Arizona Green Party

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Arizona Green Party
Chairperson Sam Hales [1]
Zakir Siddiqi [1]
HeadquartersP.O. Box 60173
Phoenix, Arizona 85082
Membership (2024)Decrease2.svg 3,367 [2]
Ideology Green politics
Political position Left-wing
National affiliation Green Party of the United States
Colors  Green
Seats in the U.S. Senate
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Seats in the U.S. House
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Statewide Offices
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Seats in the State Senate
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Seats in the State House
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Other elected officials1 (February 2024) [3]
Website
azgp.org

The Arizona Green Party (AZGP) is the officially recognized affiliate of the Green Party in the state of Arizona. It was founded by Carolyn Campbell alongside others in the 1990s. Sam Hales, whose term expires January 2025, serves as Co-Chairperson of the Arizona Green Party with Zakir Siddiqi. [1]

Contents

History

Ballot access

In 2008, the Arizona Green Party gathered enough signatures to gain ballot access. [4] The party had worked with Arizona's ballot access laws, achieving ballot access for the 2000 election cycle, then losing it again in 2004. On March 6, 2008, the Arizona deadline for ballot access, the Arizona Green Party submitted 29,300 signatures on its petition for party recognition. The legal requirement is 20,449. On April 9, 2008, Arizona Secretary of State Jan Brewer announced that the Arizona Green Party had enough valid signatures to be recognized as an official political party. [5]

Activists of the Arizona Green Party collecting signatures for ballot status. Arizona Greens ballot status signature collectors 20080209.jpg
Activists of the Arizona Green Party collecting signatures for ballot status.

On April 28, 2011, Governor Jan Brewer signed HB 2304, which says that when a new party qualifies, it is entitled to be on the ballot in the next two elections, not just the next election. As a result, the Green Party was automatically on the ballot for 2012 because it had successfully petitioned in 2010. [6] [7]

In 2016, the Arizona Green Party successfully sued the state of Arizona to ensure its presidential nominee, Jill Stein, was placed on the ballot after the party failed to submit a slate of Presidential electors on time. [8] Jill Stein received a total of 34,345 votes in Arizona, leaving her with 1.3% of the total vote. [9]

In December 2023, Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes announced that the Arizona Green Party had enough signatures to be recognized as an official political party and is eligible to appear on statewide and legislative election ballots in 2024 and 2026. [10]

The Green Party of Arizona did not appear on the March State of Arizona 2024 Presidential Preference Election ballot due to not being recognized as an official political party in time. But potential candidates will be placed on the Primary and General Elections in 2024. [10]

Campaigns

Prominent Green candidates in Arizona have included Vance Hansen, who ran for the US Senate in 2000 and received 108,926 votes. Claudia Ellquist ran for Pima County Attorney in 2004 on a platform largely focused on declaring a moratorium on the death penalty. Dave Croteau ran for mayor of Tucson in 2007 on a platform of relocalization and received over 28% of the vote. [11]

2016 primary election results

The Arizona Green Party held its primary on March 22, 2016. Jill Stein won with 79.6% of the vote, and the overall number of voters that took part in the primary saw an increase from 561 in 2012 to 817 in 2016. [12] Only two candidates qualified for the primary: [13]

Arizona Green Party presidential primary, March 22, 2016 [14]
CandidateVotesPercentageNational delegates
Jill Stein 60979.6%5
Kent Mesplay 13918.2%1
Write-in/Blank172.2%-
Total765100.0%6
County results of the Arizona Green presidential primaries, 2016. Jill Stein Kent Mesplay No votes Arizona Green Presidential Primary Election Results by County, 2016.svg
County results of the Arizona Green presidential primaries, 2016.
  Jill Stein
  Kent Mesplay
  No votes

Elections

President

YearNomineeVotes%
1996 Ralph Nader 2,062
0.2 / 100
2000 Ralph Nader 45,645
3.0 / 100
2004 David Cobb (write-in)138
0.0 / 100
2008 Cynthia McKinney 3,406
0.2 / 100
2012 Jill Stein 7,816
0.3 / 100
2016 Jill Stein 34,345
1.3 / 100
2020 Howie Hawkins (write-in)1,557
0.1 / 100
2024 Jill Stein 18,319
0.5 / 100

United States Senate

YearNomineeVotes%
2000 Vance Hansen108,926
7.8 / 100
2010 Jerry Joslyn24,603
1.5 / 100
2016 Gary Swing138,634
5.5 / 100
2018 Angela Green57,442
2.4 / 100

United States House of Representatives

YearDistrictNomineeVotes%
2008 2nd William Crum3,616
1.1 / 100
4th Rebecca DeWitt4,464
3.6 / 100
2010 3rd Leonard Clark3,294
1.6 / 100
4th Rebecca DeWitt2,365
2.6 / 100
6th Richard Grayson3,407
1.4 / 100
2012 6th Mark Salazar5,637
1.9 / 100
2016 1st Ray Parrish16,746
6.0 / 100
6th Mark Salazar93,954
31.43 / 100
7th Neil Westbrooks (write-in)60
0.0 / 100
2018 4th Haryaksha Knauer3,672
1.3 / 100
7th Gary Swing18,706
14.2 / 100

Governor

YearCandidateVotes%
2018 Angel Torres [15] 50,962
2.14 / 100
2022 Liana West (Write-in) [16] 254
0.001 / 100

Arizona State Senate

YearDistrictCandidateVotes%
2000 11th Daniel Patterson [17] 2,972
8.93 / 100
2016 27th Angel Torres [18] 6,420
19 / 100
2018 11th Mohammad Arif [19] 1,076
1.1 / 100

Arizona State House of Representatives

YearDistrictsNomineeVotes%
1992 11th Carolyn Campbell [20] 5,472
11.25 / 100
2000 11th Bill Moeller [21] 5,382
16.1 / 100
2008 12th Celeste Castorena [22] 5,976
3.3 / 100
2010 16th Angel Torres [23] 2,532
5.19 / 100
6th Deborah Odowd [24] 5,405
5.85 / 100
17th Gregor Knauer [25] 862
1.55 / 100
12th Justin Dahl [26] 6,762
6.16 / 100
27th Kent Solberg [27] 5,778
8.13 / 100
21st Linda Macias [28] 17,181
17.1 / 100
15th Luisa Evonne Valdez [29] 1,343
2.6 / 100
2012 27th Angel Torres [30] 3,702
5.28 / 100
26th Haryaksha Knauer [31] 1,872
2.18 / 100
2016 26th Cara Nicole Trujillo [32] 6,327
11.5 / 100
3rd Edward ‘Trey’ Cizek [33] 10,150
12.07 / 100
1st Haryaksha Knauer [34] 9,407
6.67 / 100
5th Leo Biasiucci [35] 7,648
6.84 / 100
18th Linda Macias [36] 14,475
12.3 / 100
2018 3rd Beryl Baker [37] 8,566
11.58 / 100
10th Joshua Reilly [38] 7,896
5.7 / 100
16th Richard Grayson [39] 11,646
8.3 / 100
4th Sara Mae Williams [40] 8,334
15.34 / 100

County Elections

YearOfficeCandidateVotes%
2016 Pima County Board of
Supervisors 		Martin Bastidas [41] 12,143
21.48 / 100
Pima County Board of
Supervisors 		Joshua Reilly [42] 26,150
27.27 / 100

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