2020 presidential election | |
  Nominees Hawkins and Walker | |
| Convention | |
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| Date(s) | July 9–12, 2020 |
| Venue | Online |
| Candidates | |
| Presidential nominee | Howie Hawkins of New York |
| Vice presidential nominee | Angela Walker of South Carolina |
| Voting | |
| Total delegates | 358[1] |
| Votes needed for nomination | 179 Simple majority |
 2020 U.S. presidential election | |
|---|---|
| Attempts to overturn | |
| Democratic Party | |
| Republican Party | |
| Third parties | |
| Related races | |
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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.
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]
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.
The following people were announced as speakers at the convention:[5]
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This section is about the convention delegate vote. For primary and caucus results, see 2020 Green Party presidential primaries. |
At the convention, vote totals for the options were given, including an incorrect sum for the lumped-together None of the above and Uncommitted votes. Ballot Access News reported, as in previous years, the delegation-by-delegation votes, lumping together No nominee, None of the above and Uncommitted votes and omitting candidates not qualified by the GNC (Jesse Ventura, Kent Mesplay, Susan Lochoki and Bernie Sanders), except for in totals, and making a mistake on the line for the GP of Texas, though the totals are correct.
| Candidate | Delegates | Percentage | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Howie Hawkins | 210 | 58.82% | |
| Dario Hunter | 102 | 28.57% | |
| Sedinam Moyowasifza-Curry | 11.5 | 3.22% | |
| Dennis Lambert | 8.5 | 2.38% | |
| Jesse Ventura | 7 | 1.96% | [a] |
| Uncommitted | 6 | 1.68% | [b] |
| David Rolde | 4.5 | 1.26% | |
| No nominee | 3 | 0.84% | [c] |
| Kent Mesplay | 2 | 0.56% | [d] |
| Susan Lochoki | 1 | 0.28% | [d] |
| None of the above | 1 | 0.28% | [e] |
| Bernie Sanders | 0.5 | 0.14% | [f] |
| Totals | 357 | 100% | [g] |
Angela Walker was approved by consensus by the 221 delegates, securing the nomination as vice-presidential candidate.[6]