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This is a list of members of the United Kingdom House of Commons who were elected as an independent or as a member of a minor political party.

Excluded are the speaker, who traditionally stands for re-election without party affiliation, and MPs who were elected representing a major party but then defected or had the whip removed during a parliamentary term.

## Great Britain[edit]

In Great Britain, the major parties are considered to be the Conservative and Unionist Party, the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats and its forerunners, the Liberal Unionist Party, the various National Liberal parties, National Labour, the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru.

Minor party and independent MPs have been rare in recent times: there have been only 13 different persons elected as such in Great Britain since 1950.

### 1950–present[edit]

Election  | Member of Parliament  | Constituency  | Party/Description

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2024 (b) | George Galloway | Rochdale | Workers Party of Britain
2019 | Caroline Lucas | Brighton Pavilion | Green
2017 | Caroline Lucas  | Brighton Pavilion  | Green
2015 | Douglas Carswell | Clacton | UK Independence Party
Caroline Lucas  | Brighton Pavilion  | Green
2014 (b) | Mark Reckless | Rochester and Strood | UK Independence Party
2014 (b) | Douglas Carswell  | Clacton  | UK Independence Party
2012 (b) | George Galloway  | Bradford West | Respect Party
2010 | Caroline Lucas  | Brighton Pavilion  | Green
2006 (b) | Dai Davies10 | Blaenau Gwent | Independent
2005 | Richard Taylor 7 | Wyre Forest | Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern
Peter Law 8 | Blaenau Gwent  | Independent
George Galloway 9 | Bethnal Green and Bow | RESPECT The Unity Coalition
2001 | Richard Taylor 7 | Wyre Forest  | Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern
1997 | Martin Bell 6 | Tatton | Independent
Feb 1974 | Dick Taverne 4 | Lincoln | Democratic Labour
Eddie Milne 5 | Blyth | Independent Labour
1973 (b) | Dick Taverne 4 | Lincoln  | Democratic Labour
1970 | S. O. Davies 3 | Merthyr Tydfil | Independent Labour
1959 | David Robertson 2 | Caithness and Sutherland | Independent Conservative
1950 | Capt. John MacLeod 1 | Ross and Cromarty | Independent Liberal

(b) = by-election

1. In 1945 and 1950, MacLeod was the nominee of the Ross and Cromarty Liberal Association, but this was not connected the Liberal Party nationally. He was a supporter of Winston Churchill and from 1951 became an official National Liberal and Conservative candidate and MP.[1]
2. Robertson had been an official Conservative MP for the seat since 1950 but resigned the party whip in 1959 in opposition to the Government's Scottish policy and fought the election without a Conservative opponent.[1]
3. Davies had been the Labour MP for Merthyr Tydfil since 1934 but in the run-up to the 1970 general election he was deselected by his local party on grounds of age. He stood again against the new Labour candidate and won.[1]
4. Taverne was the sitting Labour MP for Lincoln who was increasingly at odds with his ever more left-wing local party. In 1973 he was deselected as an official Labour candidate. He resigned from Parliament and fought the ensuing by-election as a Democratic Labour candidate against the official Labour nominee, holding the seat in the February 1974 general election but losing in October 1974.[1]
5. Milne was the sitting Labour MP for Blyth who was deselected by his local party in disputes surrounding Labour Party corruption in the North East. He stood against the official Labour nominee and won the seat, but lost in the October 1974 general election.[1]
6. Bell, a BBC News war reporter, was nominated as a single issue candidate in opposition to the "sleaze" allegations surrounding the sitting Conservative MP for Tatton, Neil Hamilton. Both the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties withdrew their candidates in support of Bell.
7. Taylor was the nominee of Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern, a party formed around the single issue of keeping the casualty unit at Kidderminster General Hospital. In both the 2001 and 2005 general elections his candidature was not opposed by the Liberal Democrats.
8. Law was the sitting Labour Member of the Welsh Assembly for Blaenau Gwent who stood for the Westminster Parliament following a dispute over the selection of the official Labour candidate, Maggie Jones, involving an all women shortlist, a process that was opposed by many members and officials in the local party, including the retiring Labour MP Llew Smith.[2]
9. Galloway was the Labour MP for Glasgow Hillhead from 1987 and then Glasgow Kelvin following name and boundary changes in 1997. In 2003, he was expelled from the Labour Party when a party body found that he had brought the party into disrepute over the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He helped form Respect and challenged incumbent Bethnal Green & Bow Labour MP Oona King who had supported the war.
10. Davies had been Peter Law's electoral agent in the general election.

