In the 1935 general election, just 17 Liberal MPs were elected, along with Lloyd George and three followers as " independent Liberals ".

The party is keen to maintain its independent identity however, and argues that the need for a modern Liberal force in British politics has never been greater.

The local Country and Liberal Party members decided to form an independent " Country Liberal Party " ( CLP ) to field candidates for the Legislative Council in 1974.

Also in 1974, the Northern Territory members of the party joined with its Liberal party members to form the independent Country Liberal Party.

* In 1994, the year of the centenary of Menzies ' birth, the Menzies Research Centre was created as an independent public policy think tank associated with the Liberal Party.

When Gladstone retired after the defeat of the second Home Rule Bill in 1894, the Welsh Liberal members chose him to serve on a deputation to William Harcourt to press for specific assurances on Welsh issues ; when those were not provided, they resolved to take independent action if the government did not bring a bill for disestablishment.

When Fraser became Liberal leader in 1975, Gorton resigned from the party, sat as an independent, and openly campaigned against Fraser, whom he detested.

To do so, the ALP would have to win Field's and Bunton's seats, and one seat in each territory, and have the second ACT seat fall to either a Labor candidate or an independent, former Liberal Prime Minister John Gorton, now estranged from his party.

The Liberal Party made a similar commitment, while independent candidate Nick Xenophon announced his intention to introduce tariff-based legislation as " a matter of urgency ".

The most recent elections were in May 2008, following which the council is made up of eight Conservatives, three Liberal Democrats, two members of the Labour Party and three independent councillors.

Pauline Hanson founded the party after being elected as an independent due to her disendorsement as the preselected Liberal Party candidate for the Australian House of Representatives.

The city of Liberal is considered governmentally independent and is excluded from the census figures for the townships.

Since the last election ( 2011 ) and subsequent by-elections eleven councillors are members of the Conservative Party two are from the Liberal Democrats and two are independent.

In 1995, Fort Lewis College joined the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges, and in 2002, the College became independent of the Colorado State University system, and formed its own governing Board of Trustees.

In parliament he supported the Liberal party, but with independent views.

When Martin Bell, a well-known BBC war correspondent, announced he would stand as an independent candidate in Tatton, the Labour and Liberal Democrat candidates for the area stood down in order to give Bell a clear run against Hamilton.

Some but not all Irish Liberal candidates in the 1852 election had pledged themselves to form an independent party in Parliament.

Previously affiliated with the Liberal Party of Canada, the British Columbia Liberal Party has been independent of its federal counterpart since the late 1980s and subsequently displaced the British Columbia Social Credit Party as the province's de facto liberal-conservative coalition opposed to the social democratic, pro-union British Columbia New Democratic Party.

By-elections and defections in 2005 altered the distribution of seats within the council with Labour holding 46 seats, Conservatives holding 40, Liberal Democrats holding 30, the People's Justice Party holding 2 and independent councillors holding a further 2.

The old members of the dissolved Liberal party proclaimed that Korea had been an independent since the establishment of the Yi Dynasty, and that no other countries could interfere with its rights and “ principle of freedom .” Speeches were given in which Fukuda Hideko stated she was “ welcomed with open arms ” as people greatly respected her and what she was trying to accomplish.

In severe disagreement with the emerging French Canadian Liberal Party, he became an independent Member of Parliament.

Nehru began to be frequently embarrassed by her ruthlessness and disregard for parliamentary tradition, and was " hurt " by what he saw as an assertiveness with no purpose other than to stake out an identity independent of her father.

Kyrgyzstan's independent political parties competed in the 1996 parliamentary elections.

Powerful families also still play an independent role in mobilizing votes for both local and parliamentary elections.

The politics of Saint Kitts and Nevis takes place in the framework of an independent federal parliamentary democratic Commonwealth Realm with Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state, represented in St. Kitts and Nevis by a governor-general.

Politics of Saint Lucia takes place in the framework of an independent parliamentary democratic Commonwealth realm with Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state, represented by a Governor General, who acts on the advice of the prime minister and the cabinet.

Politics of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines takes place in the framework of an independent parliamentary democratic Commonwealth Realm with Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state, represented by a Governor General, who acts on the advice of the prime minister and the cabinet.

Shortly after becoming independent in 1991, Ukraine named a parliamentary commission to prepare a new constitution, adopted a multi-party system, and adopted legislative guarantees of civil and political rights for national minorities.

In the United Kingdom general election, 2001, the town returned Dr Richard Taylor as an independent MP for the Wyre Forest parliamentary constituency.

The cause of parliamentary reform was next taken up by Lord Chatham's son, William Pitt the Younger ( variously described as a Tory and as an " independent Whig ").

The party had lost most of its members, and the parliamentary faction had declared itself independent from the party.

The government increased their parliamentary majority on 24 November 2011 from 75 – 74 to 76 – 73 when the Coalition's Peter Slipper became an independent MP and Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives, replacing Labor's Harry Jenkins.

Unlike the British constitutional system, in Belgium the monarchy underwent a belated evolution which came after the establishment of the constitutional monarchical system because, in 1830-1831, an independent state, parliamentary system and monarchy were established simultaneously.

Sinn Féin, standing for ' an independent sovereign Ireland ', had won seventy-three of the one hundred and five parliamentary seats on the island in the 1918 General Election and established its own unilateral declaration of independence ( UDI ) state, the Irish Republic with its own parliament, Dáil Éireann.

When he got there, he was informed that a series of telephone calls had been made by senior opposition figures ( and some independent TDs ), including Fianna Fáil leader ( and ex-Taoiseach ) Charles Haughey, Brian Lenihan and Sylvester Barrett demanding that the President, as he could constitutionally do where a Taoiseach had ' ceased to retain the support of a majority in Dáil Éireann ', refuse FitzGerald a parliamentary dissolution, forcing his resignation as Taoiseach and enabling the Dáil to nominate someone else for the post.

Agnelli was named senator for life in 1991 and subscribed to the independent parliamentary group ; he was later named a member of the senate's defence commission.

In 1876 he began to study law seriously, which would the independent income necessary to pursue a parliamentary career ( given that parliamentary service was unpaid at the time ).

( The elected member in question would retain his or her parliamentary seat, as an independent.

After conservative candidates fared poorly in the 2000 parliamentary elections, the Council disqualified more than 3, 600 reformist and independent candidates for the 2004 elections.

Hamilton was trounced, and Martin Bell was elected an MP with a majority of 11, 077 votes – overturning a Conservative majority of over 22, 000 – and thus became the first successful independent parliamentary candidate since 1951.

While the opening session had generally been quite chaotic, with the deputies seated haphazardly, independent of their political affiliations, ordered parliamentary procedures developed quickly.

In his influential A History of Australia ( Melbourne University Press 1961 ) Clark wrote: " Mr Thomas Townshend, commonly denominated Tommy Townshend, owed his political career to a very independent fortune and a considerable parliamentary interest, which contributed to his personal no less than his political elevation, for his abilities, though respectable, scarcely rose above mediocrity.

From 1990 – 1994 he was the parliamentary opposition leader and continued his outspoken and independent style when his party was part of the government from 1994.

On the establishment of Quarter Sessions in 1349, the separate jurisdiction of the Soke was still maintained as distinct from that of the county of Northampton ; and, except for parliamentary purposes and matters relating to the militia, it was entirely independent of that county.