GPVA focuses on local elections for offices such as the Virginia House of Delegates, town council, Board of Supervisors, and Soil & Water Conservation District Board of Directors. The party earned its first electoral victories in November 1997 when Phil Welch was elected to the Buena Vista Soil & Water Conservation District board and Stephanie Porras was elected to the Lexington Soil & Conservation District Board. Since that time, several other GPVA members have run for office in both partisan and non-partisan races, with some success at the town council and SWCD level. One of the most notable campaigns for office by a GPVA candidate in a partisan election have been Josh Ruebner's 2006, 2007 and 2008 candidacies for the Arlington County Board of Supervisors. Ruebner received extensive local media coverage for both campaigns. In 2007, he received votes from 10.3% of Arlingtonians who came to the polls. Reeder received a vote share of 23.3% for the Arlington County Board in the 2008 elections. His vote count was 21,503, a figure which represents a significant increase of 10% from the 2007 elections. Reeder achieved this by running on a platform to promote affordable housing, increase recycling opportunities, and trim government waste. Furthermore, a Green Party-backed referendum to establish a housing authority, with the aim of increasing the County's available tools to address an ever-deepening affordable housing crisis, won 33% of the votes despite the opposition of both Democratic and Republican parties. In 2015, Jeff Staples ran for Virginia House of Delegates in the 81st District against Republican Barry Knight. He won 4 districts and received a total of 30.3% of the vote. In 2016, Montigue Magruder and Rebecca Keel ran in the Richmond citywide elections and gathered nearly 12% of the votes in their respective districts. Kristen Lawson won the seat to represent Richmond's 4th district with 4,762 votes, 36.9% of the total.
Independent Greens split
When the state meeting of the Green Party of Virginia refused to recognize Carey Campbell's installation as chair of the Arlington local of the GPVA and overturned Campbell's election to chair of the chapter and the election of the other officers due to clear violations of party bylaws. Campbell and others participating in the vote were not members of the local party and at least two people who voted were not party members. Campbell and several others, unhappy with this expected decision, formed the Independent Greens of Virginia and attempted to affiliate with the state party. When this affiliation was denied, Campbell and Joe Oddo turned the Independent Greens of Virginia into a new statewide party.
Presidential elections
Current officeholders
Kathleen Harrigan, Fredericksburg Soil & Water Conservation District Board of Directors
Daniel Metraux, Staunton Soil & Water Conservation District Board of Directors
Chris Simmons, Loudoun Soil & Water Conservation District Board of Directors
Buck Richards, Warren County Soil & Water Conservation District Board of Directors
