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| Campaign | U.S. presidential election, 2016 |
| Candidate | Jill Stein Former member of the Lexington Town Meeting from the 2nd district (2005–2011) Ajamu Baraka Human rights activist Howie Hawkins (Minnesota)[1] |
| Affiliation | Green Party |
| Status | Announced: June 22, 2015 Presumptive nominee: June 15, 2016[2] Official nominee: August 6, 2016[3] Lost election: November 8, 2016 |
| Headquarters | Brooklyn, New York |
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| Receipts | US$11,499,548.55[4] (2016-09-31[5]) |
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Jill Stein, a physician from Massachusetts, announced her entry into the 2016 United States presidential election on June 22, 2015. Stein had been the Green Party's presidential nominee in 2012, in which she received 469,627 votes. [6] In the 2016 election, she once again secured the Green Party nomination and lost in the general election. She received 1.07% of the popular vote and no electoral college delegates.[7]
She formally announced her second presidential bid on Democracy Now! on June 22, 2015.[8]
On June 15, 2016, she reached the necessary number of delegates for the presumptive Green nomination.[2] On August 1, 2016, Stein announced that she had selected international human rights activist Ajamu Baraka as her running mate.[9]
Stein officially received the Green Party presidential nomination on August 6, 2016, at the party's nominating convention in Houston, Texas.[3]
- ^ Pugmire, Tim (August 22, 2016). "MN ballot will show wrong Green Party veep candidate". Minnesota Public Radio. Retrieved August 22, 2016.
- ^ a b "Jill Stein secures green nomination". Jill2016.com. Retrieved 2016-12-31.
- ^ a b Taylor, Jessica (7 August 2016). "Green Party Officially Nominates Jill Stein : NPR". NPR.org. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
- ^ "STEIN, JILL - Candidate overview".
- ^ "Candidate (P20003984) Summary Reports – 2016 Cycle". Federal Election Commission. Retrieved October 26, 2016.
- ^ "FEDERAL ELECTIONS 2012 Election Results for the U.S. President, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives" (PDF). FEC.gov. July 2013. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ "Jill Stein Selects Human Rights Activist Ajamu Baraka as Vice-Presidential Running Mate". Jill2016.com. Retrieved 2016-08-02.