In the November 2019 election the NJ Libertarian Party will be running candidates under the Libertarian Party banner. The following candidates have been nominated to run for office under the Libertarian banner.

• NJ State Assembly 37th District - Claudio Belusic
• Ocean County Freeholder - Dan Valentine
• Bound Brook Town Council - Tom Fitzpatrick
• Bridgewater Mayor - Gregg Mele
• Cherry Hill Town Council - Rich Bowen

Good luck to all! Please provide whatever support you can to our candidates!

In the November 2020 election the NJ Libertarian Party will be running candidates under the Libertarian Party banner. The following candidates have been nominated to run for office under the Libertarian banner.

• US Senate - Gregg Mele
• US House District 2 - Jesse Ehrnstrom
• US House District 4 - Mike Rufo runrufo2020.com
• US House District 7 - Kevin McCormick
• US House District 8 - Dan Delaney
• US House District 11 - Jeff Hetrick
• Ocean County Freeholder - Dan Valentine
• Matt Kaliss - Barrington Town Council
• Vineland Town Council - Joe Harris (pending verification)

Petitions are available for download here. More candidates are in the works. Good luck to all! Please provide whatever support you can to our candidates! Federal candidates can be supported via our Federal Fund, other candidates can be supported via our State Fund.

If you are interested in joining our candidates on the ballot contact the state board and fill out a questionnaire.

In 2001, an appeals court ruled that New Jersey's practice of not allowing anyone to register to vote as anything other than Democrat, Republican, or Independent was unconstitutional. This was the result of a lawsuit brought by a coalition of political parties, including the NJ Libertarian Party.

Since then the number of registered libertarians has been steadily growing. The 2018 numbers show 11,040 registered Libertarians. This is a 32.9% growth from the prior year. This year we have grown once again to 8,309 registered Libertarians. We have 4.8 times as many registered libertarians now than we did 5 years ago,

It has been a very long time since anyone other than a Democrat or Republican was elected to Congress from New Jersey. In fact, it last happened 160 years ago! In 1858, Garnett B. Adrain, who had been elected in the 3^rd District as a Democrat in 1856, ran as an Anti-Lecompton Democrat. Jetur R. Riggs ran with the same party identification and was elected in the 4^th District. A major issue that year was the admission of Kansas territory to the union as a state. Congress needed to ratify the new constitution of the proposed state. One of the proposed constitutions, the Lecompton Constitution had these provisions in it concerning slavery:

ARTICLE VII.- SLAVERY.

The NJ Libertarian Party Nominates Tosone for Congress in NJ-5

Congressional Candidate Jim Tosone with US Senate Candidate Murray Sabrin

Township of Washington, NJ, March 27, 2017 – Jim Tosone received the Libertarian Party’s nomination at the New Jersey LP Convention on March 24th, as their candidate for House of Representatives in New Jersey’s 5th congressional district.

Tosone is a lifelong resident of New Jersey. His wife and he have lived in Township of Washington, Bergen County, for 30 years. They have one daughter.

Tosone had a thirty-year career at a Fortune 50 healthcare company as a Director of Business Technology. He now consults with leading organizations to help them enhance their innovation, collaboration, and communication skills. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Mathematics and Technology Management from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ.

In the November 2018 election the NJ Libertarian Party will be running candidates under the Libertarian Party banner. The following candidates have been nominated to run for office under the Libertarian banner.

• US Senate - Murray Sabrin
• US Congress 1st District - Robert Shapiro
• US Congress 2nd District - John Ordille
• US Congress 4th District  - Michael Rufo
• US Congress 5th District - Jim Tosone

In the November 2017 election the NJ Libertarian Party will be running candidates under the Libertarian Party banner. The following candidates have been nominated to run for office under the Libertarian banner.

• Governor and Lt. Governor – Pete Rohrman and Karese Laguerre
• 12th District State Assembly - Dan Krause and Anthony Storrow

This past weekend, three of our candidates sat down at the Liberty Cafe studios for an interview about their campaigns.

Michael Chazukow for West Milford Town Council

In the November 2016 election the NJ Libertarian Party will be running candidates under the Libertarian Party banner. The following candidates have been nominated to run for office under the Libertarian banner.

• Bill Sihr - 1st Congressional District
• John Ordille - 2nd Congressional District
• Jeremy Marcus - 4th Congressional District

LIVINGSTON, NJ – The League of Women Voters held a debate for candidates for the State Assembly in the 27th district last Wednesday, September 30th. Libertarian candidates offered refreshing fact-based solutions to economic concerns such as job creation, state budgeting and state pensions.

The Republican candidate promised to reach across the aisle, work hard and renegotiate pensions without mentioning any specifics. The Democratic incumbents, Assemblyman John McKeon of West Orange and Assemblywoman Mila Jasey of South Orange, were absent.

“If you re-elect these people you know what to expect,” said Damien Caillault, one of the Libertarian candidates. “They will spend more, tax more, fund new projects, and in a few years, they’ll come back for more.”