On March 30, U.S. District Court Judge Brian Morris approved the settlement in Green Party of Montana v Jacobson, 6:18cv-87, that puts the party on the ballot for 2022. There are no partisan statewide offices up in Montana this year, and filing for the Green Party June primary has already closed. But before the filing deadline, two candidates filed to run for the State House, so presumably they will be on the ballot this year.

It isn’t clear if the party will also be on the ballot in 2024. The law says if a party polls 5% of the winning gubernatorial candidate’s vote for any statewide office, at either of the last two elections, it is a qualified party. But there are no statewide offices on the ballot in 2022, so there is no method for the Green Party to meet the vote test in 2022. In some states, when there is no statewide office up, all parties automatically have their qualified status extended. The issue has never arisen in Montana.