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      <TD STYLE="width: 100%; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center">As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 26, 2020</TD></TR>
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      <TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: right">Registration No. 333-<U>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</U></TD></TR>
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  <P STYLE="font: 14pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>UNITED STATES</B></P>
  
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  <P STYLE="font: 18pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>FORM S-8</B></P>
  
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  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES
  ACT OF 1933</B></P>
  
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  <P STYLE="font: 24pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>1ST CONSTITUTION BANCORP</B></P>
  
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  its charter)</P>
  
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      <TD STYLE="width: 54%; text-align: center">New Jersey</TD>
      <TD STYLE="width: 1%; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="width: 45%; text-align: center">22-3665653</TD></TR>
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      <TD STYLE="text-align: center">(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="text-align: center">(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)</TD></TR>
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  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">2650 Route 130</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">P.O. Box 634</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">Cranbury, New Jersey 08512</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">(Address, including zip code, of registrant&rsquo;s
  principal executive offices)</P>
  
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  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>1st CONSTITUTION BANCORP 2020 DIRECTORS
  STOCK PLAN</B></P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">(Full title of the Plan)</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">Mr.&nbsp;Robert F. Mangano</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">President and Chief Executive Officer</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">1st Constitution Bancorp</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">2650 Route 130</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">P.O. Box 634</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">Cranbury, New Jersey 08512</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">(609) 655-4500</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">(Name, address, including zip code, and
  telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">_______</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">With a Copy to:</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">Scott Warren Goodman, Esq.</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">Day Pitney LLP</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">One Jefferson Road</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">Parsippany, New Jersey 07054</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">(973) 966-6300</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">Indicate by check mark whether the registrant
  is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth
  company. See definitions of &ldquo;large accelerated filer,&rdquo; &ldquo;accelerated filer,&rdquo; &ldquo;smaller reporting company,&rdquo;
  and &ldquo;emerging growth company&rdquo; in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.</P>
  
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      <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; width: 54%">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Large&nbsp;accelerated&nbsp;filer&nbsp;&nbsp; <FONT STYLE="font-family: Wingdings">&uml;</FONT></TD>
      <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; width: 45%">Accelerated filer&nbsp; <FONT STYLE="font-family: Wingdings">x</FONT></TD></TR>
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      <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Non-accelerated&nbsp;filer&nbsp; <FONT STYLE="font-family: Wingdings">&uml;</FONT></TD>
      <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top">Smaller reporting&nbsp;company&nbsp;<FONT STYLE="font-family: Wingdings">x</FONT></TD></TR>
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      <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top">Emerging growth company <FONT STYLE="font-family: Wingdings">&uml;</FONT></TD></TR>
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  by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial
  standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. <FONT STYLE="font-family: Wingdings">&uml;</FONT></P>
  
