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 from a major party but then defected during a parliamentary term.
Minor party and independent MPs in Great Britain have been rare in recent times - there have been only ten elected since 1950.
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In Britain, MP are listed where they were elected as an independent, or for any party except the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats and its forerunners, the Liberal Unionist Party, the National Liberal parties, National Labour, the Scottish National Party or Plaid Cymru.
Election | Member of Parliament | Constituency | Party/Description |
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2010 | Caroline Lucas | Brighton Pavilion | Green |
2006 (b) | Dai Davies1 | Blaenau Gwent | Independent |
2005 | Richard Taylor 2 | Wyre Forest | Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern |
Peter Law 3 | Blaenau Gwent | Independent Labour | |
George Galloway 4 | Bethnal Green and Bow | RESPECT The Unity Coalition | |
2001 | Richard Taylor 2 | Wyre Forest | Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern |
1997 | Martin Bell 5 | Tatton | Independent |
Feb 1974 | Dick Taverne 6 | Lincoln | Democratic Labour |
Eddie Milne 7 | Blyth | Independent Labour | |
1973 (b) | Dick Taverne 6 | Lincoln | Democratic Labour |
1970 | S.O. Davies 8 | Merthyr Tydfil | Independent Labour |
1959 | David Robertson 9 | Caithness and Sutherland | Independent Conservative |
1950 | Capt. John MacLeod 10 | Ross and Cromarty | Independent Liberal |
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 | |
Henry Wilson Harris | Cambridge University | Independent | |
A. P. Herbert | Oxford University | Independent | |
William Denis Kendall | Grantham | Independent | |
Kenneth Martin Lindsay | Combined English Universities | Independent | |
Ernest Gorden Graham Graham-Little | London University | Independent | |
John Boyd Orr | Combined Scottish Universities | Independent | |
Eleanor Rathbone | Combined English Universities | Independent | |
Arthur Salter | Oxford University | Independent | |
Daniel Lipson | Cheltenham | Independent Conservative | |
John Mackie | Galloway | Independent Conservative | |
Denis Nowell 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-shire | 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 McDowall Lawson | Skipton | Common Wealth Party |
1944 (b) | Charles Frederick White | West Derbyshire | Independent |
1943 (b) | John Eric Loverseed | Eddisbury | Common Wealth Party |
1942 (b) | William John Brown | Rugby | Independent |
1942 (b) | Tom Driberg | Maldon | Independent |
1942 (b) | William Dennis Kendall | Grantham | Independent |
1942 (b) | Percy Grigg | Cardiff East | National |
1942 (b) | George Leonard Reakes | Wallasey | Independent |
1940 (b) | Andrew Duncan | City of London | National |
1940 (b) | Cuthbert Morley Headlam | Newcastle North | Independent Conservative |
1940 (b) | John Charles Walsham Reith | Southampton | National |
1938 (b) | Archibald Vivian 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) | Thomas Edmund Harvey | Combined English Universities | Independent Progressive |
1935 | Willie Gallacher | West Fife | Communist Party of Great Britain |
A. P. Herbert | Oxford University | 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 | |
I. M. Horobin | Southwark Central | National | |
J. A. 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 | |
Thomas Power 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 | |
John Hugh Edwards | Accrington | Constitutionalist | |
Abraham England | Heywood and Radcliffe | Constitutionalist | |
Hamar Greenwood | Walthamstow East | Constitutionalist | |
Frederick Edward Guest | Bristol North | Constitutionalist | |
Algernon Henry Moreing | Camborne | Constitutionalist | |
Thomas Robinson | Stretford | Constitutionalist | |
John Ward | Stoke | Constitutionalist | |
Austin Hopkinson | Mossley | Independent | |
Ernest Graham-Little | London University | Independent | |
Thomas Power 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 | |
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 | |
G. H. Roberts | Norwich | Independent | |
H. T. A. Becker | Richmond | Independent Conservative | |
James Malcolm Monteith Erskine | Westminster St George's | Independent Conservative | |
Gordon Ralph Hall Caine | East Dorset | Independent Conservative | |
Owen Thomas | Anglesey | Independent Labour | |
James Ramsay Montagu Butler | Cambridge University | Independent Liberal | |
Thomas Power 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 | Anti-Waste League |
1921 (b) | Thomas Andrew Polson | Dover | Independent |
1920 (b) | Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend | Wrekin | Independent |
1920 (b) | Charles Palmer | Wrekin | Independent |
Excluded during this period are MPs from the Conservative and Liberal Parties, the Labour Party and 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 Craig's classification is used.
