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This article lists election results of independent candidates in UK elections.

Summary of general election performance

Year	Number of Candidates	Total votes	Average votes per candidate	% UK vote	Change (percentage points)	Number of MPs

Election results

1874 general election

Description		Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position
	Ind. Nationalist	Cork City	John Mitchel	511	8.0	5

1880 general election

Description		Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position
	Independent	Chester	Frederick Lewis Malgarini	16
	Independent	Stoke-on-Trent	Edward Kenealy	1,091

1885 general election

	Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position
Independent	Argyll	W. Mackinnon	2,856	41.6	2
Independent	Marylebone West	Joseph Diggle	101	1.8	4
Independent	North Antrim	John Pinkerton	1,915	26.2	3
Ind. Conservative	Bolton	Henry Marriott Richardson	1,191		5
Ind. Conservative	Kilmarnock Burghs	John Steven Storr	55	0.6	4
Ind. Conservative	Liverpool Scotland	M. N. Woodard	1,474	35.1	2
Ind. Conservative	Petersfield	D. Henty	179	2.6	3
Lib-Lab	Chesterfield	James Haslam	1,907	25.6	3
Lib-Lab	Jarrow	James Johnston	1,731	23.3	2
Lib-Lab	Kingston-upon-Hull Central	N. B. Billamy	735	8.2	3
Lib-Lab	Rhondda	William Abraham	3,859	56.3	1

6 independents, plus 2 ind nat and 6 ind con; many ind lib to list separately

1886 general election

Description		Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position
	Independent Liberal	Cricklade	John Bennett	1,247	19.1	3
	Ind. Liberal Unionist	Camberwell North	William Pirie Duff	246	4.6	3

Plus 1 more ind liberal unionists

1892 general election

	Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position
Independent	Birmingham West	J. W. Mahony	31	0.4	3
Independent	Perth	James Woollen	907	26.1	3
Ind. Conservative	Banffshire	Maltman Barry	1,424	38.3	2
Independent Labour	Battersea	John Burns	5,616	58.1	1
Independent Labour	Bradford West	Ben Tillett	2,749	30.2	3
Independent Labour	Hoxton	A. K. Donald	19	0.3	3
Independent Labour	Middlesbrough	Joseph Havelock Wilson	4,691	38.8	1
Independent Labour	Peckham	Ben Ellis	95	1.2	3
Independent Labour	West Ham South	Keir Hardie	5,268	56.6	1
Independent Liberal	Birmingham East	D. S. Collin	296	3.6	3
Independent Liberal	Glasgow Camlachie	Hugh Watt	179	2.4	4
Independent Liberal	Kincardineshire	Johnston Stephen	1,376	36.0	2

3 independents, plus 2 ind nat, 6 ind lib, 4 ind con and 9 ind lab

1895 general election

	Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position
Independent Labour	Aberdeen North	John Lincoln Mahon	608		2
Independent Labour	Peckham	Ben Ellis	95	1.2	3
Independent Liberal	Camberwell North	Nelson P. Palmer	32	0.4	3
Independent Liberal	Kennington	W. Wightman	730	10.1	3
Independent Liberal	Northampton	J. M. Robertson
Lib-Lab	Merthyr	Allen Upward	659	2.6	4
Lib-Lab	Swansea District	G. H. Hedley	2,018	26.1	2
Ind. Nationalist	South Tyrone	Thomas Shillington	3,046	48.5	2

2 independents, plus 2 ind lib-lab and 3 ind lib

1900 general election

	Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position
Independent Labour	Gower	John Hodge	3,853	47.4	2
Independent Liberal	Caithness	Gavin Brown Clark	673	21.3	3
Independent Liberal	Caithness	F. C. Auld	141	4.5	4
Independent Liberal	Osgoldcross	John Austin	5,609	65.0	1
Ind. Liberal Unionist	Belfast North	T. Harrison	1,855		2
Ind. Nationalist	Cork City	Jeremiah Charles Blake	2,235	14.4	3
Ind. Nationalist	Cork City	Maurice Healy	1,985	12.8	4
Ind. Nationalist	South Louth	Edward Charles Thompson	1,233	56.9	1
Ind. Nationalist	South Meath	John Laurence Carew			1
Ind. Nationalist	South Tyrone	Edward Charles Thompson	2,409	46.0	2
Ind. Unionist	North Armagh	James Orr	2,468	40.8	2
Ind. Unionist	South Antrim	Samuel Lawther	3,081	45.6	2

