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In 2022, Alain Rayes, MP for the Quebec riding of Richmond—Arthabaska, resigned from the Conservative caucus to sit as an independent, [10] becoming the second independent MP of the 44th Parliament. Independent politicians have on occasion held considerable sway in the House of Commons of Canada in recent years, as Canada has been governed by ...
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 ...
However, in the December 2020 elections, after breaking away from the party to run as independent candidate, he polled 12,805 votes, defeating his main opponent, his former party's Philip Ofori-Asante, who secured 10,798 votes. [13] [14] Amoako became the only independent candidate to win in the 2020 parliamentary elections.
To run for a party’s nomination, or as an independent, the candidate cannot have been “associated” with another party for a year before submitting paperwork to run for office.
Third-party and independent members of the United States Congress are generally rare. Although the Republican and Democratic parties have dominated U.S. politics in a two-party system since 1856, some independents and members of other political parties have also been elected to the House of Representatives or Senate, or changed their party affiliation during their term.
After leaving the Reclaim Party in December 2023, Bridgen sat as an independent MP for the rest of the term of the 2019 Parliament, announcing his decision to run as an independent for his constituency of North West Leicestershire at the 2024 United Kingdom general election, where he lost his seat and deposit.
Kevin Vuong MP (born c. 1989) [1] is a Canadian politician who is the member of Parliament (MP) for Spadina—Fort York.Nominated in the 2021 federal election as a Liberal candidate, he was dropped by the party two days before the election over his failure to disclose a 2019 charge for sexual assault that was later withdrawn.
This article lists third party and independent candidates, also jointly known as minor candidates, associated with the 2024 United States presidential election. "Third party" is a term commonly used in the United States in reference to political parties other than the Democratic and Republican parties.