### 1919–1950[edit]

Election  | Member of Parliament  | Constituency  | Party/Description

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1946 (b) | James Carmichael | Glasgow Bridgeton | Independent Labour Party
1945 | Ernest Millington | Chelmsford | Common Wealth Party
Willie Gallacher | West Fife | Communist Party of Great Britain
Phil Piratin | Mile End | Communist Party of Great Britain
William Brown | Rugby | Independent
Wilson Harris | Cambridge University | Independent
A. P. Herbert | Oxford University | Independent
Denis Kendall | Grantham | Independent
Kenneth Lindsay | Combined English Universities | Independent
Ernest Graham-Little | London University | Independent
John Boyd Orr | Combined Scottish Universities | Independent
Eleanor Rathbone | Combined English Universities  | Independent
Arthur Salter | University of Oxford  | Independent
Daniel Lipson | Cheltenham | Independent Conservative
John Mackie | Galloway | Independent Unionist
Denis Pritt | Hammersmith North | Independent Labour
James Maxton | Glasgow Bridgeton  | Independent Labour Party
Campbell Stephen | Glasgow Camlachie | Independent Labour Party
John McGovern | Glasgow Shettleston | Independent Labour Party
Murdo Macdonald | Inverness | Independent Liberal
Capt. John MacLeod | Ross and Cromarty | Independent Liberal
Vernon Bartlett | Bridgwater | Independent Progressive
John Anderson | Combined Scottish Universities  | National
Andrew Duncan | City of London | National
1945 (b) | Ernest Millington  | Chelmsford  | Common Wealth Party
1945 (b) | John Boyd Orr  | Combined Scottish Universities  | Independent
1944 (b) | Hugh Lawson | Skipton | Common Wealth Party
1944 (b) | Charles White | West Derbyshire | Independent
1943 (b) | John Loverseed | Eddisbury | Common Wealth Party
1942 (b) | William John Brown | Rugby  | Independent
1942 (b) | Tom Driberg | Maldon | Independent
1942 (b) | Denis Kendall | Grantham  | Independent
1942 (b) | James Grigg | Cardiff East | National
1942 (b) | George Reakes | Wallasey | Independent
1940 (b) | Andrew Duncan  | City of London  | National
1940 (b) | Cuthbert Headlam | Newcastle North | Independent Conservative
1940 (b) | John Reith | Southampton | National
1940 (b) | Archibald Hill | Cambridge University  | Independent Conservative
1938 (b) | Vernon Bartlett | Bridgwater  | Independent Progressive
1938 (b) | John Anderson  | Combined Scottish Universities | National
1937 (b) | Arthur Salter  | Oxford University  | Independent
1937 (b) | Daniel Lipson | Cheltenham  | Independent Conservative
1937 (b) | Edmund Harvey | Combined English Universities  | Independent Progressive
1935 | Willie Gallacher | West Fife  | Communist Party of Great Britain
A. P. Herbert  | University of Oxford  | Independent
Eleanor Rathbone  | Combined English Universities  | Independent
George Buchanan | Glasgow Gorbals | Independent Labour Party
James Maxton  | Glasgow Bridgeton  | Independent Labour Party
John McGovern  | Glasgow Shettleston  | Independent Labour Party
Campbell Stephen  | Glasgow Camlachie  | Independent Labour Party
Austin Hopkinson | Mossley | National Independent
Sir Ernest Graham-Little | London University  | National Independent
Ivor Guest | Breconshire and Radnorshire | National Independent
1931 | Eleanor Rathbone | Combined English Universities  | Independent
