About The Green Party
About The Green Party
The Green Party has its origins in the environmental, civil rights, anti-war, anti-nuclear, and feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s. The first Green parties formed in Tasmania and New Zealand in 1972. Today there are Green parties and political movements in over 90 countries. Green parties have elected representatives in all corners of the world at local, state, and national levels and in the European Parliament.
The Green Party began in the United States in 1984 with the formation of the Green Committees Of Correspondence. The Ten Key Values were adopted at this time. In 1990, the Green Party Of Alaska became the first Green party in the U.S. to achieve ballot status. Today, the Green Party has state parties in 39 states and has ballot status in 18 states. In 1986, only one Green candidate stood for election in the United States. As of July 2025, 158 Greens hold elected office in the U.S..
The Green Party Of New York
GPNY first obtained ballot status in 1998 after organizing in this state since the late 1980s. We lost ballot status in 2002, but won a federal court order in 2005 directing the Board Of Elections to continue allowing New Yorkers to enroll in the Green Party or in any other party that successfully places a candidate on the ballot in the previous gubernatorial election. GPNY qualified again in 2010 and re-qualified in the 2014 and 2018 general election.
The Steuben County Green Party
The Steuben County Green Party formed in 2002. We work on Green issues and run candidates in local, state, and federal elections. Four members of the Steuben Greens have run for public office. Most recently Elizabeth Whitehouse was the Green Party candidate for Mayor of the city of Corning in 2019 and Jamie Cooney was the candidate for Corning Town Council. Jamie was appointed to the village of South Corning Board Of Trustees in 2020.