3 independents, plus 3 ind lib, 7 ind con and 18 ind nat

1906 general election

	Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position
Independent	Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities	John Strachey	2,310	32.1	2
Independent	Mid Lanarkshire	A. S. Gibson	758	6.1	3
Ind. Conservative	Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities	W. R. Smith	1,240		3
Ind. Conservative	Lambeth North	Frederick William Horner	108	2.2	4
Independent Labour	Accrington	S. M. Holden	619	4.9	3
Independent Labour	Chester-le-Street	John Wilkinson Taylor			1
Independent Labour	Hammersmith	George Belt	885	8.4	3
Independent Labour	Middlesbrough	George Lansbury	1,484	8.4	3
Independent Labour	Rochdale	Samuel George Hobson	2,506	19.5	3
Independent Liberal	Hackney South	W. Riley	804	7.4	3
Independent Liberal	Lambeth North	Dadabhai Naoroji	733	14.9	3
Ind. Liberal Unionist	Belfast West	Alexander Carlisle	153	1.8	3
Ind. Nationalist	East Kerry	Eugene O'Sullivan	2,131	49.4	2
Ind. Unionist	Belfast South	Thomas Henry Sloan	4,450		1
Ind. Unionist	Glasgow Tradeston	A. Rosenthal	245	2.8	3
Ind. Unionist	North Down	A. A. Adams	2,603		2
Ind. Unionist	Paddington North	Henry Burdett	817	11.6	3

3 independents, plus 3 ind lib, 3 ind nat, 7 ind lab, 9 ind unionist and 9 ind con

January 1910 general election

	Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position
Ind. Conservative	Sunderland	Samuel Storey
Independent Labour	Ashton-under-Lyne	W. Gee	413	5.0	3
Independent Labour	Montrose Burghs	Joseph Burgess	1,888	26.6	2
Independent Liberal	Glasgow Tradeston	Archibald Cameron Corbett	2,966		1
Independent Liberal	Hackney South	R. H. Roberts	1,946	19.0	3
Independent Liberal	Liverpool Walton	Harold Cox	481		3
Independent Liberal	Preston	Harold Cox	2,704	4.4	5
Ind. Nationalist	Belfast West	Patrick J. Magee	75	0.9	3
Ind. Nationalist	Cork City	Edward Fitzgerald	2,061	10.8	5
Ind. Nationalist	East Kerry	Eugene O'Sullivan	2,643	55.1	1
Ind. Nationalist	Mid Tyrone	George Murnaghan	1,244	21.5	3
Ind. Nationalist	North Westmeath	Laurence Ginnell			1
Ind. Nationalist	South Monaghan	John McKean			1
Ind. Unionist	Belfast South	Thomas Henry Sloan	3,553		2

3 ind lib, 6 ind lab, 4 ind con, 10 ind nat

December 1910 general election

	Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position
Ind. Conservative	Caithness	Archibald Macleod	87	3.1	2
Ind. Conservative	Canterbury	Francis Bennett-Goldney			1
Independent Labour	Kennington	Victor Grayson	408	5.5	3
Independent Liberal	Hackney South	R. H. Roberts	1,946	19.0	3
Ind. Nationalist	North Westmeath	Laurence Ginnell			1
Ind. Nationalist	South Monaghan	John McKean			1
Ind. Nationalist	South Tyrone	John Skeffington	2,602	11.6	3
Ind. Unionist	Belfast South	Thomas Henry Sloan	2,722		2
Women's Suffrage	Glasgow Camlachie	William Julius Mirlees	35	0.4	4

