:Green Party of Hawaii

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{{Infobox political party

| name = Green Party of Hawai'i

| native_name = ʻAoʻao ʻōmaʻomaʻo o Hawaiʻi

| logo = Green Party of Hawaii logo.png

| chairperson = Sylvia Litchfield
Budd Dickinson

| colors = Green

| headquarters = Honolulu

| ideology = Green politics

| position = Left-wing

| national = Green Party of the United States

| seats1_title = Seats in the U.S. Senate

| seats1 = {{Composition bar|0|2|hex={{party color|Green Party (United States)}}}}

| seats2_title = Seats in the U.S. House

| seats2 = {{Composition bar|0|2|hex={{party color|Green Party (United States)}}}}

| seats3_title = Hawaii Senate

| seats3 = {{Composition bar|0|25|hex={{party color|Green Party of the United States}}}}

| seats4_title = Hawaii House of Representatives

| seats4 = {{Composition bar|0|51|hex={{party color|Green Party of the United States}}}}

| seats5_title = Other elected officials

| seats5 = 0 {{as of|2024|02|alt=(February 2024)}}{{cite web|url=https://www.gpelections.org/greens-in-office/ |title=Greens in Office|website=Green Party of the United States|access-date=June 2, 2024}}.

| website = [http://www.greenpartyofhawaii.org/ Official website]

| country = the United States

| colorcode = {{party color|Green Party (United States)}}

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The Green Party of Hawai'i (GPH) ({{langx|haw|ʻAoʻao ʻōmaʻomaʻo o Hawaiʻi}}) is the green party organization in the state of Hawaii, and an affiliate organization of the Green Party of the United States.

The party's focus includes environmental issues, community-based economics, personal responsibility, diversity, social justice, and non-violence.{{cite web | last = Stewart | first = Colin M. | title = Green Party Certified | publisher = Hawaii Tribune-Herald | date = April 22, 2012 | url = http://hawaiitribune-herald.com/sections/news/local-news/green-party-certified.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160128164948/http://hawaiitribune-herald.com/sections/news/local-news/green-party-certified.html|archive-date=January 28, 2016}}

History

The Hawaii Green Party first qualified for the ballot in May 1992, one of the earliest state Green Parties to do so.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}}

In November 1992, Keiko Bonk was elected to a seat on the Hawaii County (Big Island) County Council, the first Green to be elected in a partisan race in the United States. She was re-elected in 1994, but stepped down to run unsuccessfully for Island Mayor in 1996.

In November 1998, Julie Jacobson was elected to Bonk's old seat on the Big Island, which she held upon re-election in 2000. Her campaign for election was managed by Bonk.{{cite news |date=Winter 1999 |title=Julie Jacobson Wins County Council Seat, Waves "Aloha" to Incumbent Republican |work=Green Pages |url=https://greenpagesnews.org/julie-jacobson-wins-county-council-seat-waves-aloha-to-incumbent-republican/ |accessdate=8 October 2023}} When she decided not to run in 2002, her husband Bob Jacobson ran and was elected, then re-elected again in 2004 and 2006. Jacobson lost in 2008. No Green Party members have since held elected office in Hawaii.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}}

In 2012, the Green Party of Hawaii was certified to be included on Hawaii partisan election ballots in all races through 2020. The party sued the Chief Election Officer Scott Nago as the state ran out of ballots on election day.{{cite web|url=http://www.govtech.com/security/Hawaii-Election-Officials-Boost-Vigilance.html|title=Hawaii Election Officials Boost Vigilance|last=Timothy|first=Hurley|date=3 November 2016|publisher=Honolulu Star-Advertiser|language=en|access-date=4 January 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://hawaiitribune-herald.com/sections/news/local-news/big-island%E2%80%99s-top-10-stories-2012.html|title=The Big Island's top 10 stories of 2012|date=30 December 2012|publisher=Hawaii Tribune-Herland|language=en|access-date=4 January 2017}} A decision in the lawsuit was rendered by the Supreme Court of Hawaii on 19 July 2016.{{cite web|url=http://law.justia.com/cases/hawaii/supreme-court/2016/scwc-14-0001313-0.html|title=Green Party of Hawaii v. Nago|date=19 July 2016|publisher=JUSTIA|language=en|access-date=4 January 2017}}