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==Green parties==
===Africa===
Some national Green parties began forming in Africa in the 1980s and 1990s, but they often struggled to gain influence.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20100304-green-politics-make-their-debut|title=Green politics make their debut|date=March 4, 2010|website=RFI}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dw.com/en/africas-green-parties-bet-on-international-help/a-49594924|title=Africa's Green parties bet on international help &#124; DW &#124; 15.07.2019|website=DW.COM}}</ref>

[[Wangari Maathai]] was perhaps the most prominent and successful member of a Green party in Africa: after founding the [[Green Belt Movement]] and the [[Mazingira Green Party of Kenya]], she was elected to the Kenyan Parliament in 2002, became an assistant minister for Environmental and Natural Resources, and won the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] in 2004.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://en.unesco.org/womeninafrica/wangari-maathai/biography|title=Wangari Maathai biography &#124; Women|website=en.unesco.org}}</ref> Other African Green parties that have achieved parliamentary representation include [[Les Verts Fraternels]] of [[Mauritius]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.africangreens.org/distinguished-african-greens|title=Distinguished African Greens|date=June 17, 2011|website=African Green Federation}}</ref> and [[Frank Habineza]]'s [[Democratic Green Party of Rwanda]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-rwanda-politics-idUSKCN1LL2HI|title=Two opposition lawmakers elected in Rwanda for the first time|date=September 5, 2018|via=www.reuters.com}}</ref> In [[Senegal]], Green party leader [[Haïdar el Ali]] was appointed Minister for Ecology in 2012.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/2016/1020/How-Haidar-el-Ali-became-one-of-Africa-s-best-known-environmentalists|title=How Haidar el Ali became one of Africa's best-known environmentalists|date=October 20, 2016|journal=Christian Science Monitor}}</ref>

===Asia and Oceania===

====Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu====
{{see also|Asia Pacific Greens Federation}}
Green parties have achieved national or state parliamentary representation in [[New Zealand]], [[Australia]] and [[Vanuatu]]. In New Zealand the [[Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand]] currently holds 15 seats in the [[New Zealand House of Representatives]] after the [[2023 New Zealand general election|2023 general election]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://electionresults.govt.nz/electionresults_2023/|title=NEW ZEALAND 2023 GENERAL ELECTION - OFFICIAL RESULTS|last=New Zealand Electoral Commission}}</ref> The [[Australian Greens]] hold 11 seats in the [[Australian Senate]] and 4 seats in the [[Australian House of Representatives]]. Since [[2004 Australian federal election|2004]], they have received more votes than any other third party in every federal election. They also have representation in the upper and lower houses of [[Parliaments of the Australian states and territories|state parliaments]] of five states and in the unicameral chamber of one territory. Greens also hold representative positions in local government across New Zealand and Australia (where a number of local government authorities are controlled by Green councilors). The Greens took the seat of Melbourne from the Australian Labor Party in 2010 with candidate [[Adam Bandt]]. This was the first time the Greens have won a Lower House seat at a general election (although they have previously won two seats at by-elections).

[[Proportional representation]] in the Australian Senate and in New Zealand has strengthened the position of the Australian Greens and the Green Party of New Zealand and enabled them to participate directly in legislatures and policy-making committees. In countries following British-style '[[majoritarian|first past the post]]' electoral rules, Green parties face barriers to gaining federal or provincial/regional/state seats. The [[Australian Labor Party]]'s practice of allocating a portion of ALP [[Group voting ticket|ticket votes]] to Australian Greens has helped bring AG candidates into parliament.

In the [[2008 Australian Capital Territory election|2008 ACT election]] in Australia, the Greens won 15.6% of the vote, winning 4 out of 17 seats. Shane Rattenbury was elected the speaker of the assembly, the first time a Green party member had held such a position in any parliament or assembly in Australia. However, they retained only one seat at the [[2012 Australian Capital Territory election|2012 election]] in the same territory.

