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Green Party of Virginia
Green Party of Virginia
Non-Male Co-chair	Vacant
Non-Female Co-chair	Tom Yager
Treasurer	Kirit Mookerjee
Founded	1993
Headquarters	P.O. Box 7316; Falls Church, Virginia 22040
Ideology	Green politics; Eco-socialism; Anti-capitalism; Communalism; Municipalization
Political position	Left-wing
National affiliation	Green Party of the United States
Colors	Green
Seats in the US Senate	0 / 2
Seats in the US House	0 / 11
Seats in the VA Senate	0 / 40
Seats in the VA House	0 / 100
VA statewide offices held	0 / 3
Lord Fairfax; Conservation District	1 / 12
Skyline; Conservation District	1 / 10
Website
	www.VAGreenParty.org
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The Green Party of Virginia (GPVA) is a state-level political party in Virginia founded in 1993. It is the state affiliate of the Green Party of the United States.

GPVA runs candidates on an ecology platform. The party had its first electoral victory in 1997.^[4]

Campaigns

The Green Party of Virginia consistently elects Directors to Soil & Water Conservation Districts and often runs candidates for various local positions and for the state legislature.

The party earned its first electoral victories in November 1997 when Phil Welch was elected to the Buena Vista Soil & Water Conservation District board ^[5] and Stephanie Porras was elected to the Lexington Soil & Conservation District Board.^[6] Since that time, several other GPVA members have run for office in both partisan and non-partisan races, with notable victories at the town council and SWCD level.

In 2015, Jeff Staples ran for Virginia House of Delegates in the 81st District against Republican Barry Knight and received a total of 30.3% of the vote.^{[citation needed]}

In 2016, Montigue Magruder and Rebecca Keel ran in the Richmond citywide elections and gathered nearly 12% of the votes in their respective districts. Kristen Lawson won the seat to represent Richmond's 4th district with 4,762 votes, 36.9% of the total.^{[citation needed]}

Presidential elections

Year	Nominee	Votes
1996	Ralph Nader	Not on ballot
2000	Ralph Nader	59,398 (2.17%)
2004	David Cobb (write-in)	104 (<0.01%)
2008	Cynthia McKinney	2,344 (0.06%)
2012	Jill Stein	8,627 (0.22%)
2016	Jill Stein	27,638 (0.69%)
2020	Howie Hawkins (write-in)	TBA

Officeholders

Current

Ira Richards, Lord Fairfax Soil & Water Conservation District Board of Directors^[7]
Thomas Adams, Skyline Soil & Water Conservation District Board of Directors^[8]

Former

List incomplete

Kathleen Harrigan, Fredericksburg Soil & Water Conservation District Board of Directors
Daniel Metraux, Staunton Soil & Water Conservation District Board of Directors
Chris Simmons, Loudoun Soil & Water Conservation District Board of Directors
Buck Richards, Warren County Soil & Water Conservation District Board of Directors
Giannina Franz, Fredericksburg Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Directors
Wendy Hageman Smith, Appomattox County School Board
Kristen Larson, Richmond City Council District 4

References

^ "Green Party of the United States - National Committee Voting - Proposal Details" Archived 2022-01-24 at the Wayback Machine.
^ "IV. Economic Justice & Sustainability". Some call this decentralized system 'ecological socialism,' 'communalism,' or the 'cooperative commonwealth,' but whatever the terminology, we believe it will help end labor exploitation, environmental exploitation, and racial, gender, and wealth inequality and bring about economic and social justice due to the positive effects of democratic decision making. [...] Production is best for people and planet when democratically owned and operated by those who do the work and those most affected by production decisions.
^ "IV. Economic Justice & Sustainability". "We will build an economy based on large-scale green public works, municipalization, and workplace and community democracy".
^ "Previous Electoral Campaigns". Green Party of Virginia. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
^ http://216.92.191.78/elections/candidates.php?candidateId=1015&electionId=77&year=^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ http://216.92.191.78/elections/candidates.php?candidateId=1174&electionId=77&year=^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "Ira Richards Runs for Soil and Water Conservation District, 2019". GP Elections. Retrieved September 19, 2020.
^ "Thomas Adams Runs for Soil and Water Conservation District, 2019". GP Elections. Retrieved September 19, 2020.

