to have had a Green Party majority in their town councils. Twin Ridges Elementary in Nevada County, California held the first Green Party majority school board in the United States. On September 21, 2017, Ralph Chapman, a member of the Maine House of Representatives, switched his party registration from unaffiliated to Green, providing the Green Party with their first state-level representative since 2014. Henry John Bear became a member of the Green Party in the same year as Chapman, giving the Maine Green Independent Party and GPUS its second currently-serving state representative, though Bear is a nonvoting tribal member of the Maine House of Representatives. Though several Green congressional candidates have topped 20%, no nominee of the Green Party has been elected to office in the federal government. In 2016, Mark Salazar set a new record for a Green Party nominee for Congress. Running in the Arizona 8th district against incumbent Republican Congressman Trent Franks, Salazar received 93,954 votes or 31.43%. Legislative caucuses With exception to state legislatures and major city councils, all other legislative bodies included in the following chronological table had/have more than two affiliated members simultaneously serving in office. List of national conventions and annual meetings The Green National Convention is scheduled in presidential election years and the Annual National Meeting is scheduled in other years. The Green National Committee conducts business online between these in-person meetings. 1996 – Los Angeles, California 2000 – Denver, Colorado 2001 – Santa Barbara, California 2002 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2003 – Washington, D.C. 2004 – Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2005 – Tulsa, Oklahoma 2006 – Tucson, Arizona 2007 – Reading, Pennsylvania 2008 – Chicago, Illinois 2009 – Durham, North Carolina 2010 – Detroit, Michigan 2011 – Alfred, New York 2012 – Baltimore, Maryland 2013 – Iowa City, Iowa 2014 – Saint Paul, Minnesota 2015 – St. Louis, Missouri 2016 – Houston, Texas 2017 – Newark, New Jersey 2018 – Salt Lake City, Utah 2019 – Salem, Massachusetts 2020 – Virtual Online (originally planned for Detroit, Michigan prior to COVID-19 pandemic)'' Presidential ballot access Electoral results Presidential elections Congress House of Representatives Senate Best results in major races Fundraising and position on Super PACs In the early decades of Green organizing in the United States, the prevailing American system of money-dominated elections was universally rejected by Greens, so that some Greens were reluctant to have Greens participate in the election system at all because