Josiah Wedgwood ¹  | Newcastle-under-Lyme | Independent Labour
George Buchanan ¹  | Glasgow Gorbals  | Independent Labour Party
David Kirkwood ¹  | Dumbarton Burghs | Independent Labour Party
James Maxton ¹  | Glasgow Bridgeton  | Independent Labour Party
John McGovern ¹  | Glasgow Shettleston  | Independent Labour Party
Richard Wallhead ¹  | Merthyr Tydfil | Independent Labour Party
David Lloyd George | Caernarvon | Independent Liberal
Gwilym Lloyd George | Pembrokeshire | Independent Liberal
Megan Lloyd George | Anglesey | Independent Liberal
Goronwy Owen | Caernarvonshire | Independent Liberal
Gordon Campbell | Burnley | National
Ian Horobin | Southwark Central | National
Joseph Leckie | Walsall | National
Austin Hopkinson  | Mossley  | National Independent
Ernest Graham-Little  | London University  | National Independent
1930 (b) | Ernest Taylor | Paddington South | Empire Free Trade Crusade
1929 | Ernest Graham-Little  | London University  | Independent
Robert Newman | Exeter | Independent
Eleanor Rathbone | Combined English Universities  | Independent
Thomas Robinson | Stretford | Independent
Neil Maclean ²  | Glasgow Govan | Independent Labour
T. P. O'Connor | Liverpool Scotland | Nationalist Party (Ireland)
Edwin Scrymgeour | Dundee | Scottish Prohibition Party
1924 | Shapurji Saklatvala | Battersea North | Communist Party of Great Britain
Winston Churchill | Epping | Constitutionalist
Hugh Edwards | Accrington | Constitutionalist
Abraham England | Heywood and Radcliffe | Constitutionalist
Hamar Greenwood | Walthamstow East | Constitutionalist
Algernon Moreing | Camborne | Constitutionalist
Thomas Robinson  | Stretford | Constitutionalist
John Ward | Stoke | Constitutionalist
Austin Hopkinson  | Mossley  | Independent
Ernest Graham-Little  | London University  | Independent
T. P. O'Connor | Liverpool Scotland  | Nationalist Party (Ireland)
Edwin Scrymgeour  | Dundee  | Scottish Prohibition Party
1923 | George M. L. Davies | University of Wales | Christian Pacifist
Austin Hopkinson  | Mossley  | Independent
Leif Jones | Camborne  | Independent Liberal
Oswald Mosley | Harrow | Independent
Rhys Hopkin Morris | Cardiganshire | Independent Liberal
Thomas Power O'Connor  | Liverpool Scotland  | Nationalist Party (Ireland)
Edwin Scrymgeour  | Dundee  | Scottish Prohibition Party
1922 | Walton Newbold | Motherwell | Communist Party of Great Britain
George Jarrett | Dartford | Constitutionalist
Austin Hopkinson  | Mossley  | Independent
Oswald Mosley  | Harrow  | Independent
George Henry Roberts | Norwich | Independent
Harry Becker | Richmond | Independent Conservative
James Malcolm Monteith Erskine | Westminster St George's | Independent Conservative
Gordon Hall Caine | East Dorset | Independent Conservative
Owen Thomas | Anglesey | Independent Labour
J. R. M. Butler | Cambridge University | Independent Liberal
T. P. O'Connor | Liverpool Scotland  | Nationalist Party (Ireland)
Edwin Scrymgeour  | Dundee  | Scottish Prohibition Party
1921 (b) | Murray Sueter | Hertford | Anti-Waste League and Independent
1921 (b) | James Malcolm Monteith Erskine | Westminster St George's  | Independent Anti-Waste
1921 (b) | Thomas Andrew Polson | Dover | Independent
1920 (b) | Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend | The Wrekin | Independent
1920 (b) | Charles Palmer | The Wrekin  | Independent

