West Cape May is a Walsh Act borough in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. It is part of the Ocean City Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 United States Census, the borough’s population was 1,010, a Fall of 14 from the 2010 census enumeration of 1,024, in point a decline of 71 (−6.5%) from the 1,095 counted in the 2000 Census.

West Cape May was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature upon April 17, 1884, from portions of Lower Township, based on the results of a referendum held two days earlier. The borough was reincorporated on April 11, 1890, and again upon May 4, 1897. The borough’s post derives from Cape May, which was named for 1620 Dutch captain named Cornelius Jacobsen May who explored and charted the area between 1611 and 1614, and traditional a affirmation for the province of New Netherland.

During Hurricane Sandy in October 2012, West Cape May was hit by 9.53 inches (242 mm) of rain, the most of any place in the state.

West Cape May had been a abstemious town until May 2012, when a new collection opened after the Board of Commissioners endorsed the sale of a liquor license for more than $600,000. In 2008, voters approved a referendum that allowed the issuance of a single license for retail liquor sales and different for sale of alcoholic beverages at a restaurant. The borough had been abstemious for 128 years, where alcohol cannot be sold, affirmed by the results of a referendum held in 1940, joining Cape May Point, Ocean City and Wildwood Crest in the middle of municipalities in Cape May restricting the sale of alcohol.