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Illinois Green Party
Abbreviation	ILGP
Chairperson	Zerlina Smith
House Leader	None
Senate Leader	None
Headquarters	213 S. Wheaton Ave, Wheaton, Illinois, 60189
Student wing	Young Greens
Ideology	Green politics
Political position	Left-wing
National affiliation	Green Party of the United States
Colors	Green
Illinois Senate	0 / 59
Illinois House of Representatives	0 / 118
Statewide Officers	0 / 6
Local offices	4 (2022)
Website
www.ilgp.org
Politics of Illinois Elections

The Illinois Green Party is a statewide political party in Illinois. The party is state affiliate of the Green Party of the United States.

The party ran its first statewide candidates in 2006, led by Rich Whitney, candidate for Illinois Governor, who received 361,336 votes, 10% of the total vote, making the Green Party one of only three legally established, statewide political parties in Illinois (in addition to the Democratic and Republican parties) until it lost that status in 2010.

There are currently 12 local chapters affiliated with the party, and 2 members holding elected positions in local government in the state.

Political positions

Like the national party, the Illinois Green Party promotes the "Ten Key Values" of the Green Party platform: ecological wisdom, social justice, grassroots democracy, nonviolence, decentralization, community-based economics, feminism, respect for diversity, personal and global responsibility, and a focus on the future.

Elections

2008

At the 2007 Green National Meeting the Illinois Green Party submitted a proposal to host the 2008 Green Party National Convention in Chicago, which was chosen by the party's national committee over submissions from four other cities.

As an established party it was entitled to a presidential primary, if at least two candidates qualify for that primary. In 2007, Illinois law required all candidates in the presidential primary to submit 3,000 signatures by November. On November 5, 2007 the deadline for candidate petitions to run in the Green presidential primary, four candidates filed: Cynthia McKinney, Kent Mesplay, Jared Ball and Howie Hawkins. Illinois was one of only eight state affiliates of the Green Party to hold presidential primaries in 2008.

In 2008, 32 Green Party candidates filed petitions to run in the Illinois Green Party primary before the filing deadline. The party also had the power to fill ballot vacancies in races where nobody was picked in the February 5 primary. Following the primary and state party convention, the party fielded 60 candidates for the November general election.

2010

In 2010, Rich Whitney again ran for Governor of Illinois. LeAlan Jones, a journalist and activist from Chicago's South Side, ran for Senate. Both were uncontested in the June primary. Both Whitney and Jones were excluded from televised debates, despite the Green Party's 'Major Party' status. Whitney and Jones filed a lawsuit against Public Broadcasting Station member WTTW for excluding them. A private vendor of ballots misspelled Rich Whitney's name as Rich 'Whitey' in 23 Chicago wards, about half of which were in predominantly African-American neighborhoods. There is no evidence this was intentional.

Jones was polling as high as 14% in a June 2010 poll, but ended up with 3.18% of the vote. In August 2010, Whitney polled 11% in a Public Policy Polling survey, but finally received just 2.70% of the vote. As neither candidate received over 5% of the vote statewide, the Illinois Green Party lost its 'Major Party' status.

2014

Scott Summers ran for governor and Sheldon Schafer ran for secretary of state as write-in candidates after being knocked off the statewide slate.

2016

In 2016, the Green Party ran Scott Summers for U.S. Senate and Tim Curtin for Illinois Comptroller.

Dr. Jill Stein was the party's nominee for President.

2020

In 2020, Howie Hawkins won the nomination over Dario Hunter. In the general election, Howie Hawkins received 30,494 votes, less than 1%.

See also

• Illinois gubernatorial election, 2006
• 2006 Election for statewide offices in the State of Illinois
• 2020 United States presidential election in Illinois
• Government of Illinois

References

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7. "Ballot Access News - Illinois Greens Determined to Have a Presidential Primary". ballot-access.org.
8. Illinois Democratic, Green Presidential Primary Filing Deadline is Today Ballot Access News, November 5, 2007
9. "Local News for Grundy County". Morris Daily Herald.
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11. http://openmindsandopenhearts.blogspot.com/2008/04/illinois-greens-field-60-candidates.html
12. "Rich Whitney, Lealan Jones, and the ILGP File Suit Against WTTW over Debate Exclusion :: 2010-10-31 00:00:00". Archived from the original on 2 November 2010. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
13. Good, Chris (October 15, 2010). "A Vote for 'Rich Whitey'". The Atlantic. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
14. Lach, Eric. "Illinois Candidate's Name Misspelled As 'Rich Whitey' On Electronic-Voting Machines". Talking Points Memo. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
15. "Brady Expands Lead over Quinn" (PDF). Public Policy Polling. August 18, 2010. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
16. "2 Green Party candidates to run as write-ins". Chicago. 2 September 2014. Archived from the original on 24 February 2015.
17. "It's Official We WILL be Able to Vote for the Greater Good in Illinois". Archived from the original on 2017-08-16. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
18. "1 Stein easily wins Illinois Green Party presidential preference vote". Green Party Watch. 21 February 2016. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
19. Brown, Mark (25 October 2016). "Brown: Greens say GOP ploy adds 'insult' but no injury". Chicago: Chicago Sun Times. Archived from the original on 5 January 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
20. Sandvoss, Steve, ed. (December 4, 2020). Official Canvass of the 2020 Illinois General Election. Springfield, Illinois: Illinois State Board of Elections. Retrieved July 25, 2023.

External links

• Illinois Green Party (Official site)
• ILGP on Facebook
• ILGP MySpace page

v t e Illinois political parties
Major	Democratic Republican
Minor	Constitution Green Libertarian Socialist
Defunct	Anti-Mormon Solidarity Harold Washington Party Moderate
Political party strength in Illinois

• Political parties in Illinois
• Green Party of the United States by state
• Illinois Greens