(b) = by-election

1. Stood as a "Labour Party" candidate, but without the backing of the Labour Party and did not take the Labour whip.
2. Due to an oversight, Maclean's candidature was not endorsed by the Labour Party. Once elected, he immediately took the Labour whip.

### 1832–1918[edit]

Excluded during this period are MPs from the Conservative and Liberal Parties, the Labour Party but not the Labour Representation Committee, the Liberal Unionist Party, the Whigs and the Tories. Before 1885 it becomes increasingly difficult to identify which MPs were independent, and F. W. S. Craig's classification is used.

Election  | Member of Parliament  | Constituency  | Party/Description

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1918 | Douglas King | North Norfolk | Coalition Independent
Alfred Waterson | Kettering | Co-operative Party
Horatio Bottomley | Hackney South | Independent
Noel Pemberton-Billing | Hertford | Independent
Frank Herbert Rose | Aberdeen North | Independent Labour
Owen Thomas | Anglesey | Independent Labour
Josiah Wedgwood | Newcastle-under-Lyme | Independent Liberal
Robert Hewitt Barker | Sowerby | Independent Conservative/NADSS
George Barnes | Glasgow Gorbals | Coalition National Democratic Party
Clement Edwards | East Ham South | Coalition National Democratic Party
Joseph Frederick Green | Leicester West | Coalition National Democratic Party
Eldred Hallas | Birmingham Duddeston | Coalition National Democratic Party
Charles Jesson | Walthamstow West | Coalition National Democratic Party
Charles Edgar Loseby | Bradford East | Coalition National Democratic Party
Matthew Turnbull Simm | Wallsend | Coalition National Democratic Party
James Seddon | Hanley | Coalition National Democratic Party
James Walton | Don Valley | Coalition National Democratic Party
T. P. O'Connor | Liverpool Scotland | Nationalist Party (Ireland)
Richard Cooper | Walsall | National Party
Henry Page Croft | Bournemouth | National Party
Jack Jones | Silvertown | National Socialist Party
1917 (b) | Benjamin Tillett | Salford North | Independent Labour
1916 (b) | Noel Pemberton Billing | Hertford  | Independent
1915 (b) | Charles Stanton | Merthyr Tydfil | Independent Labour
1913 (b) | John Weston | Kendal | Independent Conservative
Dec 1910 | Francis Bennett-Goldney | Canterbury | Independent Conservative
T. P. O'Connor | Liverpool Scotland  | Nationalist Party (Ireland)
Jan 1910 | Archibald Corbett | Glasgow Tradeston | Independent Liberal
Samuel Storey | Sunderland | Independent Conservative
T. P. O'Connor | Liverpool Scotland  | Nationalist Party (Ireland)
1907 (b) | Victor Grayson | Colne Valley | Colne Valley Labour League
1906
Arthur Henderson | Barnard Castle | Labour Representation Committee
Charles Duncan | Barrow-in-Furness | Labour Representation Committee
Philip Snowden | Blackburn | Labour Representation Committee
Alfred Henry Gill | Bolton | Labour Representation Committee
Fred Jowett | Bradford West | Labour Representation Committee
John Jenkins | Chatham | Labour Representation Committee
John Wilkinson Taylor | Chester-le-Street | Independent Labour
David Shackleton | Clitheroe | Labour Representation Committee
C. W. Bowerman | Deptford | Labour Representation Committee
Alexander Wilkie | Dundee | Labour Representation Committee
George Nicoll Barnes | Glasgow Blackfriars and Hutchesontown | Labour Representation Committee
John Hodge | Gorton | Labour Representation Committee
John Williams | Gower | Independent Liberal-Labour
James Parker | Halifax | Labour Representation Committee
Stephen Walsh | Ince | Labour Representation Committee
James O'Grady | Leeds East | Labour Representation Committee
Ramsay MacDonald | Leicester | Labour Representation Committee
T. P. O'Connor | Liverpool Scotland  | Nationalist Party (Ireland)
J. R. Clynes | Manchester North East | Labour Representation Committee
George Davy Kelley | Manchester South West | Labour Representation Committee
Keir Hardie | Merthyr Tydfil  | Labour Representation Committee
Walter Hudson | Newcastle-upon-Tyne | Labour Representation Committee
James Seddon | Newton | Labour Representation Committee
George Henry Roberts  | Norwich | Labour Representation Committee
John Thomas Macpherson | Preston | Labour Representation Committee
George Wardle | Stockport | Labour Representation Committee
Thomas Summerbell | Sunderland  | Labour Representation Committee
