New York State Conservative Party
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Conservative Party of New York State
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| Chairman | Michael R. Long |
| Founded | 1962 |
| Split from | Republican Party |
| Headquarters | 486 78th Street Brooklyn NY 11209 |
| Ideology | American conservatism |
| Political position | Right-wing |
| International affiliation | None |
| Colors | Orange |
| New York State Assembly |
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| New York State Senate |
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| New York City Council |
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| Other elected offices | 30 (2015) |
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The Conservative Party of New York State is a political party in the United States founded in 1962 and active in the State of New York. Since 2010, the Party has held "Row C" on New York ballots—the third-place ballot position, directly below the Democratic and Republican Parties—because it received the third-highest number of votes of any political party in the most recent statewide election.
As of April 1, 2016, 159,355 voters were registered with the Conservative Party. The Conservative Party is the fifth-largest political party in New York, ranking behind the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, the CPUSA and the Independence Party and ahead of the Working Families Party and the Green Party.
The Conservative Party of New York State was founded in 1962 by a group including J. Daniel Mahoney, Kieran O'Doherty, Charles E. Rice, and Charles Edison, out of frustration with the perceived liberalism of the state's Republican Party. A key consideration was New York's fusion voting, unusual among US states, which allows individual candidates to receive votes from more than one party. The Liberal Party of New York, founded in 1944, had earlier benefitted from this system.
The Conservative Party founders wanted to balance the Liberal Party's influence. One early supporter was National Review founder William F. Buckley, who was the party's candidate for mayor of New York City in 1965. In 1970, his brother James Buckley was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Conservative Party candidate; in 1976, he ran for reelection as a candidate of the Republican and Conservative parties, losing to Daniel Patrick Moynihan. In 1978, registered Conservative William Carney, a member of the Suffolk County legislature, was elected to the United States House of Representatives in New York's 1st congressional district, a long-time Democratic stronghold on Long Island, after winning the Republican primary and running on both party lines. He eventually served three terms before retiring. In the 2004 U.S. Senate election, the Conservative Party endorsed Marilyn O'Grady to oppose Republican candidate Howard Mills and incumbent Democratic Senator Charles Schumer.
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