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  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE</B></P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
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          <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 5.5pt 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>&nbsp;</B></P>
          <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 5.5pt 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>Title of securities</B></P>
          <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 5.5pt 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>to be registered</B></P></TD>
      <TD STYLE="width: 18%; border-top: black 2.25pt double; border-right: black 1pt solid; border-bottom: black 1pt solid">
          <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 5.5pt 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>&nbsp;</B></P>
          <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 5.5pt 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>Amount to be</B></P>
          <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 5.5pt 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>registered <SUP>(1)</SUP></B></P></TD>
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          <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 5.5pt 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>Proposed<BR>
          maximum</B></P>
          <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 5.5pt 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>offering price</B></P>
          <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 5.5pt 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>per share <SUP>(2)</SUP></B></P></TD>
      <TD STYLE="width: 18%; border-top: black 2.25pt double; border-right: black 1pt solid; border-bottom: black 1pt solid">
          <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 5.5pt 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>Proposed<BR>
          maximum</B></P>
          <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 5.5pt 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>aggregate<BR>
          offering</B></P>
          <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 5.5pt 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>price <SUP>(2)</SUP></B></P></TD>
      <TD STYLE="width: 17%; border-top: black 2.25pt double; border-right: black 1pt solid; border-bottom: black 1pt solid">
          <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 5.5pt 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>&nbsp;</B></P>
          <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 5.5pt 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>Amount of</B></P>
          <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 5.5pt 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>registration fee</B></P></TD></TR>
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      <TD STYLE="border-right: black 1pt solid; border-bottom: black 1pt solid; border-left: black 1pt solid; padding-left: 4.7pt; font-size: 10pt">Common Stock, no par <BR>
  value per share</TD>
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          <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 5.5pt 0pt 0; text-align: center">&nbsp;</P>
          <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 5.5pt 0pt 0; text-align: center">62,129 shares</P>
          <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 5.5pt 0pt 0; text-align: center">&nbsp;</P></TD>
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          <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 5.5pt 0pt 0; text-align: center">&nbsp;</P>
          <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 5.5pt 0pt 0; text-align: center">$12.41</P></TD>
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          <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 5.5pt 0pt 0; text-align: center">&nbsp;</P>
          <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 5.5pt 0pt 0; text-align: center">$771,020.89</P></TD>
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          <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 5.5pt 0pt 0; text-align: center">&nbsp;</P>
          <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 5.5pt 0pt 0; text-align: center">$100.08</P></TD></TR>
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  <TD STYLE="width: 9pt"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 27pt">(1)</TD><TD STYLE="text-align: justify">Represents shares that are or may become available for issuance under the 1st Constitution Bancorp
  2020 Directors Stock Plan (the &ldquo;Plan&rdquo;), consisting of (x) 60,000 newly authorized shares available for issuance under
  the Plan, and (y) 2,129 shares that were available for issuance under the 1st Constitution Bancorp 2015 Directors Stock Plan immediately
  prior to the filing of this Registration Statement on Form S-8, which shares have become available for issuance under the Plan.</TD></TR></TABLE>
  
  <P STYLE="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify">Pursuant to Rule 416 under the
  Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &ldquo;Securities Act&rdquo;), this Registration Statement also covers an indeterminable
  number of shares of common stock that may be issuable pursuant to the anti-dilution provisions contained in the Plan.</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>
  
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  <TD STYLE="width: 9pt"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 27pt">(2)</TD><TD STYLE="text-align: justify">Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee in accordance with Rule
                                                              457(h) under the Securities Act. The offering price per share and aggregate offering price are based on the average of the
                                                              high and low prices of the common stock of the Registrant as reported on June 24, 2020 on the Nasdaq Global Market.</TD></TR></TABLE>
  
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  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>PART I</B></P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a)
  PROSPECTUS</B></P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
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  <TD STYLE="width: 0"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 63pt">ITEM 1.</TD><TD><U>Plan Information</U>.*</TD></TR></TABLE>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 56.1pt">Not filed with this Registration Statement.</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
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  <TD STYLE="width: 0"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 63pt">ITEM 2.</TD><TD><U>Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information</U>.*</TD></TR></TABLE>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 56.1pt">Not filed with this Registration Statement.</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">* All information required by Part I to
  be contained in the Section 10(a) prospectus is omitted from this Registration Statement in accordance with Rule 428 under the
  Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &ldquo;Securities Act&rdquo;), and the Note to Part I of Form S-8 as promulgated by the
  Securities and Exchange Commission (the &ldquo;Commission&rdquo;).</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>PART II</B></P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION
  STATEMENT</B></P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
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  <TD STYLE="width: 0"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 63pt">ITEM 3.</TD><TD><U>Incorporation of Documents by Reference</U>.</TD></TR></TABLE>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 56.1pt">The following documents
  filed by 1st Constitution Bancorp (the &ldquo;Company&rdquo;) with the Commission are incorporated by reference in this Registration
  Statement:</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
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  <TD STYLE="width: 54.9pt"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 26.1pt">1.</TD><TD>The Company&rsquo;s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019, filed with the Commission on March 16,
  2020.</TD></TR></TABLE>
  
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  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
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  <TD STYLE="width: 54.9pt"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 26.1pt">2.</TD><TD STYLE="text-align: justify">Portions of the Company&rsquo;s definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A filed with the Commission
  on April 16, 2020 that are incorporated by reference into the Company&rsquo;s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December
  31, 2020.</TD></TR></TABLE>
  
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  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
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  <TD STYLE="width: 54.9pt"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 26.1pt">3.</TD><TD STYLE="text-align: justify">The Company&rsquo;s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2020, filed with
  the Commission on May 11, 2020.</TD></TR></TABLE>
  
