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2020 Green National Convention

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.

Convention

July 9–12, 2020

Online

Howie Hawkins of New York

Angela Walker of South Carolina

358[1]

179
Simple majority

Site selection[edit]

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[edit]

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% 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.

Green Party 2016 vice-presidential nominee, political activist and scholar, whose work has appeared in Black Agenda Report, Common Dreams, and Dissident Voice

Ajamu Baraka

advisor to Physicians for a National Health Plan (PNHP) and co-founder of Health Over Profit for Everyone (HOPE)

Margaret Flowers

member of the Minneapolis City Council since 2006, co-founder of the Green Party of Minnesota

Cam Gordon

Robin Harris, Green Party and George Floyd Rebellions. Green Party National Black Caucus co-chair and 2018 Green Party candidate for Orange County Commissioner, Florida.

co-pastor of the Reformed Church of Highland Park, New Jersey; 2017 Green Party candidate for governor of New Jersey; author of A Voice for Justice: Sermons that Prepared a Congregation to Respond to God in the Decade After 9/11

Seth Kaper-Dale

Margaret Kimberly, co-founder, editor and columnist for Black Agenda Report; author of Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents

two-term member of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, Australia

Jenny Leong

Lisa Savage, Maine Green Independent Party's candidate for U.S. Senate, running in a ranked choice voting election for that office

presidential candidate in 2016 and 2012; keynote: "Greens – more than ever, we are the ones we've been waiting for"

Jill Stein

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

Vice-presidential delegate vote[edit]

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

2020 Green Party presidential primaries

2020 Republican National Convention

2020 Democratic National Convention

2020 Libertarian National Convention

2020 Constitution Party National Convention

2020 United States presidential election