Will Thorne | West Ham South | Labour Representation Committee
William Wilson | Westhoughton | Labour Representation Committee
Thomas Frederick Richards | Wolverhampton West | Labour Representation Committee
Will Crooks | Woolwich | Labour Representation Committee
1904 (b) | J. E. B. Seely | Isle of Wight | Independent Conservative
1903 (b) | Arthur Henderson | Barnard Castle  | Labour Representation Committee
1903 (b) | Will Crooks | Woolwich  | Labour Representation Committee
1902 (b) | David Shackleton | Clitheroe  | Labour Representation Committee
1902 (b) | Cathcart Wason | Orkney and Shetland | Independent Liberal
1900 | John Austin | Osgoldcross | Independent Liberal
Keir Hardie | Merthyr Tydfil  | Labour Representation Committee
Richard Bell | Derby | Labour Representation Committee
T. P. O'Connor | Liverpool Scotland  | Nationalist Party (Ireland)
1899 (b) | John Austin  | Osgoldcross  | Independent Liberal
1895 | T. P. O'Connor | Liverpool Scotland  | Nationalist Party (Ireland)
1894 (b) | John Macleod | Sutherland | Liberal/Crofter
1892 | John Burns | Battersea | Independent Labour
Keir Hardie | West Ham South  | Independent Labour
Havelock Wilson | Middlesbrough | Independent Labour
Edward Watkin | Hythe | Independent Liberal
T. P. O'Connor | Liverpool Scotland  | Nationalist Party (Ireland)
1888 (b) | William Pritchard Morgan | Merthyr Tydfil  | Independent Liberal
1886 | T. P. O'Connor | Liverpool Scotland  | Nationalist Party (Ireland)
1885 | Robert Anstruther | St Andrews Burghs | Independent Liberal
John Macdonald Cameron | Wick Burghs | Independent Liberal
George Campbell | Kirkcaldy Burghs | Independent Liberal
Charles Conybeare | Camborne | Independent Liberal/Radical
Joseph Cowen | Newcastle-upon-Tyne  | Independent Liberal
John Wentworth-Fitzwilliam | Peterborough | Independent Liberal
George Goschen | Edinburgh East | Independent Liberal
George Harrison | Edinburgh South | Independent Liberal
Charles Stuart Parker | Perth | Independent Liberal
Edward William Watkin  | Hythe  | Independent Liberal
John Wilson | Edinburgh Central | Independent Liberal
Gavin Brown Clark | Caithness | Independent Liberal/Crofter
Charles Fraser-Mackintosh | Inverness-shire | Independent Liberal/Crofter
Roderick MacDonald | Ross and Cromarty | Independent Liberal/Crofter
Donald Horne Macfarlane | Argyllshire | Independent Liberal/Crofter
William Abraham | Rhondda | Independent Lib-Lab
T. P. O'Connor | Liverpool Scotland  | Nationalist Party (Ireland)
1880 | John Wentworth-Fitzwilliam  | Peterborough  | Independent Liberal
1878 (b) | John Wentworth-Fitzwilliam  | Peterborough  | Independent Liberal
1875 (b) | Edward Kenealy | Stoke | Independent
1874 | Charles Fraser-Mackintosh | Inverness Burghs | Independent Liberal
John Arthur Roebuck | Sheffield | Independent Liberal
1869 (b) | John Sinclair | Caithness  | Independent Liberal
1868 | Henry Butler-Johnstone | Cambridge | Independent Conservative
Robert Juckes Clifton | Nottingham | Independent Liberal
1866 (b) | Ralph Bernal Osborne | Nottingham  | Independent Liberal
1865 | Robert Juckes Clifton[3] | Nottingham  | Independent Liberal
Samuel Gurney | Penryn and Falmouth | Independent Liberal
John Arthur Roebuck  | Sheffield  | Independent Liberal
1861 (b) | Robert Juckes Clifton  | Nottingham  | Independent Liberal
1859 | Charles Eurwicke Douglas | Banbury | Independent Liberal
Samuel Gurney  | Penryn and Falmouth  | Independent Liberal
John Arthur Roebuck  | Sheffield  | Independent Liberal
1857 | Edward Glover[4] | Beverley | Independent Conservative
Samuel Gurney  | Penryn and Falmouth  | Independent Whig
William Hackblock | Reigate | Independent Whig
William McCullagh[5] | Great Yarmouth | Independent Whig
John Arthur Roebuck  | Sheffield  | Independent Whig
Dudley Ryder | Lichfield | Independent Whig
Henry Brinsley Sheridan | Dudley | Independent
William Pole Thornhill | North Derbyshire | Independent Whig
George Drought Warburton | Harwich | Independent Whig
1857 (b) | Edward Ryley Langworthy | Salford | Independent Whig
1856 (b) | Dudley Ryder  | Lichfield  | Independent Whig
1853 (b) | William Pole Thornhill  | North Derbyshire  | Independent Whig
1852 | John Arthur Roebuck  | Sheffield  | Independent Whig
1849 (b) | John Arthur Roebuck  | Sheffield  | Independent Whig
1847 | Feargus O'Connor | Nottingham  | Chartist