  <P STYLE="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"></P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <TABLE CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%" STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
  <TD STYLE="width: 54.9pt"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 26.1pt">4.</TD><TD STYLE="text-align: justify">The Company&rsquo;s Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on January 17, 2020,
  January 31, 2020, March 13, 2020, May 4, 2020, May 22, 2020 and June 17, 2020.</TD></TR></TABLE>
  
  <P STYLE="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"></P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <TABLE CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%" STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
  <TD STYLE="width: 54.9pt"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 26.1pt">5.</TD><TD STYLE="text-align: justify">The description of the Company&rsquo;s common stock, no par value per share, set forth in the Registration
  Statement on Form S-4 (File No. 333-191841) originally filed by the Company with the Commission on October 22, 2013, and any amendment
  or report filed for the purpose of updating such description.</TD></TR></TABLE>
  
  <P STYLE="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 56.1pt">In addition, all other
  documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
  as amended, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which
  deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, are hereby incorporated herein by reference and are deemed a part hereof from
  the date of filing of such documents. Any statement contained herein or in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated
  by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that
  a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference
  herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified
  or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 56.1pt">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 56.1pt">Notwithstanding the
  foregoing, no document, or portion thereof or exhibit to a document, that is &ldquo;furnished&rdquo; to the Commission, including
  under Item 2.02 or 7.01 of Form 8-K, prior to, on or subsequent to the date hereof, shall be incorporated herein by reference.</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
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  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"></P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <TABLE CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%" STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
  <TD STYLE="width: 0"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 63pt">ITEM 4.</TD><TD><U>Description of Securities</U>.</TD></TR></TABLE>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 56.1pt">Not applicable.</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <TABLE CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%" STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
  <TD STYLE="width: 0"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 63pt">ITEM 5.</TD><TD><U>Interests of Named Experts and Counsel</U>.</TD></TR></TABLE>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 56.1pt">Not applicable.</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <TABLE CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%" STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
  <TD STYLE="width: 0"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 63pt">ITEM 6.</TD><TD><U>Indemnification of Directors and Officers</U>.</TD></TR></TABLE>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 56.1pt"><U>Limitation of Liability of Directors
  and Officers</U>. The Company&rsquo;s certificate of incorporation contains provisions that may limit the liability of any director
  or officer of the Company to the Company or its shareholders for damages for an alleged breach of any duty owed to the Company
  or its shareholders. This limitation will not relieve an officer or director from liability based on any act or omission (i) in
  breach of such person&rsquo;s duty of loyalty to the Company or its shareholders; (ii) not in good faith or involving a knowing
  violation of law; or (iii) resulting in receipt by such officer or director of an improper personal benefit. These provisions are
  explicitly permitted by Section 14A:2-7(3) of the New Jersey Business Corporation Act.</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 56.1pt"><U>Indemnification of Directors, Officers,
  Employees and Agents</U>. The Company&rsquo;s certificate of incorporation provides that the Company will indemnify to the full
  extent from time to time permitted by law, any person made, or threatened to be made, a party to, or a witness or other participant
  in, any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil or criminal, administrative, arbitrative, legislative,
  investigative or of any other kind, by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director, officer, employee or other agent
  of the Company or any subsidiary of the Company or serves or served any other enterprise at the request of the Company against
  expenses, judgments, fines, penalties and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection
  with such action, suit or proceeding and any appeal therein. The Federal Deposit Insurance Act generally prohibits indemnification
  of a holding company&rsquo;s directors and officers for any penalty or judgment resulting from any administrative or civil action
  instituted by a federal banking agency.</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 56.1pt">Section 14A:3-5 of the New Jersey Business
  Corporation Act empowers a corporation to indemnify a corporate agent against its expenses and liabilities incurred in connection
  with any proceeding (other than a derivative lawsuit) involving the corporate agent by reason of his being or having been a corporate
  agent if (a) the agent acted in good faith and in a manner that the agent reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best
  interests of the corporation, and (b) with respect to any criminal proceeding, the corporate agent had no reasonable cause to believe
  its conduct was unlawful. For purposes of the New Jersey Business Corporation Act, the term &ldquo;corporate agent&rdquo; includes
  any present or former director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, and a person serving as a &ldquo;corporate agent&rdquo;
  for any other enterprise at the request of the corporation.</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 56.1pt">With respect to any derivative action,
  the Company is empowered to indemnify a corporate agent against its expenses (but not its liabilities) incurred in connection with
  any proceeding involving the corporate agent by reason of the agent being or having been a corporate agent if the agent acted in
  good faith and in a manner that the agent reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company. However,
  only the court in which the proceeding was brought can empower a corporation to indemnify a corporate agent against expenses with
  respect to any claim, issue or matter as to which the agent was adjudged liable to the corporation.</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 56.1pt">The Company may indemnify a corporate agent
  in a specific case if a determination is made by any of the following that the applicable standard of conduct was met: (i) the
  board of directors, or a committee thereof, acting by a majority vote of a quorum consisting of disinterested directors; (ii) by
  independent legal counsel if there is not a quorum of disinterested directors or if the disinterested quorum empowers counsel to
  make the determination; or (iii) by the shareholders.</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 56.1pt">A corporate agent is entitled to mandatory
  indemnification to the extent that the agent is successful on the merits or otherwise in any proceeding, or in defense of any claim,