2 ind, plus 4 ind nat, 1 ind lib, 4 ind lab, 4 ind con

1918 general election

	Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position
Independent	Aberdeen South	J. Robertson Watson	2,868		3
Independent	Bootle	Edmund Cathery	7,235	37.0	2
Independent	Birmingham Handsworth	Norman Tiptaft	4,697	22.1	2
Independent	Brentford and Chiswick	Ray Strachey	1,263		3
Independent	Caithness and Sutherland	Francis John Robertson	4,036	37.4	2
Independent	Cambridge University	William Cecil Dampier Whetham	1,220	21.1	3
Independent	Combined Scottish Universities	William Robert Smith	850		5
Independent	Glasgow Bridgeton	Eunice Murray	991		3
Independent	Hackney South	Horatio Bottomley	11,145	79.7	1
Independent	Islington East	Frederick Alfred Wickhart	147	0.8	5
Independent	Leeds West	Joseph Henry Chapman	1,138	5.6	3
Independent	London University	A. A. Somerville	885	13.1	3
Independent	London University	Wilmot Herringham	715	10.6	4
Independent	London University	C. L. Nordon		3.1	5
Independent	Nottingham East	Joseph N. Dennis Brookes	1,083	14.9	3
Independent	South Down	Alexander Fisher	436	2.9	3
Independent	Spelthorne	A. W. Leonard	1,143	7.2	3
Independent	Tynemouth	Henry Gregg	2,495	14.8	4
Ind. Conservative	Great Grimsby	James William Eason	2,791	10.9	3
Ind. Conservative	Motherwell	Hugh Ferguson	1,923	10.8	4
Ind. Conservative	Peckham	Collingwood Hughes	4,550	28.7	2
Independent Labour	Belfast Pottinger	James Henry Bennett	659	5.5	4
Independent Labour	Birmingham Handsworth	Harry Joseph Odell	4,576	21.5	3
Independent Labour	Caernarvonshire	Robert Thomas Jones	8,145		2
Independent Labour	Glasgow Kelvingrove	Walter Graham Leachman	5,012	23.6	2
Independent Labour	Paddington North	Herbert Bundy	1,275	7.4	5
Independent Labour	Paddington North	Arthur Strauss	774	4.5	6
Independent Labour	Penistone	Frederick William Southern	4,556	24.4	3
Independent Labour	Sheffield Central	Alfred James Bailey	5,959	37.3	2
Independent Labour	Tynemouth	George Harold Humphrey	2,566	15.2	3
Independent Labour	Windsor	C. S. Edgerly	4,448	30.6	2
Independent Lab & Agric	Grantham	William Bilton Harris	1,927	9.4	3
Independent Liberal	Caernarvonshire	Ellis William Davies	4,937		3
Independent Liberal	Hanley	R. L. Outhwaite	2,703	13.6	3
Independent Liberal	Leeds West	David Thomas Barnes	619	3.0	4
Ind. Nationalist	Dublin College Green	Joseph Coghlan Briscoe	2,853	22.8	2
Ind. Nationalist	Dublin St James's	John Saturnus Kelly	1,556	19.9	2
Ind. Nationalist	Dublin St Patrick's	James Joseph Kelly	312		3
Ind. Nationalist	South Tyrone	John Skeffington	2,602		3
Ind. Nationalist	University of Dublin	Stephen Gwynn	257	8.7	4
Ind. Nationalist	Westmeath	Walter Nugent	603		3
Independent Progressive	Chelsea	Emily Frost Phipps	2,419	20.9	2
Independent Progressive	East Fife	W. P. Morgan	591	3.6	3
Ind. Unionist	Belfast Ormeau	William Stewart	4,833	38.3	2
Ind. Unionist	Belfast St Anne's	William Hugh Alexander	1,752	14.3	2
Ind. Unionist	North Down	John Alexander Davidson	2,153	19.0	2
Ind. Unionist	University of Dublin	Robert Henry Woods	793	26.8	2

42 ind, plus 1 ind lab + agric, 3 ind prog, 6 ind nat, 4 ind dem, 8 ind lib, 17 ind con, 26 ind NFDSS (to list separately), 29 ind lab, 1 coalition ind

Woods was elected by taking second place in a two seat constituency.

