature of artificial disproportionality resulting from, in examples, the general ticket or district elections, in deference to proportionality. [4]

The delegates of the presidential nominating convention are different from the elected delegates of the Green National Committee, the party's routine decision-making body.

Speakers

The following people were announced as speakers at the convention: [5]

Presidential delegate vote

At the convention, vote totals for the options were given, including an incorrect sum for the lumped-together None of the above and Uncommitted votes. Ballot Access News reported, as in previous years, the delegation-by-delegation votes, lumping together No nominee, None of the above and Uncommitted votes and omitting candidates not qualified by the GNC (Jesse Ventura, Kent Mesplay, Susan Lochoki and Bernie Sanders), except for in totals, and making a mistake on the line for the GP of Texas, though the totals are correct.

2020 Green National Convention presidential vote [6] [7]
CandidateDelegatesPercentageNote
Howie Hawkins 21058.82%
Dario Hunter 10228.57%
Sedinam Moyowasifza-Curry11.53.22%
Dennis Lambert8.52.38%
Jesse Ventura 71.96% [lower-alpha 1]
Uncommitted61.68% [lower-alpha 2]
David Rolde4.51.26%
No nominee30.84% [lower-alpha 3]
Kent Mesplay 20.56% [lower-alpha 4]
Susan Lochoki10.28% [lower-alpha 4]
None of the above10.28% [lower-alpha 5]
Bernie Sanders 0.50.14% [lower-alpha 6]
Totals357100% [lower-alpha 7]

2020 Green National Convention Delegate Map.svg

  Howie Hawkins
  Dario Hunter
  Sedinam Moyowasifza-Curry
  No preference
  No delegates

Vice-presidential delegate vote

Angela Walker was approved by consensus by the 221 delegates, securing the nomination as vice-presidential candidate. [6]

See also

Notes

  1. 2 from the Connecticut GP, 1 from the Maine Green Independent Party and 4 from the GP of Michigan
  2. 1 from the Arizona GP, 1 from the GP of Colorado, 1 from the Iowa GP, 2 from the Missouri GP and 1 from the GP of Utah
  3. 2 from the Maine Green Independent Party and 1 from the Nebraska GP
  4. 1 2 from the GP of Texas
  5. from the GP of Florida
  6. from the GP of Michigan
  7. The Alabama GP submitted only 3/4 of their votes.

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