The Maryland Green Party is proud of the performance of its 2024 candidates and thanks the candidates and all their volunteers for their hard work and positive campaigns. In partisan races, Renaud Brown won nearly 10% of the vote in his campaign for Baltimore City Council District 14. Nancy Wallace won nearly 2.5% of the vote in her campaign for U.S. House of Representatives, District 8.

The Maryland Green Party is also proud of the Greens involved in the campaign to defeat “Question H” in Baltimore City. Question H was a charter amendment bankrolled by right-wing media mogul David Smith, Executive Chairman of Sinclair Broadcasting and the owner of the Baltimore Sun. The amendment, if passed, would have slashed the Baltimore City Council nearly in half.

The Maryland Green Party endorsed the “No on H” campaign led by the ballot issue committee Baltimore for Democracy. BFD was chaired by Andy Ellis, Baltimore Green Party member and candidate for the Green Party’s 2026 Gubernatorial nomination. Green Party members worked as part of the Baltimore for Democracy coalition of elected officials, labor unions, progressive faith and grassroots advocacy organizations, and small political parties. Baltimore Green Party Steering Committee member Andrew Eneim and Ujima People’s Progress Party member Nnamdi Lumumba were also members of the BFD core organizing team.

The amendment was defeated with nearly 100,000 votes against – only the second time a Baltimore City charter amendment has been defeated in the last 25 years. The Green Party feels that this victory demonstrates the power of coalition building that Greens are able to lead and the wide-reaching impacts it can have.

The Green Party is pleased that Jill Stein was the leading minor party presidential candidate in Maryland, winning over 1% of the total vote for national office for the third time in the Maryland Green Party's history.

As expected, Maryland's presidential contest was immediately called for Vice President Kamala Harris. Despite repeated accusations of the Green Party potentially "spoiling" the election, not a single state race of any importance was negatively impacted by the presence of the Green Party on the ballot. The only consequences of the Green Party's campaigns were positive – more choices on ballots, greater voter turnout, and more voices speaking out in support of people suffering from war, occupation, and environmental destruction. We know that we must continue to work to build a party that can use its ballot access and participation in future elections to change outcomes in line with our values.

The Maryland Green Party is disgusted by the racism, sexism, and generalized hatred deployed by Donald Trump in his first term as president and in his 2020 and 2024 campaigns. Another Trump term will certainly be divisive and destructive, and will put the lives and safety of many marginalized people at risk. We call on the Democratic Party to do whatever it must in Congress to stymie the MAGA agenda and prevent the worst possible outcomes of another Trump administration, and all Americans to do what they can to protect their communities from the impacts of upcoming conservative projects.   

The Maryland Green Party will continue its twenty-five year mission of organizing local chapters and state political infrastructure, training and supporting future candidates, and doing the long-term work of realigning the American political system toward a multi-party democracy in which the Green Party and other parties participate equally in elections and the legislative process.

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