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Then, a decade ago, my political perspective changed, and I moved from R, the Republican Party, to my current status as an NPA, an independent voter with “no party affiliation.”
v. t. e. In politics of the United States, party switching is any change in party affiliation of a partisan public figure, usually one who holds an elected office. Use of the term "party switch" can also connote a transfer of holding power in an elected governmental body from one party to another.
An independent voter, often also called an unaffiliated voter or non-affiliated voter in the United States, is a voter who does not align themselves with a political party.An independent is variously defined as a voter who votes for candidates on issues rather than on the basis of a political ideology or partisanship; [1] a voter who does not have long-standing loyalty to, or identification ...
He was a Republican, then a Democrat (1932-1947), then a Progressive (1947-1953) 1952 – Wayne Morse, U.S. Senator from Oregon (1945–1969), changed from Republican to Independent in 1952 [405] and Independent to Democrat on February 17, 1955 [406] 1974 – D. French Slaughter Jr., while serving in the Virginia House of Delegates became an ...
December 19, 2019. 116th. Democratic. Republican. Van Drew switched parties in the wake of the 2019 impeachment vote, which he was not in favor of. Paul Mitchell. Michigan. 10th. December 14, 2020.
Republican. Independent. Caucused with the Democrats after becoming an independent, giving Democrats a majority in the US Senate. His switch became the only time in US history that a party switch resulted in a change of party control of the Senate. [29][30] Robert M. La Follette Jr.
James Merrill Jeffords (May 11, 1934 – August 18, 2014) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. senator from Vermont. Sworn into the Senate in 1989, he served as a Republican until 2001, when he left the party to become an independent and began caucusing with the Democrats. Jeffords retired from the Senate in 2007.
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.