2016 Green Party presidential primaries were a series of primaries , caucuses and state conventions in which voters elected delegates to represent a candidate for the Green Party 's nominee for President of the United States at the 2016 Green National Convention . The primaries , held in numerous states on various dates from January to July 2016 , featured elections publicly funded and held as an alternative ballot , concurrent with the Democratic and Republican primaries , and elections privately funded by the Green Party , held non-concurrently with the major party primaries . Over 400 delegates to the Green National Convention were elected in these primaries , with a candidate needing a simple majority of these delegates to become the party 's nominee for president
2016 Green National Convention
2016 Green National Convention
2016 Green Party presidential primaries