1922 general election

	Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position
Independent	Birmingham Handsworth	Norman Tiptaft	12,790	40.4	2
Independent	Bootle	J. E. Burke	425	1.8	3
Independent	Brentford and Chiswick	Ray Strachey	7,804		2
Independent	Combined English Universities	J. Strong	571	19.4	3
Independent	Westminster Abbey	Sydney Drury-Lowe	1,950	10.8	3
Independent Anti-Socialist	Merthyr	Richard Mathias	15,552	47.0	2
Independent Communist	Glasgow Gorbals	John Maclean	4,027		3
Ind. Conservative	Combined English Universities	W. B. Faraday	141	4.8	5
Ind. Conservative	Combined English Universities	Sidney Lawrence	90	3.1	6
Ind. Conservative	Isle of Wight	Arthur C. T. Veasey	7,061	21.0	2
Ind. Conservative	Motherwell	Hugh Ferguson	7,214	29.1	2
Independent Liberal	Berwick and Haddington	John Deans Hope	3,300		4
Independent Liberal	Cambridge University	James Ramsay Montagu Butler	3,453	39.9	2
Independent Liberal	Paddington North	John W. A. Jennings	6,444	37.4	2
Ind. Unionist	Londonderry	Edmund Loftus MacNaghten	9,861	24.3	2

Butler was elected by taking second place in a two-seat constituency

15 ind, plus 3 ind lib, 4 ind lab

1923 general election

	Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position
Independent	Birmingham Duddeston	A. Ford	634	3.2	3
Independent	Brentford and Chiswick	Ray Strachey	4,828		2
Independent	Harrow	Oswald Mosley	14,079	59.9	1
Independent	Mossley	Austin Hopkinson	15,953	58.4	1
Ind. Conservative	Derby	Thomas Clifford Newbold	9,772	11.4	5
Independent Labour	Nottingham South	Henry Mills	5,176	24.8	2
Independent Labour	Paisley	D. D. Cormack	3,685	12.6	4
Independent Labour	Western Isles	Hugh McCowan	2,011	23.5	3
Independent Labour	West Fife	Philip Hodge	6,459	34.6	2
Independent Liberal	Camborne	Leifchild Leif-Jones	11,794	59.3	1
Independent Liberal	Cambridge University	James Ramsay Montagu Butler	3,248	31.5	3
Independent Liberal	Cardiganshire	Rhys Hopkin Morris	12,469	46.9	1
Independent Liberal	University of Wales	John Edwards	467	29.2	3
Ind. Unionist	Belfast North	Tommy Henderson	15,171	47.5	2

6 ind, plus 4 ind lab, 3 ind lib, 1 ind con

1924 general election

	Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position
Independent	London University	Ernest Graham-Little	3,202	37.1	1
Independent	Mossley	Austin Hopkinson	15,435	49.2	1
Independent	Oxford University	Gilbert Murray	2,643	30.4	3
Independent Liberal	Cambridge University	James Ramsay Montagu Butler	3,241	27.4	3
Ind. Unionist	Londonderry	William Galt	517	1.4	3