  issue or matter in the proceeding. If a corporation fails or refuses to indemnify a corporate agent, whether the indemnification
  is permissive or mandatory, the agent may apply to a court to grant the agent the requested indemnification. In advance of the
  final disposition of a proceeding, the corporation may pay an agent&rsquo;s expenses if the agent agrees to repay the expenses
  if it is ultimately determined that the agent is not entitled to indemnification.</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
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  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"></P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 56.1pt"><U>Insurance</U>. The Company maintains
  insurance policies insuring the Company&rsquo;s directors and officers against liability for wrongful acts or omissions arising
  out of their positions as directors and officers, subject to certain limitations.</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <TABLE CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%" STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
  <TD STYLE="width: 0"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 63pt">ITEM 7.</TD><TD><U>Exemption from Registration Claimed</U>.</TD></TR></TABLE>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 56.1pt">Not applicable.</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
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  <TD STYLE="width: 0"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 63pt">ITEM 8.</TD><TD><U>Exhibits</U>.</TD></TR></TABLE>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
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  <TR STYLE="background-color: white">
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: bottom; width: 8%; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid">Exhibit No.&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; width: 1%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; width: 91%; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid">Description</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="background-color: white">
      <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204,238,255)">
      <TD>5</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD><A HREF="ex5.htm">Opinion of Day Pitney LLP (filed herewith)</A></TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top; background-color: White">
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204,238,255)">
      <TD>23.1</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD><A HREF="ex23_1.htm">Consent of BDO USA, LLP (filed herewith)</A></TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top; background-color: White">
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204,238,255)">
      <TD>23.2</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD><A HREF="ex5.htm">Consent of Day Pitney LLP (included in Exhibit 5 hereto)</A></TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top; background-color: White">
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204,238,255)">
      <TD>24</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD><A HREF="#poa">Power of Attorney (included on the signature page hereto)</A></TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top; background-color: White">
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="background-color: rgb(204,238,255)">
      <TD>99</TD>
      <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom"><A HREF="ex99.htm">1st Constitution Bancorp 2020 Directors Stock Plan (filed herewith)</A></TD></TR>
  </TABLE>
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <TABLE CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%" STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
  <TD STYLE="width: 0"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 63pt">ITEM 9.</TD><TD><U>Undertakings</U>.</TD></TR></TABLE>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 121.5pt; text-indent: -37.9pt">(a) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The
  undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 83.6pt">(1)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To
  file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement:</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 112.2pt">(i)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To
  include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &ldquo;Securities Act&rdquo;);</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 112.2pt">(ii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To
  reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the Registration Statement (or the most recent
  post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set
  forth in the Registration Statement;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 112.2pt">(iii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To
  include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the Registration Statement
  or any material change to such information in the Registration Statement;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify"><I>provided, however</I>, that paragraphs
  (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs
  is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of
  the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the &ldquo;Exchange Act&rdquo;) that are incorporated by reference in the Registration
  Statement.</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 83.6pt">(2)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That,
  for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be
  a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall
  be deemed to be the initial <I>bona fide</I> offering thereof.</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
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  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"></P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 83.6pt">(3)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To
  remove from the registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold
  at the termination of the offering.</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 56.1pt">(b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The
  undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for the purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing
  of the Registrant&rsquo;s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable,
  each filing of an employee benefit plan&rsquo;s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated
  by reference in the Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered
  therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial <I>bona fide</I> offering thereof.</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 56.1pt">(c)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Insofar
  as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons
  of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the
  Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In
  the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred
  or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding)
  is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant
  will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
  jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will
  be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
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  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"></P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B><U>SIGNATURES</U></B></P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 56.1pt">Pursuant to the requirements
  of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements
  for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
  duly authorized, in the Town of Cranbury, State of New Jersey, on June 26, 2020.</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>
  
