The Conservative Party of Washington was a short-lived third party in the State of Washington, founded by Floyd Paxton and other ultra-conservatives in 1966.[1] After its founding convention, the party filed nominations for two candidates for the United States House of Representatives (one of them Paxton) and seven candidates for the Washington State Legislature.[2] The new party attracted some disaffected members of the Republican Party of Washington unhappy with the leadership of Governor Daniel J. Evans and his allies.[3] While Paxton and some other party leaders were identified as supporters of Alabama governor George Wallace's 1968 candidacy for President of the United States,[4] the Wallace campaign finally did not use the Conservative label, choosing instead to run under the American Party label.[5] The Conservatives did run candidates in 1968 for a handful of state-wide offices and one candidate for Congress, but now appeared under the Constitution Party label.[6] Neither label appeared on the 1970 ballot, although 1968 gubernatorial candidate Ken Chriswell was an independent candidate for State Senator in District #34.[7]

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