Election | Member of Parliament | Constituency | Party/Description |
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1918 | Henry 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 NADSS | |
George Nicoll Barnes | Glasgow Gorbals | Coalition National Democratic Party | |
Allen 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 Andrew Seddon | Hanley | Coalition National Democratic Party | |
James Walton | Don Valley | Coalition National Democratic Party | |
Thomas Power O'Connor | Liverpool Scotland | Nationalist Party (Ireland) | |
Richard Cooper | Walsall | National Party | |
Henry Page Croft | Bournemouth | National Party | |
John Joseph Jones | Silvertown | National Socialist Party | |
1917 (b) | Benjamin Tillett | Salford North | Independent Labour |
1916 (b) | Noel Pemberton Billing | Hertford | Independent |
1915 (b) | Charles Butt Stanton | Merthyr Tydfil | Independent Labour |
1913 (b) | John Wakefield Weston | Kendal | Independent Conservative |
Dec 1910 | Francis Bennett-Goldney | Canterbury | Independent Conservative |
Thomas Power O'Connor | Liverpool Scotland | Nationalist Party (Ireland) | |
Jan 1910 | Archibald Cameron Corbett | Glasgow Tradeston | Independent Liberal |
Samuel Storey | Sunderland | Independent Conservative | |
Thomas Power O'Connor | Liverpool Scotland | Nationalist Party (Ireland) | |
1907 (b) | Victor Grayson | Colne Valley | Independent Labour |
1906 | John Wilkinson Taylor | Chester-le-Street | Independent Labour |
John Williams | Gower | Independent Lib-Lab | |
Thomas Power O'Connor | Liverpool Scotland | Nationalist Party (Ireland) | |
1904 (b) | John Seely | Isle of Wight | Independent Conservative |
1902 (b) | John Cathcart Wason | Orkney and Shetland | Independent Liberal |
1900 | John Austin | Osgoldcross | Independent Liberal |
Thomas Power O'Connor | Liverpool Scotland | Nationalist Party (Ireland) | |
1899 (b) | John Austin | Osgoldcross | Independent Liberal |
1895 | Thomas Power 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 | |
Joseph Havelock Wilson | Middlesbrough | Independent Labour | |
Edward William Watkin | Hythe | Independent Liberal | |
Thomas Power O'Connor | Liverpool Scotland | Nationalist Party (Ireland) | |
1888 (b) | William Pritchard Morgan | Merthyr Tydfil | Independent Liberal |
1886 | Thomas Power 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 Augustus Vansittart Conybeare | Camborne | Independent Liberal/Radical | |
Joseph Cowen | Newcastle-upon-Tyne | Independent Liberal | |
William John Wentworth-Fitzwilliam | Peterborough | Independent Liberal | |
George Joachim 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 | Argyll | Independent Liberal / Crofter | |
William Abraham | Rhondda | Independent Lib-Lab | |
Thomas Power O'Connor | Liverpool Scotland | Nationalist Party (Ireland) | |
1875 (b) | Edward Kenealy | Stoke | Independent |
1847 | Feargus O'Connor | Nottingham | Chartist |
MPs from the Democratic Unionist Party, Nationalist 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, as are those identified as Nationalist Party MPs. While these four are all currently regarded as major parties, it should be remembered that each of these parties has at times held only a single seat, and for many years Sinn Féin was a banned organisation and did not contest elections.
Election | Member of Parliament | Constituency | Party/Description |
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2010 | Naomi Long | Belfast East | Alliance |
Sylvia Hermon | North Down | Independent Unionist | |
1997 | Robert McCartney | North Down | UK Unionist Party |
1995 (b) | Robert McCartney | North Down | UK Unionist Party |
1992 | James Kilfedder 1 | North Down | Ulster Popular Unionist Party |
1987 | James Kilfedder 1 | North Down | Ulster Popular Unionist Party |
1986 (b) | James Kilfedder 1 | North Down | Ulster Popular Unionist Party |
1983 | James Kilfedder 1 | North Down | Ulster Popular Unionist Party |
1981 (b) | Owen Carron 2 | Fermanagh and South Tyrone | Anti H-Block |
1981 (b) | Bobby Sands 3 | Fermanagh and South Tyrone | Anti H-Block |
1979 | Frank Maguire 4 | Fermanagh and South Tyrone | Independent Republican |
James Kilfedder 1 | North Down | Independent Ulster Unionist | |
John Dunlop 5 | Mid Ulster | United Ulster Unionist Party | |
Oct 1974 | Frank Maguire 4 | Fermanagh and South Tyrone | Independent Republican |
Robert Bradford 6 | Belfast South | Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party | |
William Craig 6 | Belfast East | Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party | |
John Dunlop 5 | Mid Ulster | Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party | |
Feb 1974 | Robert Bradford 6 | Belfast South | Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party |
William Craig 6 | Belfast East | Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party | |
John Dunlop 5 | Mid Ulster | Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party | |
1970 | Ian Paisley 7 | North Antrim | Protestant Unionist Party |
Gerry Fitt 8 | 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 8 | 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 9 | Down | Independent Unionist | |
1943 (b) | Jack Beattie | Belfast West | Northern Ireland Labour Party |
1919 (b) | George Boyle Hanna | East Antrim | Independent Unionist |
All MPs are listed except those from the Ulster Unionist Party (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) | Timothy Michael 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 | |
Daniel Desmond 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 |
Daniel Desmond 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 | William O'Brien | Cork City | Independent Nationalist |
Timothy Michael Healy | North Louth | Independent Nationalist | |
Thomas Henry Sloan | Belfast South | Independent Unionist | |
1904 (b) | William O'Brien | Cork City | Independent Nationalist |
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 |
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 | |
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 |
1857 | John James Ennis | Athlone | Independent Opposition |
John Francis Maguire | Dungarvan | Independent Opposition | |
Michael Sullivan | Kilkenny City | Independent Opposition | |
Waterford City | Independent Opposition | ||
Francis Macnamara Calcutt | Clare | Independent Opposition | |
County Kilkenny | Independent Opposition | ||
County Leitrim | Independent Opposition | ||
George Henry Moore | Mayo | Independent Opposition | |
Edward McEvoy | Meath | Independent Opposition | |
Matthew Elias Corbally | Meath | Independent Opposition | |
Tipperary | Independent Opposition | ||
Richard Levinge | Westmeath | Independent Opposition | |
County Wexford | Independent Opposition | ||
1855 (b) | Edward McEvoy | Meath | Independent Opposition |
1853 (b) | John Francis Maguire | Dungarvan | Independent Opposition |
1853 (b) | Cornelius O'Brien | Clare | Independent Opposition |
1847 | Thomas Chisholm Anstey | Youghal | Irish Confederate |
William Smith O'Brien | County Limerick | Irish Confederate |
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