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      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD COLSPAN="3"><B>1st CONSTITUTION BANCORP</B></TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD COLSPAN="3">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
      <TD STYLE="width: 50%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="width: 3%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="width: 32%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="width: 15%">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
      <TD>Date: June 26, 2020</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap">By:&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid">/s/ Robert F. Mangano</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD>Robert F. Mangano<BR>
  President and Chief Executive Officer<BR>
  (Principal Executive Officer)</TD>
      <TD>&nbsp;</TD></TR>
  </TABLE>
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B><A NAME="poa"></A><U>POWER OF ATTORNEY</U></B></P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 56.1pt">KNOW ALL PERSONS BY
  THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Robert F. Mangano, Stephen J. Gilhooly
  and Frank Lawatsch, Jr., Esq. as attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to sign on his
  or her behalf, individually and in any and all capacities, including the capacities stated below, any and all amendments (including
  post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement and any registration statements filed by the Registrant pursuant to Rule
  462(b) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, relating thereto and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents
  in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting to said attorneys-in-fact and agents, full power
  and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully
  to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact
  and agents, or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 56.1pt">Pursuant to the requirements
  of the Securities Act of 1933 this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the
  dates indicated.</P>
  
  <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
  
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  <TR>
      <TD STYLE="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: bottom; width: 30%; text-align: center"><B>Signature</B></TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; width: 2%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: bottom; width: 50%; text-align: center"><B>Capacity</B></TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; width: 2%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: bottom; width: 16%; text-align: center"><B>Date</B></TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; text-align: left">/s/ Robert F. Mangano</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center">President, Chief Executive Officer and Director</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">June 26, 2020</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">Robert F. Mangano</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center">(Principal Executive Officer)</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; text-align: left">/s/ Charles S. Crow, III</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center">Chairman of the Board</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">June 26, 2020</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">Charles S. Crow, III</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; text-align: left">/s/ William M. Rue</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center">Director</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">June 26, 2020</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">William M. Rue</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; text-align: left">/s/ Edwin J. Pisani</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center">Director</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">June 26, 2020</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">Edwin J. Pisani</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; text-align: left">/s/ Antonio L. Cruz</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center">Director</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">June 26, 2020</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">Antonio L. Cruz</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
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      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; text-align: left">/s/ Roy D. Tartaglia</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center">Director</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">June 26, 2020</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">Roy D. Tartaglia</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; text-align: left">/s/ J. Lynne Cannon</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center">Director</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">June 26, 2020</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">J. Lynne Cannon</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; text-align: left; width: 30%">/s/ James G. Aaron</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; width: 2%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center; width: 50%">Director</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; width: 2%">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt; width: 16%">June 26, 2020</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">James G. Aaron</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">/s/ Carmen M. Penta</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center">Director</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">June 26, 2020</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">Carmen M. Penta</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; text-align: left">/s/ William J. Barrett</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center">Director</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">June 26, 2020</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">William J. Barrett</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; text-align: left">/s/ Raymond R. Ciccone</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center">Director</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">June 26, 2020</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">Raymond R. Ciccone</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; text-align: left">/s/ Stephen J. Gilhooly</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center">Senior Vice President, Treasurer and</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">June 26, 2020</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">Stephen J. Gilhooly</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap">
