The national Green Party has released a summary of how candidates affiliated with state Green organizations performed during the 2025 election cycle, including updated totals from the November 4 general election and outcomes from races held earlier in the year.
Updated GPUS Elections Database figures shared this week by the national organization show that Green-affiliated candidates ran in 110 races during the 2025 election cycle, primarily in local contests. Of that total, the party reports that at least 56 candidates ran in the November 4 general election, including five for partisan state and federal office and 51 in local races.
Independent Political Report previously reported that at the start of November, the party’s database cataloged 42 Green candidates. Under the database’s definition, a “Green candidate” is an individual who is a member of their state Green Party and not affiliated with any other political party. Those candidates were seeking 49 positions, with some running for multiple spots.
Immediately following the election, the party updated its database to include 48 total individual candidates. Of those, it initially identified 14 winners securing 16 positions. This final update confirmed several additional victories, bringing the total to 20 wins in the November 4 election, all in local races. This included nine of the 11 Green incumbents who were seeking reelection.
“Among the 20 Greens elected on November 4th were for mayor (1), city council (3), school board (2), municipal judge (1), constable (1), taxing district board (1), board of assessment appeals (2), zoning board of appeals alternate (2), judge of elections (4) and inspector of elections (3),” the report reads. “Fifteen of the victories came in local partisan races in CT, NY and PA, where unlike much of the country, most local offices are partisan.”
The party also provided details from earlier in the 2025 cycle, confirming that an additional 52 Green candidates ran entirely in local races. Of that group, 37 won their contests, bringing the party to a total of 57 wins heading into the new year. The data also shows that 20 of those candidates were incumbents, with 18 winning reelection.
“This follows a pattern of local election success where Greens won 58 out of 100 (58%) local races in 2024 and 53 out of 92 (57.6%) in 2023; with 30/35 (85.7%) of Green incumbents re-elected in 2024 and 22/25 (88%) in 2023.”
The party reports that, as of November 2025, at least 159 Green Party members hold elected office across 22 states, with more than a quarter serving on city and town councils. This total is slightly lower than Independent Political Report’s earlier estimate of 165. The party also reports 1,664 electoral victories since 1985, which the database treats as the beginning of the modern Green electoral movement in the United States.
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