List of minor party and independent MPs elected in the United Kingdom explained

Minor parties and independents
Seats1 Title:	House of Commons

This is a list of members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom who were elected as independents 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

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 were only 13 people elected as such in Great Britain between 1950 and 2023. However, there was a surge at the general election in 2024, with 4 Green MPs, 5 Reform MPs, and 5 independent candidates elected in constituencies with large Muslim populations, where there was opposition to the Labour Party due to their stance on the Israel-Gaza war.^[1]

1950–present

Election	Member of Parliament	Constituency	Party/Description
2024	Siân Berry	Brighton Pavilion	Green
	Ellie Chowns	North Herefordshire	Green
	Carla Denyer	Bristol Central	Green
	Adrian Ramsay	Waveney Valley	Green
	Shockat Adam	Leicester South	Independent
	Jeremy Corbyn	Islington North	Independent
	Adnan Hussain	Blackburn	Independent
	Ayoub Khan	Birmingham Perry Barr	Independent
	Iqbal Mohamed	Dewsbury and Batley	Independent
	Lee Anderson	Ashfield	Reform UK
	Nigel Farage	Clacton	Reform UK
	Rupert Lowe	Great Yarmouth	Reform UK
	James McMurdock	South Basildon and East Thurrock	Reform UK
	Richard Tice	Boston and Skegness	Reform UK
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 Davies^10	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.
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.
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.
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.^[2]
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.^[2]
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.^[3]
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

Election	Member of Parliament	Constituency	Party/Description
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

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
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		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		Labour Representation Committee
	George Davy Kelley		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		Independent Conservative
	Robert Juckes Clifton	Nottingham	Independent Liberal
1866 (b)	Ralph Bernal Osborne	Nottingham	Independent Liberal
1865	Robert Juckes Clifton^[4]	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^[5]	Beverley	Independent Conservative
	Samuel Gurney	Penryn and Falmouth	Independent Whig
	William Hackblock	Reigate	Independent Whig
	William McCullagh^[6]	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

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
2024	Jim Allister	North Antrim	Traditional Unionist Voice
	Sorcha Eastwood	Lagan Valley	Alliance
	Alex Easton	North Down	Independent
2019	Stephen Farry	North Down	Alliance
2017	Sylvia Hermon^1	North Down	Independent
2015	Sylvia Hermon^1	North Down	Independent
2010	Naomi Long	Belfast East	Alliance
	Sylvia Hermon^1	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

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
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^[7]	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

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

References

• British Parliamentary By-Elections since 1945
  • F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Statistics 1832-1987

Notes and References

1. Web site: Pro-Gaza candidates squeeze Labour vote in some constituencies . 2024-07-12 . www.bbc.com . en-GB.
2. News: Usenet post "Independent MPs" listing all MPs not elected from major parties since 1918. David Boothroyd. 1997-03-13.
3. News: BBC News article "Why AM Law took on his own party". David Williams. 2005-04-03.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Following the general election in April 1857, Moore's election was declared void on 14 July. The writ was suspended until December.