          <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center">Chief Financial Officer</P>
          <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center">(Principal Financial Officer)</P></TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; text-align: left">/s/ Naqi A. Naqvi</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center">Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">June 26, 2020</TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">Naqi A. Naqvi</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center">
          <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 5.5pt 0pt 7.7pt; text-align: center"></P>
          <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 5.5pt 0pt 7.7pt; text-align: center">(Principal Accounting Officer)</P></TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
      <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; padding-left: 7.7pt">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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text: As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 26, 2020
  Registration No. 333-
  UNITED STATES
  SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
  WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
  ________________
  FORM S-8
  REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES
  ACT OF 1933
  1ST CONSTITUTION BANCORP
  (Exact name of registrant as specified in
  its charter)
  New Jersey
  22-3665653
  (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)
  (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
  2650 Route 130
  P.O. Box 634
  Cranbury, New Jersey 08512
  (Address, including zip code, of registrant's
  principal executive offices)
  1st CONSTITUTION BANCORP 2020 DIRECTORS
  STOCK PLAN
  (Full title of the Plan)
  Mr. Robert F. Mangano
  President and Chief Executive Officer
  1st Constitution Bancorp
  2650 Route 130
  P.O. Box 634
  Cranbury, New Jersey 08512
  (609) 655-4500
  (Name, address, including zip code, and
  telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
  _______
  With a Copy to:
  Scott Warren Goodman, Esq.
  Day Pitney LLP
  One Jefferson Road
  Parsippany, New Jersey 07054
  (973) 966-6300
  Indicate by check mark whether the registrant
  is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth
  company. See definitions of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated filer," "smaller reporting company,"
  and "emerging growth company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
  Large accelerated filer
  ¨
  Accelerated filer
  x
  Non-accelerated filer
  ¨
  Smaller reporting company
  x
  Emerging growth company
  ¨
  If an emerging growth company, indicate
  by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial
  standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act.
  ¨
  CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
  Title of securities
  to be registered
  Amount to be
  registered
  (1)
  Proposed
  maximum
  offering price
  per share
  (2)
  Proposed
  maximum
  aggregate
  offering
  price
  (2)
  Amount of
  registration fee
  Common Stock, no par
  value per share
  62,129 shares
  $12.41
  $771,020.89
  $100.08
  __________________________
  (1)
  Represents shares that are or may become available for issuance under the 1st Constitution Bancorp
  2020 Directors Stock Plan (the "Plan"), consisting of (x) 60,000 newly authorized shares available for issuance under
  the Plan, and (y) 2,129 shares that were available for issuance under the 1st Constitution Bancorp 2015 Directors Stock Plan immediately
  prior to the filing of this Registration Statement on Form S-8, which shares have become available for issuance under the Plan.
  Pursuant to Rule 416 under the
  Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), this Registration Statement also covers an indeterminable
  number of shares of common stock that may be issuable pursuant to the anti-dilution provisions contained in the Plan.
  (2)
  Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee in accordance with Rule
                                                              457(h) under the Securities Act. The offering price per share and aggregate offering price are based on the average of the
                                                              high and low prices of the common stock of the Registrant as reported on June 24, 2020 on the Nasdaq Global Market.
  PART I
  INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a)
  PROSPECTUS
  ITEM 1.
  Plan Information
  .*
  Not filed with this Registration Statement.
  ITEM 2.
  Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information
  .*
  Not filed with this Registration Statement.
  * All information required by Part I to
  be contained in the Section 10(a) prospectus is omitted from this Registration Statement in accordance with Rule 428 under the
  Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and the Note to Part I of Form S-8 as promulgated by the
  Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission").
  PART II
  INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION
  STATEMENT
  ITEM 3.
  Incorporation of Documents by Reference
  .
  The following documents
  filed by 1st Constitution Bancorp (the "Company") with the Commission are incorporated by reference in this Registration