External links

[1] "Green Party of the United States - National Committee Voting - Proposal Details" Archived 2022-01-24 at the Wayback Machine.

[2] "IV. Economic Justice & Sustainability". Some call this decentralized system 'ecological socialism,' 'communalism,' or the 'cooperative commonwealth,' but whatever the terminology, we believe it will help end labor exploitation, environmental exploitation, and racial, gender, and wealth inequality and bring about economic and social justice due to the positive effects of democratic decision making. [...] Production is best for people and planet when democratically owned and operated by those who do the work and those most affected by production decisions.

[3] "IV. Economic Justice & Sustainability". "We will build an economy based on large-scale green public works, municipalization, and workplace and community democracy".

[4] "Previous Electoral Campaigns". Green Party of Virginia. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2015.

[5] ttp://216.92.191.78/elections/candidates.php?candidateId=1015&electionId=77&year=^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[6] ttp://216.92.191.78/elections/candidates.php?candidateId=1174&electionId=77&year=^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[7] "Ira Richards Runs for Soil and Water Conservation District, 2019". GP Elections. Retrieved September 19, 2020.

[8] "Thomas Adams Runs for Soil and Water Conservation District, 2019". GP Elections. Retrieved September 19, 2020.

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+| name = Green Party of Virginia
+<!--|party_articletitle=Green Party (United States)-->| logo = Green Party of Virginia logo.png
+| headquarters = P.O. Box 7316<br />[[Falls Church, Virginia]] 22040
+| leader1_title = Non-Male Co-chair
+| leader1_name = Vacant
+| leader2_title = Non-Female Co-chair
+| leader2_name = Tom Yager
+| leader3_title = Treasurer
+| leader3_name = Kirit Mookerjee
+| foundation = 1993
+| national = [[Green Party (United States)|Green Party of the United States]]
+| colors = Green
+| colorcode = {{party color|Green Party (US)}}
+| position = [[Left-wing politics|Left-wing]]
+| ideology = [[Green politics]]<br>[[Eco-socialism]]<ref>[http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=835_blank "Green Party of the United States - National Committee Voting - Proposal Details"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220124155132/https://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=835_blank |date=2022-01-24 }}.</ref><br>[[Anti-capitalism]]<br>[[Communalism (Bookchin)|Communalism]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gp.org/economic_justice_and_sustainability_2016|title=IV. Economic Justice & Sustainability|quote=Some call this decentralized system 'ecological socialism,' 'communalism,' or the 'cooperative commonwealth,' but whatever the terminology, we believe it will help end labor exploitation, environmental exploitation, and racial, gender, and wealth inequality and bring about economic and social justice due to the positive effects of democratic decision making. [...] Production is best for people and planet when democratically owned and operated by those who do the work and those most affected by production decisions}}.</ref><br>[[Municipalization]]<ref>[http://www.gp.org/economic_justice_and_sustainability_2016 "IV. Economic Justice & Sustainability"]. "We will build an economy based on large-scale green public works, municipalization, and workplace and community democracy".</ref>
+| state = Virginia
+| website = [http://www.vagreenparty.org/ www.VAGreenParty.org]
+| footnotes =
+| seats1_title = Seats in the [[United States Senate|US Senate]]
+| seats1 = {{Composition bar|0|2|hex={{party color|Green Party (US)}}}}
+| seats2_title = Seats in the [[United States House of Representatives|US House]]
+| seats2 = {{Composition bar|0|11|hex={{party color|Green Party (US)}}}}
+| seats3_title = Seats in the [[Senate of Virginia|VA Senate]]
+| seats3 = {{Composition bar|0|40|hex={{party color|Green Party (US)}}}}
+| seats4_title = Seats in the [[Virginia House of Delegates|VA House]]
+| seats4 = {{Composition bar|0|100|hex={{party color|Green Party (US)}}}}
+| seats5_title = [[Government of Virginia|VA statewide offices held]]
+| seats5 = {{Composition bar|0|3|hex={{party color|Green Party (US)}}}}
