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

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 There is no clear definition of 'major' or 'minor' party in Great Britain; this article takes them to include the Conservatives, Labour (including Labour Co-op), 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 to British seats between 1950 and 2023. However, there was a surge at the general election in 2024, with 5 Reform MPs, 4 Green 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 Gaza war.

1950–present ElectionMember of ParliamentConstituencyParty/Description2026 (b)Hannah SpencerGorton and DentonGreen2025 (b)Sarah PochinRuncorn and HelsbyReform UK2024Siân BerryBrighton PavilionGreenEllie ChownsNorth HerefordshireGreenCarla DenyerBristol CentralGreenAdrian RamsayWaveney ValleyGreenShockat AdamLeicester SouthIndependentJeremy CorbynIslington NorthIndependentAdnan HussainBlackburnIndependentAyoub KhanBirmingham Perry BarrIndependentIqbal MohamedDewsbury and BatleyIndependentLee AndersonAshfieldReform UKNigel FarageClactonReform UKRupert LoweGreat YarmouthReform UKJames McMurdockSouth Basildon and East ThurrockReform UKRichard TiceBoston and SkegnessReform UK2024 (b)George GallowayRochdaleWorkers Party of Britain2019Caroline LucasBrighton PavilionGreen2017Caroline LucasBrighton PavilionGreen2015Douglas CarswellClactonUK Independence PartyCaroline LucasBrighton Pavilion Green2014 (b)Mark Reckless11Rochester and StroodUK Independence Party2014 (b)Douglas Carswell11ClactonUK Independence Party2012 (b)George GallowayBradford WestRespect Party2010Caroline LucasBrighton PavilionGreen2006 (b)Dai Davies10Blaenau GwentIndependent2005Richard Taylor7Wyre ForestIndependent Kidderminster Hospital and Health ConcernPeter Law8Blaenau GwentIndependentGeorge Galloway9Bethnal Green and BowRESPECT The Unity Coalition2001Richard Taylor7Wyre ForestIndependent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern1997Martin Bell6TattonIndependentFeb 1974Dick Taverne4LincolnDemocratic LabourEddie Milne5BlythIndependent Labour1973 (b)Dick Taverne4LincolnDemocratic Labour1970S. O. Davies3Merthyr TydfilIndependent Labour1959David Robertson2Caithness and SutherlandIndependent Conservative1950Capt. John MacLeod1Ross and CromartyIndependent Liberal

(b) = by-election

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Davies had been Peter Law's electoral agent in the general election. Both Carswell and Reckless were elected at the 2010 general election for the Conservative party, but defected to UKIP and triggered by-elections.