## Northern Ireland[edit]

MPs from the Democratic Unionist Party, Sinn Féin, Social Democratic and Labour Party or Ulster Unionist Party, including those Ulster Unionists who stood as part of the Conservative Party, are excluded. While these four are all currently regarded as major parties, each of these parties has at times held only a single seat (or none, in the cases of Sinn Féin, the SDLP, and the UUP), and for many years Sinn Féin was a banned organisation and did not contest elections. Also excluded are MPs from the Nationalist Party, which dissolved in 1977 but was formerly considered a major party.

Election  | Member of Parliament  | Constituency  | Party/Description

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2019 | Stephen Farry | North Down | Alliance
2017 | Sylvia Hermon1 | North Down  | Independent
2015 | Sylvia Hermon1 | North Down  | Independent
2010 | Naomi Long | Belfast East | Alliance
Sylvia Hermon1 | North Down  | Independent
1997 | Robert McCartney | North Down  | UK Unionist Party
1995 (b) | Robert McCartney  | North Down  | UK Unionist Party
1992 | James Kilfedder 2 | North Down  | Ulster Popular Unionist Party
1987 | James Kilfedder 2 | North Down  | Ulster Popular Unionist Party
1986 (b) | James Kilfedder 2 | North Down  | Ulster Popular Unionist Party
1983 | James Kilfedder 2 | North Down  | Ulster Popular Unionist Party
1981 (b) | Owen Carron 3 | Fermanagh and South Tyrone | Anti H-Block
1981 (b) | Bobby Sands 4 | Fermanagh and South Tyrone  | Anti H-Block
1979 | Frank Maguire 5 | Fermanagh and South Tyrone  | Independent Republican
James Kilfedder 2 | North Down  | Independent Ulster Unionist
John Dunlop 5 | Mid Ulster | United Ulster Unionist Party
Oct 1974 | Frank Maguire 5 | Fermanagh and South Tyrone  | Independent Republican
Robert Bradford 7 | Belfast South | Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party
William Craig 7 | Belfast East  | Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party
John Dunlop 6 | Mid Ulster  | Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party
Feb 1974 | Robert Bradford 7 | Belfast South  | Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party
William Craig 7 | Belfast East  | Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party
John Dunlop 6 | Mid Ulster  | Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party
1970 | Ian Paisley 8 | North Antrim | Protestant Unionist Party
Gerry Fitt 9 | Belfast West | Republican Labour Party
Bernadette Devlin | Mid Ulster  | Unity
Frank McManus | Fermanagh and South Tyrone  | Unity
1969 (b) | Bernadette Devlin  | Mid Ulster  | Opposition Unity
1966 | Gerry Fitt 9 | Belfast West  | Republican Labour Party
1956 (b) | George Forrest | Mid Ulster  | Independent Unionist
1951 | Michael O'Neill | Mid Ulster  | Independent Nationalist
Jack Beattie | Belfast West  | Irish Labour Party
1945 | Jack Beattie  | Belfast West  | Independent Labour
James Little 10 | Down | Independent Unionist
1943 (b) | Jack Beattie  | Belfast West  | Northern Ireland Labour Party
1919 (b) | George Boyle Hanna | East Antrim | Independent Unionist

