From the creation of the District Council in 1975 until 1999, the party always had one of the at-large seats, first occupied by Hobson and then by Hilda Mason.

In 1998, a Green Party was founded in D.C. Their candidate for Shadow Representative, Mike Livingston, ran that year.

He received 2,000 more votes than necessary for the party to qualify for continued ballot access.

[8] In a 2016 district-wide plebiscite, D.C. residents voted in favor of statehood.

The party criticized the lack of involvement of regular citizens in the process.