1919–1950 ElectionMember of ParliamentConstituencyParty/Description1946 (b)James CarmichaelGlasgow BridgetonIndependent Labour Party1945Ernest MillingtonChelmsfordCommon Wealth PartyWillie GallacherWest FifeCommunist Party of Great BritainPhil PiratinMile EndCommunist Party of Great BritainWilliam BrownRugbyIndependentWilson HarrisCambridge UniversityIndependentA. P. HerbertOxford UniversityIndependentDenis KendallGranthamIndependentKenneth LindsayCombined English UniversitiesIndependentErnest Graham-LittleLondon UniversityIndependentJohn Boyd OrrCombined Scottish UniversitiesIndependentEleanor RathboneCombined English UniversitiesIndependentArthur SalterUniversity of OxfordIndependentDaniel LipsonCheltenhamIndependent ConservativeJohn MackieGallowayIndependent UnionistDenis PrittHammersmith NorthIndependent LabourJames MaxtonGlasgow BridgetonIndependent Labour PartyCampbell StephenGlasgow CamlachieIndependent Labour PartyJohn McGovernGlasgow ShettlestonIndependent Labour PartyMurdo MacdonaldInvernessIndependent LiberalCapt. John MacLeodRoss and CromartyIndependent LiberalVernon BartlettBridgwaterIndependent ProgressiveJohn AndersonCombined Scottish UniversitiesNationalAndrew DuncanCity of LondonNational1945 (b)Ernest MillingtonChelmsfordCommon Wealth Party1945 (b)John Boyd OrrCombined Scottish UniversitiesIndependent1944 (b)Hugh LawsonSkiptonCommon Wealth Party1944 (b)Charles WhiteWest DerbyshireIndependent1943 (b)John LoverseedEddisburyCommon Wealth Party1942 (b)William John BrownRugbyIndependent1942 (b)Tom DribergMaldonIndependent1942 (b)Denis KendallGranthamIndependent1942 (b)James GriggCardiff EastNational1942 (b)George ReakesWallaseyIndependent1940 (b)Andrew DuncanCity of LondonNational1940 (b)Cuthbert HeadlamNewcastle NorthIndependent Conservative1940 (b)John ReithSouthamptonNational1940 (b)Archibald HillCambridge UniversityIndependent Conservative1938 (b)Vernon BartlettBridgwaterIndependent Progressive1938 (b)John AndersonCombined Scottish UniversitiesNational1937 (b)Arthur SalterOxford UniversityIndependent1937 (b)Daniel LipsonCheltenhamIndependent Conservative1937 (b)Edmund HarveyCombined English UniversitiesIndependent Progressive1935Willie GallacherWest FifeCommunist Party of Great BritainA. P. HerbertUniversity of OxfordIndependentEleanor RathboneCombined English UniversitiesIndependentGeorge BuchananGlasgow GorbalsIndependent Labour PartyJames MaxtonGlasgow BridgetonIndependent Labour PartyJohn McGovernGlasgow ShettlestonIndependent Labour PartyCampbell StephenGlasgow CamlachieIndependent Labour PartyAustin HopkinsonMossleyNational IndependentSir Ernest Graham-LittleLondon UniversityNational IndependentIvor GuestBreconshire and RadnorshireNational Independent1931Eleanor RathboneCombined English UniversitiesIndependentJosiah Wedgwood ¹Newcastle-under-LymeIndependent LabourGeorge Buchanan ¹Glasgow GorbalsIndependent Labour PartyDavid Kirkwood ¹Dumbarton BurghsIndependent Labour PartyJames Maxton ¹Glasgow BridgetonIndependent Labour PartyJohn McGovern ¹Glasgow ShettlestonIndependent Labour PartyRichard Wallhead ¹Merthyr TydfilIndependent Labour PartyDavid Lloyd GeorgeCaernarvonIndependent LiberalGwilym Lloyd GeorgePembrokeshireIndependent LiberalMegan Lloyd GeorgeAngleseyIndependent LiberalGoronwy OwenCaernarvonshireIndependent LiberalGordon CampbellBurnleyNationalIan HorobinSouthwark CentralNationalJoseph LeckieWalsallNationalAustin HopkinsonMossleyNational IndependentErnest Graham-LittleLondon UniversityNational Independent1930 (b)Ernest TaylorPaddington SouthEmpire Free Trade Crusade1929Ernest Graham-LittleLondon UniversityIndependentRobert NewmanExeterIndependentEleanor RathboneCombined English UniversitiesIndependentThomas RobinsonStretfordIndependentNeil Maclean ²Glasgow GovanIndependent LabourT. P. O'ConnorLiverpool ScotlandNationalist Party (Ireland)Edwin ScrymgeourDundeeScottish Prohibition Party1924Shapurji SaklatvalaBattersea NorthCommunist Party of Great BritainWinston ChurchillEppingConstitutionalistHugh EdwardsAccringtonConstitutionalistAbraham EnglandHeywood and RadcliffeConstitutionalistHamar GreenwoodWalthamstow EastConstitutionalistAlgernon MoreingCamborneConstitutionalistThomas RobinsonStretfordConstitutionalistJohn WardStokeConstitutionalistAustin HopkinsonMossleyIndependentErnest Graham-LittleLondon UniversityIndependentT. P. O'ConnorLiverpool ScotlandNationalist Party (Ireland)Edwin ScrymgeourDundeeScottish Prohibition Party1923George M. L. DaviesUniversity of WalesChristian PacifistAustin HopkinsonMossleyIndependentLeif JonesCamborneIndependent LiberalOswald MosleyHarrowIndependentRhys Hopkin MorrisCardiganshireIndependent LiberalThomas Power O'ConnorLiverpool ScotlandNationalist Party (Ireland)Edwin ScrymgeourDundeeScottish Prohibition Party1922Walton NewboldMotherwellCommunist Party of Great BritainGeorge JarrettDartfordConstitutionalistAustin HopkinsonMossleyIndependentOswald MosleyHarrowIndependentGeorge Henry RobertsNorwichIndependentHarry BeckerRichmondIndependent ConservativeJames Malcolm Monteith ErskineWestminster St George'sIndependent ConservativeGordon Hall CaineEast DorsetIndependent ConservativeOwen ThomasAngleseyIndependent LabourJ. R. M. ButlerCambridge UniversityIndependent LiberalT. P. O'ConnorLiverpool ScotlandNationalist Party (Ireland)Edwin ScrymgeourDundeeScottish Prohibition Party1921 (b)Murray SueterHertfordAnti-Waste League and Independent1921 (b)James Malcolm Monteith ErskineWestminster St George'sIndependent Anti-Waste1921 (b)Thomas Andrew PolsonDoverIndependent1920 (b)Charles Vere Ferrers TownshendThe WrekinIndependent1920 (b)Charles PalmerThe WrekinIndependent

(b) = by-election

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

1832–1918