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Reform Party of New York State | |
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Chairperson | Bill Merrell |
Founded | 2000 |
Headquarters | Bohemia, New York |
Ideology | Populism Radical centrism Electoral reform |
National affiliation | Reform Party of the United States of America |
New York State Assembly | 0 / 150 |
New York State Senate | 0 / 63 |
New York City Council | 0 / 51 |
Other elected offices | 5 (as of 2017)[1] |
Website | |
reformpartyny | |
The Reform Party of New York State was the New York branch of the Reform Party of the United States of America. The branch was founded in 2000 after the Independence Party of New York, which had been affiliated with the national Reform Party from 1994 to 2000, severed ties with the national party.
A statewide ballot-access party bearing the Reform Party name, which had a sometimes contentious relationship with the national party, existed from 2015 to 2018. It was originally named the Stop Common Core party, referring to the common core educational curriculum. Aside from this period, the party has had limited operations in the state, never qualifying for ballot access in its own right and mainly running candidates in multiple number of local elections including that of Mayor of New York City and many state legislators. Bill Merrell is the chair of the party.