The [[Green Confederation]] (''Confédération Verte'') in [[Vanuatu]] won 3 out of 52 seats in [[2012 Vanuatuan general election|the last general election]] in October 2012. Its most prominent member is [[Moana Carcasses Kalosil]], who became [[Prime Minister of Vanuatu|prime minister]] in March 2013.<ref>[http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/radio/program/pacific-beat/moana-carcasses-named-new-vanuatu-pm/1106450 "Moana Carcasses named new Vanuatu PM"], [[Radio Australia]], 25 March 2013</ref> Carcasses, a [[Green liberal]],<ref>[http://www.imf.org/external/np/seminars/eng/2012/pic/pdf/MckCV.pdf "Moana Carcassés Kalosil"], [[IMF]]</ref> does not lead a Green government, but a broad coalition government in which he is the only Green minister.<ref>[http://www.dailypost.vu/content/nations-interest-first-carcasses "Nation's interest first: Carcasses"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130329020142/http://www.dailypost.vu/content/nations-interest-first-carcasses |date=2013-03-29 }}, ''Vanuatu Daily Post'', 26 March 2013</ref>

There is a [[Papua New Guinea Greens Party]], but it does not have any members in Parliament.<ref>[http://www.ippcc.gov.pg/parties.htm#PNGGreensPrty "Papua New Guinea Greens Party"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120819175032/http://www.ippcc.gov.pg/parties.htm#PNGGreensPrty |date=2012-08-19 }}, Integrity of Political Parties and Candidates Commission</ref> There was briefly a [[Green Party of Fiji|Green Party in Fiji]] from 2008 to 2013; as Parliament was suspended by the military regime during this time, the party was not able to take part in any election before all parties were deregistered in 2013.<ref>[http://www.fijisun.com.fj/2013/06/02/going-green/ "Going Green"], ''Fiji Sun'', 2 June 2013</ref>

====Lebanon====
The [[Green Party of Lebanon]] was founded in 2008 as a secular party.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/Feb/12/Green-Party-holds-annual-congress-in-Beirut.ashx#axzz20FeZq82M |title=Green Party holds annual congress in Beirut &#124; News, Lebanon News |newspaper=The Daily Star |date=2010-02-12 |access-date=2013-08-29 |archive-date=2013-06-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130619051024/http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/Feb/12/Green-Party-holds-annual-congress-in-Beirut.ashx#axzz20FeZq82M |url-status=dead }}</ref> Its first president was Philippe Skaff, CEO of Grey Advertising.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theinnercircle.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/lebanons-green-party/ |title=Lebanon's Green Party &#124; The Lebanese Inner Circle : Blog |publisher=Theinnercircle.wordpress.com |date= 2008-08-22|access-date=2013-08-29}}</ref> The party debuted with the May 2010 municipal elections.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.greenprophet.com/2009/12/green-party-lebanon/ |title=A Green Party Grows in Lebanon |publisher=Green Prophet |date=2009-12-07 |access-date=2013-08-29}}</ref> In 2011, the party became the first political party in [[Lebanon]] to elect a female leader when Nada Zaarour was elected its president.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2011/Sep-06/148043-green-party-becomes-first-in-lebanon-to-elect-female-leader.ashx#axzz20FeZq82M |title=Green Party becomes first in Lebanon to elect female leader &#124; News, Lebanon News |newspaper=The Daily Star |date=2011-09-06 |access-date=2013-08-29}}</ref>

==== Israel ====
Many attempts to establish a green party were made. For example, [[The Greens (Israel)|the Greens]] were established in 1997.<ref>[http://en.idi.org.il/tools-and-data/israeli-elections-and-parties/political-parties/greens/ The Greens] Israel Democracy Institute</ref> In the [[1999 Israeli general election|1999 Knesset elections]] the party received 0.4% of the vote, failing to win a seat. They received the same share of the vote in the [[2003 Israeli legislative election|2003 elections]].

====Pakistan====
The [[Pakistan Green Party]] was founded in 2002.

====Taiwan====
The [[Green Party Taiwan]] was founded in 1996. It is a small party which have often associated with [[Democratic Progressive Party]], a major political party in Taiwan.

===Europe===

====Belgian and German roots====
The first green parties in Europe were founded in the late 1970s, following the rise of [[environmental awareness]] and the development of [[new social movement]]s. Green parties in Belgium first made a breakthrough. Belgium had Green members of parliament elected first in the 1970s, and with seats on the local council, held the balance of power in the city of Liege, so were the first to go into coalition with the ruling party on that council. In 1979 political campaigns and dissident groups feeling underrepresented in west German politics formed a coalition to contest the 1979 elections to the European Parliament.