  Statement:
  1.
  The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019, filed with the Commission on March 16,
  2020.
  2.
  Portions of the Company's definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A filed with the Commission
  on April 16, 2020 that are incorporated by reference into the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December
  31, 2020.
  3.
  The Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2020, filed with
  the Commission on May 11, 2020.
  4.
  The Company's Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on January 17, 2020,
  January 31, 2020, March 13, 2020, May 4, 2020, May 22, 2020 and June 17, 2020.
  5.
  The description of the Company's common stock, no par value per share, set forth in the Registration
  Statement on Form S-4 (File No. 333-191841) originally filed by the Company with the Commission on October 22, 2013, and any amendment
  or report filed for the purpose of updating such description.
  In addition, all other
  documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
  as amended, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which
  deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, are hereby incorporated herein by reference and are deemed a part hereof from
  the date of filing of such documents. Any statement contained herein or in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated
  by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that
  a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference
  herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified
  or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.
  Notwithstanding the
  foregoing, no document, or portion thereof or exhibit to a document, that is "furnished" to the Commission, including
  under Item 2.02 or 7.01 of Form 8-K, prior to, on or subsequent to the date hereof, shall be incorporated herein by reference.
  ITEM 4.
  Description of Securities
  .
  Not applicable.
  ITEM 5.
  Interests of Named Experts and Counsel
  .
  Not applicable.
  ITEM 6.
  Indemnification of Directors and Officers
  .
  Limitation of Liability of Directors
  and Officers
  . The Company's certificate of incorporation contains provisions that may limit the liability of any director
  or officer of the Company to the Company or its shareholders for damages for an alleged breach of any duty owed to the Company
  or its shareholders. This limitation will not relieve an officer or director from liability based on any act or omission (i) in
  breach of such person's duty of loyalty to the Company or its shareholders; (ii) not in good faith or involving a knowing
  violation of law; or (iii) resulting in receipt by such officer or director of an improper personal benefit. These provisions are
  explicitly permitted by Section 14A:2-7(3) of the New Jersey Business Corporation Act.
  Indemnification of Directors, Officers,
  Employees and Agents
  . The Company's certificate of incorporation provides that the Company will indemnify to the full
  extent from time to time permitted by law, any person made, or threatened to be made, a party to, or a witness or other participant
  in, any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil or criminal, administrative, arbitrative, legislative,
  investigative or of any other kind, by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director, officer, employee or other agent
  of the Company or any subsidiary of the Company or serves or served any other enterprise at the request of the Company against
  expenses, judgments, fines, penalties and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection
  with such action, suit or proceeding and any appeal therein. The Federal Deposit Insurance Act generally prohibits indemnification
  of a holding company's directors and officers for any penalty or judgment resulting from any administrative or civil action
  instituted by a federal banking agency.
  Section 14A:3-5 of the New Jersey Business
  Corporation Act empowers a corporation to indemnify a corporate agent against its expenses and liabilities incurred in connection
  with any proceeding (other than a derivative lawsuit) involving the corporate agent by reason of his being or having been a corporate
  agent if (a) the agent acted in good faith and in a manner that the agent reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best
  interests of the corporation, and (b) with respect to any criminal proceeding, the corporate agent had no reasonable cause to believe
  its conduct was unlawful. For purposes of the New Jersey Business Corporation Act, the term "corporate agent" includes
  any present or former director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, and a person serving as a "corporate agent"
  for any other enterprise at the request of the corporation.
  With respect to any derivative action,
  the Company is empowered to indemnify a corporate agent against its expenses (but not its liabilities) incurred in connection with
  any proceeding involving the corporate agent by reason of the agent being or having been a corporate agent if the agent acted in
  good faith and in a manner that the agent reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company. However,
  only the court in which the proceeding was brought can empower a corporation to indemnify a corporate agent against expenses with
  respect to any claim, issue or matter as to which the agent was adjudged liable to the corporation.
  The Company may indemnify a corporate agent
  in a specific case if a determination is made by any of the following that the applicable standard of conduct was met: (i) the
  board of directors, or a committee thereof, acting by a majority vote of a quorum consisting of disinterested directors; (ii) by
  independent legal counsel if there is not a quorum of disinterested directors or if the disinterested quorum empowers counsel to
  make the determination; or (iii) by the shareholders.
  A corporate agent is entitled to mandatory
  indemnification to the extent that the agent is successful on the merits or otherwise in any proceeding, or in defense of any claim,
