Our mission is to light the way with fiscal sanity and commonsense government.

The Conservative Party of New York State was formed in 1962, the “high tide” of liberalism, to provide voters with a real, philosophical alternative to the candidates provided by the major parties. Liberalism was the precursor to the scourge of “progressivism” now besetting the Country. It is our mission to match our previous successes against liberalism, so as to prevent progressives from obliterating the institutions, spirit, and beliefs that make our Country a beacon to the world.

Since then, the party has experienced great successes, including:

• the election for United States Senator in 1970, when James L. Buckley was elected on the Conservative line

• in the watershed elections of 1994, we provided crucial votes for George Pataki for Governor, Dennis Vacco for Attorney General, and many other victorious candidates throughout the state.

• in 2009, Doug Hoffman, running on our line alone, garnered 45.98% of the vote, the highest for a minor party in a U.S. House race since 1949. Just as important have been our stands on issues, helping to defeat wasteful spending, bad legislation and resisting the leftward drift of state politics.

The Monroe County Conservative Party bases its candidate endorsements on qualifications and philosophy. We can pick and choose among enrolled Conservatives, Republicans, and Democrats. The Conservative Party selects the “very best” and conservatively oriented candidates. In a local (Town Supervisors, etc.) year, we will endorse up to 125 candidates. We are often the “margin of victory”. Our endorsement is like a “double-edged sword” in that the Conservative vote seems to be consistent regardless of whom we endorse. When we support one candidate, we in effect also take that number of votes away from his or her opponent. There are approximately 8,000 enrolled Conservatives in Monroe County. Traditionally, we receive approximately two to three times the number of votes on our ballot line Row C as there are registered Conservatives in the election unit.

The Monroe County Conservative Party is an active, well-organized, grassroots, united, aggressive, philosophically-oriented political Party. Our Party’s keyword is LOYALTY (to our philosophy and to our endorsed candidates). We are playing a constructive pivotal role in the Monroe County community. The Conservative Party intends to continue to play such a role.