(b) = by-election

1. Hermon was an Ulster Unionist MP for North Down from 2001 to 2010 when she left the party in opposition to the party's electoral pact with the NI Conservatives to form UCU-NF. She retained her seat at the 2010 general election, and at the next two general elections.
2. Kilfedder was an Ulster Unionist MP for Belfast West 1964-1966 and for North Down until 1977 when he left the party in opposition to Enoch Powell's proposals for integration over devolution. Kilfedder sat as an Independent Unionist until 1980, then formed the Ulster Popular Unionist Party which primarily served as a vehicle for him and his supporters.
3. Carron was elected on the issue of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike, standing as a "Anti H-Block/Proxy Political Prisoner" after new laws banned the nomination of any of the hunger strikers. He did not take his seat in the House of Commons. From 1982 onwards he was standing as a Sinn Féin in elections, including his unsuccessful defence of this seat in the 1983 general election.
4. Sands was the most prominent of the Irish Hunger Strikers and incarcerated at HM Prison Maze at the time of his election, though he was ideologically opposed to taking his seat in the Commons.
5. Maguire was the product of an electoral pact amongst Irish Nationalists. Although in the tradition of the prior Unity pact, he did not use the label (though is sometimes listed as a Unity MP). He did take his seat in the House of Commons, though only attended rarely.
6. Dunlop was the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party MP for Mid Ulster from February 1974, until the party split over leader William Craig's proposals for power-sharing with the Social Democratic and Labour Party in 1976. One faction, to which Dunlop belonged, formed the United Ulster Unionist Party, under which banner he stood and sat for the constituency until standing down at the 1983 election.
7. Craig and Bradford were the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party MPs for Belfast East & Belfast South respectively from February 1974 and stayed in Vanguard following the 1976 party split, then merging the party into the Ulster Unionists in February 1978.
8. In 1971 Paisley merged the Protestant Unionist Party into the new Democratic Unionist Party.
9. Fitt was elected as a Republican Labour Party in 1966 and 1970, but later in the latter year he left the party and co-founded the Social Democratic and Labour Party, for which he sat as an MP until 1980, when he left that party and sat in the Commons as an Independent Socialist until his defeat in 1983.
10. Little was elected as an official Ulster Unionist in the 1939 Down by-election. Prior to the 1945 general election he resigned from the party in protest at being subject to a reselection due to the retirement of Viscount Castlereagh, the other official Unionist MP, and held his seat as an Independent Ulster Unionist. He died in 1946.

## Ireland[edit]

All MPs are listed except those from the Irish Unionist Alliance (affiliated to the Conservative Party during this period), the Nationalist Party, Sinn Féin, the Liberal Party, the Liberal Unionist Party and the Home Rule candidates.