Although they did not win any seats, the groups in this association formally agreed to become a party and won a breakthrough in the German national elections of 1983. They were not the first Green Party in Europe to have members elected nationally but the impression was created that they had been, because they attracted the most media attention. This was partly due to their charismatic leader [[Petra Kelly]], a German who was of interest to the American media because she had an American step-father. Since its foundation in 1980 and merger with [[Alliance 90]] after the German reunification, Kelly's party, now named [[Alliance '90/The Greens]], has become one of Europe's most important Green parties. It played an important role in the formation of national-level Green parties in other countries [[Confederation of The Greens|such as Spain]] as well. The forerunner of the Green Party in the [[United Kingdom]] was the [[PEOPLE Party]], formed in [[Coventry]] in 1972. It changed its name to the Ecology Party in 1973 and the Green Party in 1985.

====1984–1989: A new political force====
In 1984 Greens agreed a common platform for the European Parliament Elections and the first Green Members of the European Parliament were elected here. Germany, a stronghold of the Green movement, elected seven MEPs; two more came from Belgium and two from the Netherlands. As those eleven MEPs did not entitle the Greens to form a parliamentary group on their own, they concluded an alliance with MEPs from Italy, Denmark, and regionalists from Flanders and Ireland to form the GRAEL (Green Alternative European Link) group, also known as the [[Rainbow Group (1984–89)|Rainbow Group]]. Politically they engaged in the fight against environmental pollution, nuclear energy (1986 saw the Chernobyl disaster), the promotion of animal protection and the campaign against the demolition of Brussels by speculation fuelled by the presence of the European institutions.

====Since the 1990s ====
[[File:Flickr - Saeima - 9.Saeimas deputāts Indulis Emsis.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.70|[[Indulis Emsis]] of the [[Latvian Green Party]] became [[Prime Minister of Latvia]] in 2004, and the world's first green [[head of government]].]]
After years of co-operation between the national Green parties, they formed a pan-European alliance that unites most European Green parties. The Greens are a party within the European parliament with 46 seats, as of June 2009. It has a long-standing alliance with the [[European Free Alliance]] (EFA), an alliance of "stateless nations", such as the Welsh nationalist [[Plaid Cymru]] and [[Scottish National Party]]. Together European Green Party/EFA have 58 seats and they are the fourth largest party in the European Parliament.

While on many issues European Greens practice the same policies, one issue divides European Green parties: the European Union. Some Green parties, like the Dutch [[GreenLeft]], [[Green Party of England and Wales|the Green Party of England and Wales]], the [[Green Party of Switzerland|Swiss Green Party]], the [[Green Party (Ireland)|Irish Green Party]] and the German [[Alliance '90/The Greens]], are [[pro-European]] while some, like the Green party in [[Green Party (Sweden)|Sweden]], are moderately [[eurosceptic]].

Some Green parties have been part of governing coalitions. The first one was the Finnish [[Green League]] that entered government in 1995. The Italian [[Federation of the Greens]], the [[The Greens (France)|French Greens]], the German Alliance '90/The Greens and both Belgian Green parties, the French-speaking [[Ecolo]] and the Dutch-speaking [[Agalev]] were part of government during the late 1990s. Most successful was the [[Latvian Green Party]], who supplied the [[Prime Minister of Latvia]] in 2004. The Swedish [[Green Party (Sweden)|Green Party]] was a long-term supporter of the social-democratic minority government until the election 2006 when the social-democratic party lost. The Irish [[Green Party (Ireland)|Green Party]] is currently [[Government of the 33rd Dáil|in government]], having entered a coalition with [[Fianna Fáil]] and [[Fine Gael]] in June 2020, with three cabinet positions. It was previously in a [[Government of the 30th Dáil|coalition government]] with Fianna Fáil from [[2007 Irish general election|2007]] until January 2011 when the party withdrew their support for the ruling coalition.

