Statewide parties

Parties with a * indicate automatic ballot access

Qualified New York Parties

In New York State, to qualify for automatic ballot access, a party must have received at least 50,000 votes in the previous gubernatorial election. They need not run their own candidate, they can nominate a different party's nominee, and if 50,000 voters vote for that candidate on their party...

 between the 2011 and 2014 elections.

• Communist Party
  Communist Party USA
  The Communist Party USA is a Marxist political party in the United States, established in 1919. It has a long, complex history that is closely related to the histories of similar communist parties worldwide and the U.S. labor movement....
  
  
• Conservative Party*
• Constitution Party
  Constitution Party (United States)
  The Constitution Party is a paleoconservative political party in the United States. It was founded as the U.S. Taxpayers' Party by Howard Philips in 1991. Phillips was the party's candidate in the 1992, 1996 and 2000 presidential elections...
  
  
• Democratic Party
  New York State Democratic Committee
  The New York State Democratic Committee runs the local branch of the United States Democratic Party in the state of New York. Its headquarters are in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, and it has an office in Albany.-List of chairpersons:...
  
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• New York Federalist Party*

• Freedom Party
  Freedom Party of New York
  The Freedom Party of New York is a name given to two separate political parties that existed only in the state of New York. The first, created by allies of would-be Governor George Pataki, gained ballot access in the 1994 gubernatorial election under the name "Tax Cut Now Party," and gained the...
  
   (1994-1998, 2010-present, two ideologically opposite entities)
• Green Party
  Green Party of New York
  The Green Party of New York is a ballot-qualified political party in New York, which was founded in 1992. It is a part of the national Green Party movement...
  
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• Independence Party
  Independence Party of New York
  The Independence Party is an affiliate in the U.S. state of New York of the Independence Party of America. The party was founded in 1991 by Dr. Gordon Black, Tom Golisano, and Laureen Oliver from Rochester, New York, and acquired ballot status in 1994...
  
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• Liberal Party
  Liberal Party of New York
  The Liberal Party of New York is a minor American political party that has been active only in the state of New York. Its platform supports a standard set of social liberal policies: it supports right to abortion, increased spending on education, and universal health care.As of 2007, the Liberal...
  
  
• Libertarian Party
  Libertarian Party of New York
  The Libertarian Party of New York is a political party in the United States active in the state of New York. It is the recognized affiliate of the national Libertarian Party....
  
  
• Marijuana Reform Party
  Marijuana Reform Party
  The Marijuana Reform Party is a progressive minor political party in the U.S. state of New York dedicated to the legalization of cannabis...
  
   (1998-2002)
• Natural Law Party
  United States Natural Law Party
  The Natural Law Party was a United States political party affiliated with the international Natural Law Party. It was founded in 1992 and mostly dissolved in 2004...
  
    (1992-2004)
• New Party  (1992-1998)
• Reform Party of New York State
  Reform Party of New York State
  The Reform Party of New York State is the state party organization for New York State of the Reform Party of the United States of America.-Reform Party USA Logo:...
  
   (Reorganized 2010)
• New York State Right to Life Party
  New York State Right to Life Party
  The New York State Right to Life Party was founded to oppose the legalization of abortion in New York in 1970. The party first made the state ballot in the 1978 gubernatorial election, where its candidate Mary Jane Tobin won 130,000 votes...
  
  
• Republican Party
  New York Republican State Committee
  The New York Republican State Committee is the affiliate of the United States Republican Party in New York, headquartered in Albany.-History:...
  
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• Rent Is Too Damn High Party
  Rent Is Too Damn High Party
  The Rent Is Too Damn High Party is a political party in New York that has nominated candidates for mayor of New York City in 2005 and 2009 and for governor and senator in 2010. Jimmy McMillan was the mayoral candidate both times and a candidate for governor. In 2005, he received more than 4,000...
  
  
• Save Jobs Party (2004-2006)
• Socialist Party
  Socialist Party of New York
  The Socialist Party of New York is the state chapter of the Socialist Party of the United States of America in New York.The current SPUSA was organized by members of the Debs caucus of Socialist Party of America . At the SPA's 1972 National Convention, which was held in Manhattan, the SPA changed...
  
  
• Taxpayers/Federalist Party
  Taxpayers Party of New York
  The Taxpayers Party of New York State was an American political party active in the state of New York. It was not part of any nationwide party, nor is it affiliated with the U.S. Taxpayers' Party , which predates it by 18 years, or the Tax Revolt Party active in Nassau County...
  
   (2010-2011)
• Working Families Party
  Working Families Party
  The Working Families Party is a minor political party in the United States founded in New York in 1998. There are "sister" parties to the New York WFP in Connecticut, Massachusetts, South Carolina, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Oregon, but there is as yet no national WFP...
  
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Regional parties

• Tax Revolt Party
  Tax revolt party
  The Tax Revolt Party is a minor political party in the United States founded in Nassau County, New York in 2009. It is unrelated to the similarly named Taxpayers Party of New York founded by Carl Paladino in 2010.-Background:...
  
   (Nassau County)
• Tea Party (Western New York)

See also

• Political party strength in New York
  Political Party Strength in New York
  The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of New York:*Governor*Lieutenant Governor*Secretary of State*Attorney General*State Comptroller*TreasurerThe table also indicates the historical party composition in the:...
  
  
• Politics of New York
  Politics of New York
  The Politics of New York State tend to be more liberal than in most of the United States, with in recent decades a solid majority of Democratic voters, concentrated in New York City and some of its suburbs, and in the cities of Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany...
  
  
• List of political parties