Election  | Member of Parliament  | Constituency  | Party/Description

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1918 | Robert Henry Woods | Dublin University | Independent Unionist
Thomas Henry Burn | Belfast St Anne's | Labour Unionist
Samuel McGuffin | Belfast Shankill | Labour Unionist
Thompson Donald | Belfast Victoria | Labour Unionist
1914 (b) | Edward John Graham | Tullamore | Independent Nationalist
1914 (b) | William O'Brien | Cork City | All-for-Ireland League
1913 (b) | John Guiney | North Cork | All-for-Ireland League
1911 (b) | Tim Healy | North East Cork | All-for-Ireland League
Dec 1910 | William O'Brien  | Cork City  | All-for-Ireland League
Maurice Healy | Cork City  | All-for-Ireland League
D. D. Sheehan | Mid Cork | All-for-Ireland League
Patrick Guiney | North Cork  | All-for-Ireland League
Moreton Frewen | North East Cork  | All-for-Ireland League
John Walsh | South Cork | All-for-Ireland League
Eugene Crean | South East Cork | All-for-Ireland League
James Gilhooly | West Cork | All-for-Ireland League
John McKean | South Monaghan | Independent Nationalist
Laurence Ginnell | North Westmeath | Independent Nationalist
1910 (b) | Maurice Healy  | North East Cork  | All-for-Ireland League
Jan 1910 | William O'Brien  | Cork City  | All-for-Ireland League
D. D. Sheehan | Mid Cork  | All-for-Ireland League
Patrick Guiney  | North Cork  | All-for-Ireland League
William O'Brien  | North East Cork  | All-for-Ireland League
Eugene Crean  | South East Cork  | All-for-Ireland League
James Gilhooly  | West Cork  | All-for-Ireland League
Timothy Michael Healy  | North Louth | All-for-Ireland League
John O'Donnell | South Mayo | All-for-Ireland League
Eugene O'Sullivan | East Kerry | Independent Nationalist
John McKean  | South Monaghan  | Independent Nationalist
Laurence Ginnell  | North Westmeath  | Independent Nationalist
1909 (b) | Maurice Healy  | Cork City  | Independent Nationalist
1906 (b) | D. D. Sheehan | Mid Cork  | Independent Labour
1906 | Timothy Michael Healy  | North Louth  | Independent Nationalist
Thomas Sloan | Belfast South | Independent Unionist
1903 (b) | Edward Mitchell | North Fermanagh | Independent
1902 (b) | Thomas Henry Sloan  | Belfast South  | Independent Unionist
1902 (b) | James Wood | Down East | Independent
1900 | John Campbell | South Armagh | Independent Nationalist
John Hammond | County Carlow | Independent Nationalist
Timothy Michael Healy  | North Louth  | Independent Nationalist
Joseph Nolan | South Louth | Independent Nationalist
James Laurence Carew | South Meath | Independent Nationalist
Patrick James Kennedy | North Westmeath  | Independent Nationalist
1885 | Edward de Cobain | Belfast East | Independent Conservative
William Johnston | Belfast South  | Independent Conservative
1875 (b) | John Mitchel | Tipperary | Independent Nationalist
1875 (b) | John Mitchel  | Tipperary  | Independent Nationalist
1871 (b) | John Martin | Meath | Independent Nationalist
1869 (b) | Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa | Tipperary  | Independent Nationalist
1868 | George Colthurst | Kinsale | Liberal-Conservative
1865 | George Colthurst  | Kinsale  | Liberal-Conservative
1863 (b) | George Colthurst  | Kinsale  | Liberal-Conservative
1857 | John Ennis | Athlone | Independent Irish Party
John Maguire | Dungarvan | Independent Irish Party
Michael Sullivan | Kilkenny City | Independent Irish Party
John Aloysius Blake | Waterford City | Independent Irish Party
Francis Macnamara Calcutt | Clare | Independent Irish Party
John Greene | County Kilkenny | Independent Irish Party
John Brady  | County Leitrim | Independent Irish Party
George Henry Moore[6] | Mayo | Independent Irish Party
Edward McEvoy | Meath  | Independent Irish Party
Matthew Corbally | Meath  | Independent Irish Party
Daniel O'Donoghue | Tipperary  | Independent Irish Party
Richard Levinge | Westmeath | Independent Irish Party
Patrick McMahon | County Wexford | Independent Irish Party
1855 (b) | Edward McEvoy  | Meath  | Independent Irish Party
1853 (b) | John Maguire  | Dungarvan  | Independent Irish Party
1853 (b) | Cornelius O'Brien | Clare  | Independent Irish Party
1851 (b) | Henry Fitzalan-Howard | Limerick City | Independent Whig
1847 | Thomas Chisholm Anstey | Youghal | Irish Confederate
William Smith O'Brien | County Limerick | Irish Confederate

## See also[edit]

* List of Canadian minor party and independent politicians elected
* Non-attached members of the European Parliament

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c d e David Boothroyd (13 March 1997). "Usenet post "Independent MPs" listing all MPs not elected from major parties since 1918".
2. ^ David Williams (3 April 2005). "BBC News article "Why AM Law took on his own party"".
3. ^ Following the general election in July 1865, the re-election of Robert Juckes Clifton was voided on petition. The writ was suspended until May 1866.
4. ^ Following the 1857 general election, Glover's election was voided on petition, because he lacked the necessary property qualifications to be a candidate after he was found to have lied about meeting them, and a by-election was held.
5. ^ Following the 1857 general election, McCullagh's election was voided on petition, and writ for a by-election was issued. No by-election was necessary as only two candidates were nominated, and they were returned unopposed.
6. ^ Following the general election in April 1857, Moore's election was declared void on 14 July. The writ was suspended until December.

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