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In Scandinavia, left-wing socialist parties have formed the [[Nordic Green Left Alliance]]. These parties have the same ideals as European Greens. However, they do not cooperate with the [[Global Greens]] or European Greens, but instead form a combined parliamentary group with the [[Party of the European Left]], which unites communists and post-communists. There is one exception, in 2004 the MEP for Danish [[Socialist People's Party (Denmark)|Socialist People's Party]] has left the Nordic Green Left parliamentary group and has joined the Green parliamentary group in the European parliament. The Socialist People's Party is currently an observer at the [[European Green Party]] and the Global Greens. Outside of Scandinavia, in 2004, [[Latvia]] became the first country in the world to have a Green politician become Head of Government, but in 2006 the Green Party received only 16.71 percent of the vote. In the [[Estonia]] [[2007 Estonian parliamentary election|2007 parliamentary elections]], the [[Estonian Greens]] won 7.1 percent of the vote, and a mandate for six seats in the country's parliament, the [[Riigikogu]]. Other significant electoral results for European green parties include Germany's [[Alliance '90/The Greens]] in the [[2002 German federal election|2002 federal election]] and France's [[Europe Ecology – The Greens]] in the [[2012 French legislative election|2012 legislative election]], in which they both won more seats than any other [[Third party (politics)|third party]].
[[File:Caroline Lucas 2010.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.7|British MP [[Caroline Lucas]] was the UK's first green politician elected under the [[first-past-the-post]] system.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7693262/General-Election-2010-first-Green-MP-hails-victory-for-the-politics-of-hope.html|title=General Election 2010: first Green MP edges out Labour|date=7 May 2010|access-date=6 December 2016|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|last=Gray|first=Louise}}</ref>]] 
In some countries Greens have found it difficult to win any representation in the national parliament. Three reasons can be found for this. It includes countries with a first past the post electoral system, such as the United Kingdom. However, despite the [[first past the post]] system in the United Kingdom, the [[Green Party of England and Wales]] won their first seat in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] when [[Caroline Lucas]] won the seat of [[Brighton Pavilion (UK Parliament constituency)|Brighton Pavilion]] in 2010. In July 2024, after a targeted campaign, 4 Green MPs were elected in Bristol Central, Waveney Valley, North Herefordshire and Brighton Pavilion. The [[Scottish Greens]] have had success in the devolved [[Scottish Parliament]] having recently signed a deal to enter a governing coalition, whilst the [[Green Party Northern Ireland]] has had success in the devolved [[Northern Ireland Assembly]] and [[local elections]] where the first-past-the-post system is not used. In countries where a party with similar ideals is stronger, such as [[Green Party (Norway)|Norway]] and Denmark, Green parties tend to perform worse. In some [[Eastern European]] countries, like [[Ecologist Party of Romania|Romania]], Green parties are still in the process of formation and have therefore not gained enough support. In [[The Greens (Poland)|Poland]] the Green Party, registered in 2004, won their first three seats in the Sejm in 2019. The [[Green Party of Bulgaria]] was founded in Sofia in 1989 by [[Aleksandar Karakachanov]]. Green Movement (ZD) was a member of an anti-corruption coalition - [[Democratic Bulgaria|Democratic Bulgaria (DB)]]. [[Ecoglasnost]] is a member of the [[BSP for Bulgaria]] coalition. For the elections in 2022, the Party of the Greens (Партия на зелените, ПнЗ, PnZ) joined<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cik |first=Central Electoral Commission |title=РЕШЕНИЕ № 1309-НС София, 17 август 2022 г. |url=https://www.cik.bg/bg/decisions/1309/2022-08-17 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230302101023/https://www.cik.bg/bg/decisions/1309/2022-08-17 |archive-date=2023-03-02 |website=cik.bg}}</ref> the [[Bulgarian Rise]] coalition.

The [[European Green Party]] has worked to support weak Green parties in European countries. Until recently, they were giving support to Green parties in the Mediterranean countries. These Green parties are now making electoral gains, e.g. in Spain, [[Ecologists Greens|Greece]] and [[Ecological and Environmental Movement|Republic of Cyprus]], or getting organized to do so, e.g. in [[Democratic Alternative (Malta)|Malta]]. Therefore, the EGP is now turning its attention to Eastern Europe – all these countries have Green parties, but in materially poor Eastern Europe the success of Green Parties is patchy except for Hungary, where the local Green party, [[Politics Can Be Different]] (LMP), has been elected to parliament and many city councils.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://greenparty.org.uk/international/international/81/gewd.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030110112650/http://www.greenparty.org.uk/international/international/81/gewd.htm|url-status=dead|title=Text about the Green East-West Dialogue|archive-date=January 10, 2003}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.europeangreens.org/peopleandparties/networks/gewd.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030113181805/http://europeangreens.org/peopleandparties/networks/gewd.html|url-status=dead|title=The Green East-West Dialogue|archive-date=January 13, 2003}}</ref>

In [[2021 Croatian local elections]] [[We can! (Croatia)|We can!]] party became the largest political party in the [[Zagreb Assembly]], winning 23 seats in total. Their mayoral candidate [[Tomislav Tomašević]] won a landslide victory on 31 May.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-05-30|title=Leftist-green candidate elected mayor of Croatia's capital|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/leftistgreen-candidate-elected-mayor-of-croatias-capital-croatia-zagreb-european-union-europe-adriatic-sea-b1856755.html|access-date=2021-12-15|website=The Independent|language=en}}</ref>