+| seats6_title = Lord Fairfax<br>[[Conservation district|Conservation District]]
+| seats6 = {{Composition bar|1|12|hex={{party color|Green Party (United States)}}}}
+| seats7_title = Skyline<br>[[Conservation district|Conservation District]]
+| seats7 = {{Composition bar|1|10|hex={{party color|Green Party (United States)}}}}
 }}
+The '''Green Party of Virginia''' '''(GPVA)''' is a state-level [[political party]] in [[Virginia]] founded in 1993. It is the state affiliate of the [[Green Party (United States)|Green Party of the United States]].
+GPVA runs candidates on an [[environmentalism|ecology]] platform. The party had its first electoral victory in 1997.<ref>{{cite web|title=Previous Electoral Campaigns|url=http://www.vagreenparty.org/electoral_archives.html|publisher=Green Party of Virginia|access-date=18 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222114237/http://www.vagreenparty.org/electoral_archives.html|archive-date=22 December 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>
-The '''Green Party of Virginia''' (GPVA) is the [[Virginia]] state affiliate of the [[Green Party (United States)|Green Party of the United States]].
 ==Campaigns==
+The Green Party of Virginia consistently elects Directors to Soil & Water Conservation Districts and often runs candidates for various local positions and for the state legislature.
-GPVA focuses on local elections for offices such as the [[Virginia House of Delegates]], town council, board of supervisors, and soil & water conservation district (SWCD) board of directors. The party earned its first electoral victories in November 1997 when [[Phil Welch]] was elected to the Buena Vista Soil & Water Conservation District board <ref>http://216.92.191.78/elections/candidates.php?candidateId=1015&electionId=77&year=</ref> and Stephanie Porras was elected to the Lexington Soil & Conservation District board.<ref>http://216.92.191.78/elections/candidates.php?candidateId=1174&electionId=77&year=</ref> Since that time, several other GPVA members have run for office in both partisan and non-partisan races, with some success at the town council and SWCD level.
+The party earned its first electoral victories in November 1997 when Phil Welch was elected to the Buena Vista Soil & Water Conservation District board <ref>http://216.92.191.78/elections/candidates.php?candidateId=1015&electionId=77&year={{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and Stephanie Porras was elected to the Lexington Soil & Conservation District Board.<ref>http://216.92.191.78/elections/candidates.php?candidateId=1174&electionId=77&year={{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Since that time, several other GPVA members have run for office in both partisan and non-partisan races, with notable victories at the town council and SWCD level.
-The most notable campaigns for office by a GPVA candidate in a partisan election have been [[Josh Ruebner]]'s  2006, 2007 and 2008 candidacies for the [[Arlington County]] Board of Supervisors. Ruebner received extensive local media coverage for both campaigns. In 2007 he received a vote from 10.3% of Arlingtonians who came to the polls (two votes may be cast for the [[Arlington County]] Board of Supervisors race; he received 3,253 votes from among the 31,511 people who were counted as having voted), an unusually high percentage for a Virginia third party candidate running under a party label. Reeder received a vote share of 23.3% for the [[Arlington County]] Board in the 2008 elections. His vote count was 21,503, a figure which represents a significant increase of 10% from the 2007 elections. Reeder achieved this by running on a platform to promote affordable housing, increase recycling opportunities, and trim government waste. Furthermore, a Green Party-backed referendum to establish a housing authority, with the aim of increasing the County's available tools to address an ever-deepening affordable housing crisis, won 33% of the votes despite the opposition of both Democratic and Republican parties.<ref name="vagreenparty1">{{cite web|url=http://www.vagreenparty.org/press/pr081105.html |title=The Green Party of Virginia - Press Release |publisher=Vagreenparty.org |date=2008-11-07 |accessdate=2010-09-04}}</ref>
+In 2015, Jeff Staples ran for Virginia House of Delegates in the 81st District against Republican Barry Knight and received a total of 30.3% of the vote.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}
