The New Jersey Conservative Party, formerly abbreviated as the NJCP, now as CP-NJ, is a conservative political party in New Jersey, United States. Ideology The NJCP advocates for low taxes, a balanced budget and job growth, the right to own private property, limiting welfare to individuals, ending government-supported health care, and limiting foreign aid. It favors states' rights, a strong military, anti-immigration laws, and term limits for congressmen. It supports a national holiday for Election Day. Membership According to the New Jersey Division of Elections (part of the New Jersey Department of State), there were 154 registered Conservative Party members statewide on October 20, 2008. Membership in the party grew five-fold in 2015-2016; as of March 2016, there were 814 registered members, and by November 2016, there were 3,516. Membership grew again in 2018; in February there were 7,371 registered voters, and as of July 2018, there were 8,447. As of February 2019, there are 10,610 registered members. History 1963 New Jersey elections In the 1963 election for New Jersey Assembly a number of candidates ran as "Conservative" in Essex and Bergen counties as part of a nationwide split in the Republican party which saw northeastern states, like New Jersey, have their state Republican party be dominated by the party's liberal faction. These Conservative candidates opposed the social liberal policies of the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration in favor of the more social conservative school of though emerging with Senator Barry Goldwater. This party split would end following the 1964 United States presidential election and its 1964 Republican National Convention which effectively saw the Goldwater wing of the party dominate. These candidates have no relation to the party founded in 1992, but where listed under the same name on the ballot. 1992 party The New Jersey Conservative Party was created in 1992 by Tom Blomquist, who had run as candidate for Governor of New Jersey in the 1989 as a Republican getting 0.98% of the vote in the primary, and in 1993 gubernatorial elections as a Conservative. The NJCP received the endorsement of United We Stand America, H. Ross Perot's citizen action organization in 1995. In 1995, the party ran approximately 60 candidates for the New Jersey General Assembly, none of whom won. the party broke the record for the most third party candidates during one election in the history of New Jersey. This helped lead the NJCP to receiving 117,219