7 ind, plus 1 ind lab, 1 ind lib

1929 general election

	Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position
Independent	Belfast North	David Wilson	6,059	13.5	3
Independent	Camborne	J. C. Roberts	1,976	6.3	4
Independent	Combined English Universities	Eleanor Rathbone	3,331	33.3	2
Independent	Harrow	W. J. Sholl	1,965	3.7	4
Independent	Hertford	Noel Pemberton Billing	10,149	29.6	2
Independent	London University	Ernest Graham-Little	5,869	53.5	1
Independent	Mossley	Austin Hopkinson	14,267	33.9	2
Independent	Stretford	Thomas Robinson	25,799	58.6	1
Independent	Wednesbury	Thomas Gee	61	0.1	4
Ind. Conservative	Colchester	C. C. Gray	172	0.5	4
Ind. Conservative	Eastbourne	P. E. Hurst	2,277	6.2	4
Ind. Conservative	Exeter	Robert Newman	946	3.1	3
Ind. Conservative	Harwich	J. Elliot	16,642	49.5	1
Ind. Conservative	Kensington South	Rayner Goddard	6,354	15.1	3
Ind. Conservative	Portsmouth South	Frank John Privett	9,505	23.2	3
Independent Labour	Birmingham Moseley	G. Bridgen	675	1.1	4
Independent Labour	Caithness and Sutherland	Charles Grant Oman	1,711	9.4	3
Independent Labour	Glasgow Govan	Neil Maclean	17,384	57.7	1
Independent Labour	Preston	S. M. Holden	2,111	1.6	5
Independent Liberal	Bristol North	Frederick Guest	12,932	33.8	2
Independent Liberal	Gateshead	John Leonard Watson	3,688	6.8	4
Independent Liberal	Stockport	Charles Royle	8,355	7.4	5
Independent Protestant	Stirling and Falkirk	A. Ratcliffe	6,902	21.3	3
Ind. Republican	Belfast West	Frank MacDermot	24,177	42.1	2
Ind. Unionist	Belfast South	Philip James Woods	14,148	37.1	2
Ind. Unionist	Belfast North	Tommy Henderson	10,909	24.4	2

11 ind, plus 8 ind con, 4 ind lab and 2 ind lib

Rathbone was elected by taking second place in a two-seat constituency.

1931 general election

	Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position
Independent	Birmingham Aston	John Strachey	3,236	10.0	3
Independent	Combined English Universities	Eleanor Rathbone	5,096	37.2	1
Independent	Pontypridd	William Lovell	466	1.3	4
Independent	Uxbridge	Reginald Bridgeman	2,358	4.7	3
Independent Agricultural	Isle of Ely	J. A. Whitehead	6,993	21.8	2
Independent Labour	Glasgow Hillhead	C. A. O'Donnell	7,539	26.2	2
Independent Labour	Peckham	Hubert Beaumont	1,350	4.0	4
Independent Labour	Pontypridd	Thomas Isaac Mardy Jones	1,110	3.0	3
Independent Labour	Warwick and Leamington	Jim Garton	9,261	19.4	2
Independent Labour	Wolverhampton West	William Brown	17,090	39.5	2
Independent Liberal	Halifax	Frank Sykes	2,578	4.6	3
Ind. Nationalist	London University	Archibald Church	3,134	27.0	2
Ind. Nationalist	Mossley	Austin Hopkinson	17,017	36.7	1
National	London University	Ernest Graham-Little	8,461	73.0	1

7 ind, plus 2 ind lab

1935 general election

	Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position
Independent	Camberwell North	Thomas Frederick Rhodes Disher	451	2.5	3
Independent	Combined English Universities	Eleanor Rathbone	unopposed	N/A	1
Independent	Combined Scottish Universities	Andrew Dewar Gibb	3,865		4
Independent	Oxford University	A. P. Herbert	3,390	22.2	2
Ind. Conservative	Shipley	James Lockwood	6,025	13.5	4
Independent Labour	Wolverhampton West	William Brown	14,867	41.4	2
Independent Liberal	Manchester Rusholme	Percy McDougall	2,525	8.0	3
Independent Progressive	Aldershot	Gerald Bailey	6,421	26.6	2
Ind. Republican	Armagh	Charles McGleenan	16,284	32.4	2
Ind. Republican	Belfast West	Charles Leddy	20,313	37.4	2
Ind. Republican	Down	Patrick O'Hagan	20,236	13.3	3
Independent Social Credit	Bradford North	Reginald Kenney	4,684	11.7	3
National	London University	Ernest Graham-Little	8,958	69.6	1
National	Mossley	Austin Hopkinson	24,569	52.3	1

8 ind, plus 2 ind con

Herbert was elected by taking second place in a two-seat constituency.