====Germany====

As mentioned above, the German green party holds strong influence in terms of green politics in Europe. The German green party: Alliance 90/The Greens ([[Alliance 90/The Greens|Bündnis 90/Die Grünen]]) was founded in 1993 after the West German green party (Die Grünen, formed in 1980) and the East German green party (Bündnis 90, formed in 1990) joined after the [[German reunification|reunification of Germany]].

in 1998, Alliance 90/The Greens joined a coalition government with the [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|SPD]], forming a [[Red–green alliance|Red-Green alliance]] that would last until 2005. In order to agree to the coalition, Alliance 90/The Greens had 3 priorities: to reduce unemployment, close nuclear-power stations/Germany to not rely on nuclear power, and for citizenship laws to be reformed.<ref name=":0" /> The coalition remained in place following the 2002 election. However, green policies were no longer considered to be a focal point so much, with unemployment growing and other economic issues being more pressing, leading to the rise of the CDU/CSU, and the eventual loss of a majority in parliament.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Carter |first=N. |title=The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2018 |edition=3rd |location=Cambridge |pages=122 |language=English}}</ref>

====Turkey====
Greens and the Left Party of the Future is a left-libertarian and green party in Turkey. It was founded on 25 November 2012 as a merger of the Greens Party and the Equality and Democracy Party.

Prominent members include Murat Belge, left-liberal political author and columnist for ''Taraf''; Kutluğ Ataman, filmmaker and contemporary artist; and Ufuk Uras, former Istanbul deputy and president of the Freedom and Solidarity Party.

The party is one of the participants in the Peoples' Democratic Congress, a political initiative instrumental in founding the Peoples' Democratic Party in 2012.

The Greens, along with feminists, left YSGP en masse in 2016, citing its lack of democratic decision making practices. They and a new generation of activists reestablished the [[Green Party (Turkey)|Green Party]] (Yeşiller) in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://yesiller.org.tr/2020/09/21/greens-in-turkey-launch-green-party/|title=Greens in Turkey Launch Green Party!|first=Yeşiller|last=Partisi|date=September 21, 2020}}</ref>

===North America===
As of the [[2011 Canadian federal election|41st general election]] in Canada, held on May 2, 2011, there was only one federally elected member of the [[Green Party of Canada]] in the [[House of Commons of Canada]], its leader [[Elizabeth May]]. However, at the dissolution of the [[41st Canadian Parliament|41st Parliament]] on August 2, 2015, the [[Green Party of Canada]] held two seats in the House of Commons, the second seat belonging to formerly Independent MP [[Bruce Hyer]] who was elected to the House of Commons as a member of the [[New Democratic Party|NDP]] in 2011. Only May won [[2015 Canadian federal election|re-election]] to the [[42nd Canadian Parliament|42nd parliament]]. [[Mike Morrice]] was elected to the 43rd parliament, returning Greens to two seats. There remains no federal representation by the [[Green Party of the United States]] in the U.S. Congress. Accordingly, in these countries, Green parties focus on [[electoral reform]]. In Mexico, however, the ''[[Ecologist Green Party of Mexico|Partido Verde Ecologista]],'' often abbreviated as PVEM, has 17 [[Chamber of Deputies of Mexico|deputies]] and four [[Senate of Mexico|senators]] in [[Congress of Mexico|Congress]] as a result of the 2006 elections. Nevertheless, some of its political practices such as plead in favor of the death penalty in Mexico, led to the [[European Green Party]]'s withdrawal of recognition of the PVEM as a legitimate green party.

