Jill Stein 2016 presidential campaign
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. 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.
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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) |
| Affiliation | Green Party |
| Status | Announced: June 22, 2015 Presumptive nominee: June 15, 2016 Official nominee: August 6, 2016 Lost election: November 8, 2016 |
| Headquarters | Brooklyn, New York |
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| Receipts | US$11,499,548.55 (2016-09-31) |
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She formally announced her second presidential bid on Democracy Now! on June 22, 2015.
On June 15, 2016, she reached the necessary number of delegates for the presumptive Green nomination. On August 1, 2016, Stein announced that she had selected international human rights activist Ajamu Baraka as her running mate.
Stein officially received the Green Party presidential nomination on August 6, 2016, at the party's nominating convention in Houston, Texas.