  issue or matter in the proceeding. If a corporation fails or refuses to indemnify a corporate agent, whether the indemnification
  is permissive or mandatory, the agent may apply to a court to grant the agent the requested indemnification. In advance of the
  final disposition of a proceeding, the corporation may pay an agent's expenses if the agent agrees to repay the expenses
  if it is ultimately determined that the agent is not entitled to indemnification.
  Insurance
  . The Company maintains
  insurance policies insuring the Company's directors and officers against liability for wrongful acts or omissions arising
  out of their positions as directors and officers, subject to certain limitations.
  ITEM 7.
  Exemption from Registration Claimed
  .
  Not applicable.
  ITEM 8.
  Exhibits
  .
  Exhibit No.
  Description
  5
  Opinion of Day Pitney LLP (filed herewith)
  23.1
  Consent of BDO USA, LLP (filed herewith)
  23.2
  Consent of Day Pitney LLP (included in Exhibit 5 hereto)
  24
  Power of Attorney (included on the signature page hereto)
  99
  1st Constitution Bancorp 2020 Directors Stock Plan (filed herewith)
  ITEM 9.
  Undertakings
  .
  (a)         The
  undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:
  (1)        To
  file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement:
  (i)         To
  include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act");
  (ii)        To
  reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the Registration Statement (or the most recent
  post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set
  forth in the Registration Statement;
  (iii)       To
  include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the Registration Statement
  or any material change to such information in the Registration Statement;
  provided, however
  , that paragraphs
  (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs
  is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of
  the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act") that are incorporated by reference in the Registration
  Statement.
  (2)       That,
  for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be
  a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall
  be deemed to be the initial
  bona fide
  offering thereof.
  (3)       To
  remove from the registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold
  at the termination of the offering.
  (b)        The
  undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for the purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing
  of the Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable,
  each filing of an employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated
  by reference in the Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered
  therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial
  bona fide
  offering thereof.
  (c)        Insofar
  as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons
  of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the
  Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In
  the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred
  or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding)
  is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant
  will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
  jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will
  be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
  SIGNATURES
  Pursuant to the requirements
  of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements
  for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
  duly authorized, in the Town of Cranbury, State of New Jersey, on June 26, 2020.
  1st CONSTITUTION BANCORP
  Date: June 26, 2020
  By:
  /s/ Robert F. Mangano
  Robert F. Mangano
  President and Chief Executive Officer
  (Principal Executive Officer)
  POWER OF ATTORNEY
  KNOW ALL PERSONS BY
  THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Robert F. Mangano, Stephen J. Gilhooly
  and Frank Lawatsch, Jr., Esq. as attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to sign on his
  or her behalf, individually and in any and all capacities, including the capacities stated below, any and all amendments (including
  post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement and any registration statements filed by the Registrant pursuant to Rule
  462(b) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, relating thereto and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents
  in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting to said attorneys-in-fact and agents, full power
  and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully
  to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact
  and agents, or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
  Pursuant to the requirements
  of the Securities Act of 1933 this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the
  dates indicated.
  Signature
  Capacity
  Date
  /s/ Robert F. Mangano
  President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
  June 26, 2020
  Robert F. Mangano
  (Principal Executive Officer)
  /s/ Charles S. Crow, III
  Chairman of the Board
  June 26, 2020
  Charles S. Crow, III
  /s/ William M. Rue
  Director
  June 26, 2020
  William M. Rue
  /s/ Edwin J. Pisani
  Director
  June 26, 2020
  Edwin J. Pisani
  /s/ Antonio L. Cruz
  Director
  June 26, 2020
  Antonio L. Cruz
  /s/ Roy D. Tartaglia
  Director
  June 26, 2020
  Roy D. Tartaglia
  /s/ J. Lynne Cannon
  Director
  June 26, 2020
  J. Lynne Cannon
  /s/ James G. Aaron
  Director
  June 26, 2020
  James G. Aaron
  /s/ Carmen M. Penta
  Director
  June 26, 2020
  Carmen M. Penta
  /s/ William J. Barrett
  Director
  June 26, 2020
  William J. Barrett
  /s/ Raymond R. Ciccone
  Director
  June 26, 2020
  Raymond R. Ciccone
  /s/ Stephen J. Gilhooly
  Senior Vice President, Treasurer and
  June 26, 2020
  Stephen J. Gilhooly
  Chief Financial Officer
  (Principal Financial Officer)
  /s/ Naqi A. Naqvi
  Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer
  June 26, 2020
  Naqi A. Naqvi
  (Principal Accounting Officer)