====Canada====
{{See also|Green Party of Canada#Provincial parties|List of Green party leaders in Canada|List of Green politicians who have held office in Canada}}
The first Green parties in Canada (both federal and provincial) were founded in 1983. The strongest provincial Green parties are the [[Green Party of British Columbia]], the [[Green Party of Ontario]], the [[Green Party of New Brunswick]], and the [[Green Party of Prince Edward Island]] which was elected the [[Official Opposition]] in the 2019 election.<ref>[https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/seven-things-to-know-about-the-p-e-i-election-results-1.4392161 "Seven things to know about the P.E.I. election results"]. [[CTV News]], April 23, 2019.</ref> The first ever BC Green MLA was elected in 2013, and in [[2017 British Columbia general election|2017]] they helped the minority [[British Columbia New Democratic Party|NDP]] form government.<ref>[https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-ndp-green-agreement-1.4136539 "B.C. Green Party agrees to support NDP in the legislature"]. [[CBC News]], May 29, 2017.</ref> In 2014 a Green MLA was elected to the New Brunswick legislature, in 2015 a Green MLA was elected to the Prince Edward Island Legislature, and in 2018 [[Mike Schreiner]] became the first Green MPP elected to the Ontario provincial legislature. Federally, the [[Green Party of Canada]] received 6.49% of the popular vote and a record three seats in Parliament during the [[2019 Canadian federal election|2019 federal election]], breaking ground in [[Atlantic Canada]] with the election of [[Jenica Atwin]] as the first federal Green from outside of [[British Columbia]].<ref>[https://globalnews.ca/news/6023150/live-canada-election-results-2019-real-time-results-in-the-federal-election/ "Canada election 2019: Results from the federal election"]. [[Global News]], October 21, 2019.</ref> This is up from one seat ([[By-elections to the 42nd Canadian Parliament#Nanaimo—Ladysmith|later two]]) and 3.91% won in the [[2015 Canadian federal election|2015 federal election]]. Although [[Elizabeth May]] (the leader of the GPC from 2006 to 2019) was the first elected Member of Parliament, the first seat was gained in the [[House of Commons of Canada|House of Commons]] on August 30, 2008, when sitting Independent MP [[Blair Wilson]] joined the party.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/local/article/4545--liberal-mp-blair-wilson-goes-green-giving-the-party-its-first-seat-on-parliament-hill |title=Liberal MP Blair Wilson Goes Green, Giving the Party Its First Seat on Parliament Hill - CityNews |access-date=2010-04-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629145949/http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/local/article/4545--liberal-mp-blair-wilson-goes-green-giving-the-party-its-first-seat-on-parliament-hill |archive-date=2011-06-29 }}</ref> As of September 2020, May continues to sit as a Member of Parliament for [[Saanich-Gulf Islands]] and has exerted a considerable amount of legislative influence on a number of issues ranging from denying unanimous consent for military intervention in Libya, playing a central role in exposing changes to environmental legislation hidden in the omnibus Budget Bill C-38, to introducing a [[private member's bill]] to develop a national strategy on [[Lyme disease]]. [[Mike Morrice]] joined May in Parliament in 2021 representing [[Kitchener Centre (federal electoral district)|Kitchener Centre]] and has been active on disability issues.

In the [[2008 Vancouver municipal election]], Stuart Mackinnon, a member of the Vancouver Green Party, was elected to the Vancouver Parks Board. Since that time former [[Green Party of British Columbia]] leader, and deputy-leader of the federal Green party, [[Adriane Carr]] won the Greens' first seat on Vancouver City Council, in 2011 municipal elections.

====United States====
In the United States, Greens first ran for public office in 1985. Since then, the [[Green Party of the United States]] has claimed electoral victories at the municipal, county and [[U.S. state|state]] levels. The first U.S. Greens to be elected were [[David Conley (politician)|David Conley]] and Frank Koehn in Wisconsin 1986. Each was elected to a position on the County Board of Supervisors in Douglas and Bayfield counties respectively. [[Keiko Bonk]] was first elected in 1992 in Hawaii County, becoming Official Chairwoman in 1995. The first Green Party mayor <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gp.org/elections/Green-Mayors/ |title=Green Party Officeholders 2016 :: Mayors |publisher=Gp.org |access-date=2013-08-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130922175818/http://www.gp.org/elections/Green-Mayors/ |archive-date=2013-09-22 }}</ref> was Kelly Weaverling, elected in [[Cordova, AK]] in 1991.