-==Independent Greens split==
-When the state meeting of the Green Party of Virginia refused to recognize Carey Campbell's installation as chair of the Arlington local of the GPVA <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vagreenparty.org/meetings/prop040208.html |title=Proposals to be Decided Upon at the First Quarterly Business Meeting of 2004 |publisher=The Green Party of Virginia |date=2004-01-08 |accessdate=2008-05-24 }}</ref> and overturned Campbell's election to chair of the chapter and the election of the other officers due to clear violations of party bylaws. Campbell and others participating in the vote were not members of the local party and at least two people who voted were not party members. Campbell and several others, unhappy with this expected decision, formed the [[Independent Greens of Virginia]] and attempted to affiliate with the state party.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vagreens.org/minutes/mt040208.html |title=State Meeting (Minutes) |publisher=The Green Party of Virginia |date=2004-02-08 |accessdate=2008-05-24 }}</ref> When this affiliation was denied, Campbell and Joe Oddo turned the Independent Greens of Virginia into a new statewide party.
+In 2016, Montigue Magruder and Rebecca Keel ran in the Richmond citywide elections and gathered nearly 12% of the votes in their respective districts. Kristen Lawson won the seat to represent Richmond's 4th district with 4,762 votes, 36.9% of the total.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}
 ==Presidential elections==
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 |-
 |[[United States presidential election in Virginia, 1996|1996]]
-|[[Ralph Nader]]
+|[[Ralph Nader presidential campaign, 1996|Ralph Nader]]
 |Not on ballot
 |-
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 |[[United States presidential election in Virginia, 2004|2004]]
-|[[David Cobb]] (write-in)
+|[[David Cobb (activist)|David Cobb]] (write-in)
 |104 (<0.01%)
 |-
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 |[[Jill Stein presidential campaign, 2012|Jill Stein]]
 |8,627 (0.22%)
+|-
+|[[United States presidential election in Virginia, 2016|2016]]
+|[[Jill Stein presidential campaign, 2016|Jill Stein]]
+|27,638 (0.69%)
+|-
+|[[2020 United States presidential election in Virginia|2020]]
+|[[Howie Hawkins]] (write-in)
+|TBA
 |}
+==Officeholders==
-==Current officeholders==
+===Current===
+*Ira Richards, Lord Fairfax Soil & Water Conservation District Board of Directors<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gpelections.org/races/ira-richards-runs-for-soil-and-water-conservation-district-2019/|title=Ira Richards Runs for Soil and Water Conservation District, 2019|publisher=GP Elections|access-date=September 19, 2020}}</ref>
+*Thomas Adams, Skyline Soil & Water Conservation District Board of Directors<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gpelections.org/races/thomas-adams-runs-for-soil-and-water-conservation-district-2019/|title=Thomas Adams Runs for Soil and Water Conservation District, 2019|publisher=GP Elections|access-date=September 19, 2020}}</ref>
+===Former===
+''List incomplete''
 *Kathleen Harrigan, Fredericksburg Soil & Water Conservation District Board of Directors
 *Daniel Metraux, Staunton Soil & Water Conservation District Board of Directors
 *Chris Simmons, Loudoun Soil & Water Conservation District Board of Directors
+*Buck Richards, Warren County Soil & Water Conservation District Board of Directors
+*Giannina Franz, Fredericksburg Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Directors
+*Wendy Hageman Smith, Appomattox County School Board
+*Kristen Larson, Richmond City Council District 4
 ==References==
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 ==External links==
 * [http://www.vagreenparty.org/ Green Party of Virginia]
-* [http://www.gpus.org/ Green Party of the United States]
+* [http://www.gp.org/ Green Party of the United States]
-* [http://www.voteruebner.com/ Josh Ruebner 2007 campaign site]
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-[[Category:Politics of Virginia]]
+[[Category:Political parties in Virginia]]
 [[Category:Green Party of the United States by state|Virginia]]
+[[Category:1993 establishments in Virginia]]
+[[Category:State and local socialist parties in the United States]]

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