1945 general election

Other candidates in Abingdon, Wallasey, West Derbyshire, Hartlepool, Spennymoor, West Ham Silvertown, West Ham Stratford, Hornchurch, Saffron Walden, Cheltenham, Forest of Dean, Hertford, Orpington, Tonbridge, Eccles, Manchester Moss Side, Waterloo, Grantham, Hammersmith N, Lewisham E, Paddington N, St Marylebone, St Pancras N, Putney & Southfields, Woolwich E, Edmonton, King's Lynn, S Norfolk, Northampton, Kettering, Ludlow, Burslem, Wednesbury, Eastbourne, Birmingham Handsworth, Nuneaton, Rugby, Westmorland, Chippenham, Batley & Morley, Galloway, Glasgow C, Paisley

	Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position
Independent	Birmingham Handsworth	Norman Tiptaft	5,112	12.4	3
Independent	Cambridge University	Henry Wilson Harris	3,574	16.2	2
Independent	Cambridge University	Charles Hill	2,238	10.1	4
Independent	Chichester	M. H. Woodard	625	1.1	4
Independent	Combined English Universities	A. R. Foxall	1,105	5.3	6
Independent	Combined English Universities	Kenneth Martin Lindsay	1,923	9.2	2
Independent	Combined English Universities	Eleanor Rathbone	11,176	53.3	1
Independent	Combined English Universities	J. H. Richardson	1,124	5.3	5
Independent	Combined Scottish Universities	John Boyd Orr	10,685	32.6	2
Independent	Glasgow Shettleston	I. Queen	186	0.6	5
Independent	Mossley	Austin Hopkinson	4,671	8.1	4
Independent	Oxford University	Arthur Salter	6,771	44.2	1
Independent	Oxford University	A. P. Herbert	5,136	33.5	2
Independent	Queen's University of Belfast	Thomas Cusack	728	27.5	2
Independent	The Hartlepools	Harry Lane	390	1.0	4
Ind. Conservative	Blackpool North	Arthur Talbot	1,635	3.2	4
Independent Labour	Belfast West	Jack Beattie	30,787	53.5	1
Independent Labour	Combined English Universities	S. Wormald	3,212	15.3	3
Independent Anti-Socialist	Merthyr	S. Jennings	5,693	18.6	2
Independent Labour	North Cornwall	John Hazlewood Worrall	626	1.8	3
Independent Labour	Nottingham East	George Twells	1,072	3.6	4
Independent Liberal	Louth, Lincolnshire	Samuel Randolph Charlesworth	233	0.7	4
Independent Liberal	New Forest and Christchurch	J. W. Howlett	8,299	13.2	3
Independent Liberal	Ross and Cromarty	John MacLeod	10,061	62.8	1
Ind. Nationalist	Camberwell North	Thomas Frederick Rhodes Disher	794	8.5	3
Ind. Nationalist	Wrexham	John Rathbone Hayes-Jones	430	0.9	4
Independent Progressive	Bridgwater	Vernon Bartlett	17,937	45.8	1
Independent Progressive	Hastings	Sydney Muller Parkman	2,564	9.4	3
Independent Progressive	Cambridge University	J. B. Priestley	5,041	22.8	3
Independent Progressive	London University	Mary Danvers Stocks	7,469	49.5	2
Ind. Unionist	Down	James Brown	22,163	19.1	4
Ind. Unionist	Down	James Little	46,732	40.4	1
National	Cambridge University	E. L. Howard-Williams	1,036	4.7	5
National	Combined English Universities	E. C. Arden	2,433	11.6	4
National	London University	Ernest Graham-Little	7,618	50.5	1
National	Edinburgh Central	Hume Sleigh	232	1.2	4
National	Ormskirk	Stephen King-Hall	11,848	18.2	3
National	Penrith and Cockermouth	T. Mitchell	2,204	9.1	4
National	Plymouth Devonport	Leslie Hore-Belisha	11,382	45.9	2

38 ind, plus 4 ind nat, 3 ind lib, 7 ind prog, 6 ind con, 7 ind lab and 13 ind national

Harris, Herbert and Lindsay were elected by taking second place in a two-seat constituency, and Orr by taking second in a three-seat constituency.

1950 general election

	Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position
Ind. Conservative	Southampton Itchen	William Craven-Ellis	1,380	2.5	3
Independent Labour	Hexham	Alexander Hancock	4,154	14.4	2
National	Edinburgh Central	Hume Sleigh	283	0.8	5
Scottish Home Rule	Argyllshire	M. S. McP. Holt	490	1.7	3