As of April 2018, 156 Greens held elective office across the US in 19 states. The states with the largest numbers of Green elected officials are California (68), Connecticut (15), and Pennsylvania (15). Titles of offices held include: Alderman, Auditor, Board of Appeals, Board of Finance, Board of Selectmen, Borough Council, Budget Committee, Circuit Court Judge, City Council, Common Council, Community College District Board of Trustees, Community Service Board,  Conservation Congress, Constable, County Board of Supervisors, County Supervisor, Fire Commission, Fire District Board, Inspector of Elections, Judge of Elections, Mayor, Neighborhood Council Board, Park District, Parks and Recreation District Board, Library Board, Planning Board, Public Housing Authority Resident Advisory Board, Public Service District, Rent Stabilization Board, Sanitary District Board, School Board, Soil and Water Conservation Board, State Representative, Town Council, Transit District Board, Village Trustee, Water District Board, and Zoning Board of Appeals.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.gp.org/officeholders|title=Officeholders|website=www.gp.org}}</ref> As of October 2016, 100 Greens held elected office across the US.<ref name="auto"/> The first US Green elected to a state legislature was [[Audie Bock]] in 1999, to the [[California State Assembly]], followed by [[John Eder]] to the [[Maine House of Representatives]] in 2002 and 2004 and [[Richard Carroll (politician)|Richard Carroll]] to the [[Arkansas House of Representatives]] in 2008. While in office in 2003 in the [[New Jersey General Assembly]], incumbent [[Matt Ahearn]] made a [[Party switching in the United States|party switch]] to Green for the remainder of his term.

The Green Party has contested seven presidential elections: in 1996 and 2000 with [[Ralph Nader]] for president and [[Winona LaDuke]] as vice president, in 2004 with [[David Cobb (activist)|David Cobb]] for president and [[Pat LaMarche]] for vice president, and in 2008 with [[Cynthia McKinney]] for president and [[Rosa Clemente]] for vice president. In 2000, Nader received more votes for president than any Green Party candidate before or since. [[Jill Stein]] ran for president on the Green ticket in 2012, 2016 and 2024; the vice-presidential candidates were [[Cheri Honkala]] in 2012, [[Ajamu Baraka]] in 2016 and [[Butch Ware]] in 2024. Stein, who received over one million votes in the 2016 race, led unsuccessful attempts toward [[2016 United States presidential election recounts|2016 election recounts]] in three states: Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. In 2020, [[Howie Hawkins]], a founder of the Green Party, was the party's presidential nominee.

===South America===

====Brazil====
The Brazilian [[Green Party (Brazil)|Green Party]] was constituted after the military dictatorship period and, like other Green Parties around the world, is committed to establishing a set of policies on ensuring social-equity and sustainable development. One of the party's founding members was the journalist and former anti-dictatorship revolutionary Fernando Gabeira, Alfredo Sirkis and Carlos Minc. Among the main items on the Green Party's agenda are federalism, environmentalism, human rights, a form of direct democracy, parliamentarism, welfare, civil liberties, pacifism and marijuana legalization under specific conditions.

Green Party's candidate [[Marina Silva]] won 19.33% of the vote in the first round of the [[2010 Brazilian presidential election]] (more than any other third party), taking enough votes from [[Dilma Rousseff]] of the incumbent [[Workers' Party (Brazil)|PT]] to prevent her from achieving the majority of the vote needed to avoid a second round. Success in the legislature amounted to winning 2 more seats for a total of 15 in the Chamber of Deputies and the loss of their only senate seat.

Marina Silva left the party the following year.

In the [[2014 Brazilian general election|2014 presidential election]] the Green Party's candidate [[Eduardo Jorge]] received 0,61% of the vote. He garnered attention for campaigning on a progressive platform supporting policies such as cannabis legalization and the decriminalization of abortion. Because of his perceived eccentricity and spontaneity while participating in the televised debates, Jorge became the subject of several memes on the internet. The party elected 6 federal deputies and 1 senator.

In 2016, the Greens in Congress voted in favour of the [[impeachment of Dilma Rousseff]]. The party later went on to support president Michel Temer who succeeded her.

For the [[2018 Brazilian general election|2018 presidential election]] the party formed the coalition ''United to transform Brazil'' with the [[Sustainability Network|Sustainability Network (REDE)]], in support of the candidacy of Marina Silva in her third run for the presidency. Eduardo Jorge was chosen as her running mate. Despite faring well in the initial polls, Silva ultimately received 1% of the vote. The party elected 4 federal deputies.

====Colombia====
In the 1990s, the [[Oxygen Green Party]] was created under the leadership of [[Ingrid Betancourt]] but dissolved after her infamous kidnapping. Later, the Visionaries Party was created by  [[Antanas Mockus]] whose ideals earned him the Bogotá Mayoral Office twice.
In the [[2010 Colombian presidential election]] a green party has been created under the name [[Green Party (Colombia)|Colombian Green Party]], with former [[Bogotá]] mayor Antanas Mockus being the leader.