The Kansas Green Party is an independent

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Kansas Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the w ...

. It is the Kansas state affiliate of the

Green Party of the United States The Green Party of the United States (GPUS) is a federation of Green state political parties in the United States. The party promotes green politics, specifically environmentalism; nonviolence; social justice; participatory democracy, grassroot ...

. The party meets in

Topeka Topeka ( ; Kansa: ; iow, Dópikˀe, script=Latn or ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the seat of Shawnee County. It is along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, in northeast Kansas, in the Central U ...

, Lawrence, and

Kansas City The Kansas City metropolitan area is a bi-state metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri. Its 14 counties straddle the border between the U.S. states of Missouri (9 counties) and Kansas (5 counties). With and a population of more th ...

Elections

2020

Green Party presidential nominee

Howie Hawkins } Howard Gresham Hawkins III (born December 8, 1952) is an American trade unionist, environmental activist, and perennial candidate from New York. A co-founder of the Green Party of the United States, Hawkins was the party's presidential nomine ...

' name did not appear on the general election ballot; however, Kansas was one of five states in which voters could write-in his name. As a write-in candidate, the Hawkins-Walker ticket received 669 votes in the state. In an interview during the campaign, Hawkins argued that in Kansas, among other traditionally Republican states, the Green Party had the potential to be "the second party starting out" because of Democrats' underperformance, and that in such states it's in Green candidates' best interest to "run as a Green on the full program".

Ballot access

2019

In 2019, a bill was introduced into committee in the Kansas legislature to reduce the number of signatures required for third parties to attain ballot access, by halving the number of required signatures and doubling the length of time in which to collect them. The Kansas Green Party supported the bill, with party co-chair Nick Blessing observing that ballot access grants third parties the ability to run candidates for many different offices without petitioning for each individually, and pointing to the fact that nearly 60 state House seats had been uncontested in the last election.

2021

In February 2021, the Kansas Green Party announced that, starting on April 22, 2021, they would begin the process of petitioning for party status. This made the party the second since 1998 to start the petition process, and the first since 2011.

Presidential nominee results

List of chairs

References

External links

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Kansas City Greens

Political parties in Kansas State and local socialist parties in the United States {{green-party-stub