Socialists won seats in the Reichstag by running as independent candidates, unaffiliated with any party, which was allowed by the German Constitution.

It involved a large-scale purge of the Communist Party and government officials, repression of peasants, Red Army leadership, and the persecution of unaffiliated persons, characterized by widespread police surveillance, widespread suspicion of " saboteurs ", imprisonment, and arbitrary executions.

* New Black Panther Party, a black supremacist organization in the United States, unaffiliated with its namesake

There were also two unaffiliated provincial parties, the Reform Party of British Columbia and the Reform Party of Manitoba.

The botched sales tax increase proposal was partially blamed for the DPJ's disappointing results in the July House of Councillors election, where the DPJ lost its majority and were forced to work with smaller, unaffiliated parties ( such as Your Party, the JCP, and the SDP ) in order to secure passage of bills in the House of Councillors.

The Great Purge was a series of campaigns of political repression and persecution in the Soviet Union orchestrated against members of the Communist Party, the peasantry, writers and intellectuals, and other unaffiliated persons.

In 1998, Jean Charest stepped down as federal Progressive Conservative leader to make the move to Quebec provincial politics, becoming leader of the federalist Liberal Party of Quebec ( unaffiliated with the Liberal Party of Canada ).

The Quebec Liberal Party ( unaffiliated with the federal Liberals since 1955 ) survived since Confederation but they have faced different opposition parties, several of which had formed the government, often alternating with the Liberals.

In the late 1930s Stalin embarked upon the Great Purge, a series of campaigns of political repression and persecution in the Soviet Union orchestrated against members of the Communist Party, the peasantry, and other unaffiliated persons.

The Solidarity Party continued to exist ( completely unaffiliated with Stevenson ) after the 1986 incident.

Communists were banned from joining the bar and the Law Society of BC interviewed Rankin at length prior to admitting him to the bar about his views on God, whether he would defend his country if attacked, and whether he was a member of the Communist Party of Canada, then called the Labour Progessive Party, something he was able to deny as the Communist University Club was an independent and unaffiliated organization.

Soon after these measures were passed, Borden convinced a faction of Liberals ( using the name Liberal-Unionists ) along with Gideon Decker Robertson who was described as a " Labour " Senator ( but was unaffiliated with any Labour Party ) to join with them, forming the Unionist government in October 1917.

Franqui broke ranks with the Cuban Communist Party in the late 1940s, but he remained an unaffiliated leftist.

On September 25, 2009, Kravchuk declared during an interview with the newspaper Den that he left the Social-Democratic Party ( United ) and became unaffiliated again.

Left Democratic Party and registered as Decline to State ( unaffiliated voter in California ).

At present, the Carmarthenshire County Council website lists Jenkins as " unaffiliated " ( to any political group ) on the County Council, which as the sole Conservative he technically was before his resignation as two councillors are needed to form a political group on a council but the change of designation indicates Jenkins ' resignation from the Conservative Party has been carried out.

It emerged following the Velvet Revolution, when some editors of the daily Rudé právo founded a new company unaffiliated with the Czechoslovak Communist Party but taking advantage of the existing reader base.

Originally a member of the social democratic New Democratic Party, he declared himself unaffiliated, but was regarded as one of the more progressive members of the council.

Other members included those from KRN, ZPP, Worker's Party of Polish Socialists ( RPPS ), SL, Democratic Party ( SD ), Polish Workers ' Party ( PPR ) and unaffiliated.

Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. is sometimes mentioned as an independent governor, though this is not technically correct ; he ran as A Connecticut Party candidate ( which gave him better ballot placement than an unaffiliated candidate would receive ), defeating the Democratic and Republican party nominees.

Freeman-who Pat Vasquez confirmed to be unaffiliated with Redbone in an interview with the Montana Standard-defrauded the county fair board of the Butte Silver-Bow County Fair in Butte, Montana, under pretenses of being a co-founding member of Redbone, yet he was never a band member.

His father was a shipping merchant who was brought up as a Catholic but had Protestant sympathies, and his mother was a devout Independent unaffiliated with the Anglican Church.

" The Legislative Assembly consisted of about 165 Feuillants ( constitutional monarchists ) on the right, about 330 Girondists ( liberal republicans ) and Jacobins ( radical revolutionaries ) on the left, and about 250 deputies unaffiliated with either faction.

The Legislative Assembly consisted of about 165 Feuillants ( constitutional monarchists ) on the right, about 330 Girondists ( liberal republicans ) in the center, a vocal group of Jacobins ( radical revolutionaries ) on the left, and about 250 deputies unaffiliated with any of those factions.

In 2010, Torvalds became a United States citizen and registered to vote in the United States ; he is unaffiliated with any U. S. political party, saying, " I have way too much personal pride to want to be associated with any of them, quite frankly.

Some were Unitarian or unaffiliated with a specific religious body.

The Indiana High School Forensic Association and Texas Forensic Association are state-specific organizations unaffiliated with the national leagues above.

* The Academy for Jewish Religion, in New York City, since 1956, and the unrelated Academy for Jewish Religion-California, in Los Angeles, since 2000, have been rabbinic ( and cantorial ) seminaries unaffiliated with any denomination or movement.

Most notably the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic movement embraced outreach with a passion, conducting nationwide campaigns to introduce Chabad Judaism to unaffiliated Jews, as well as to Jews of other affiliations.

By 1933, and his revision of the landmark 1907 Hatcher-Marsh-Lull monograph of all known ceratopsians, he retained his two groups and two unaffiliated species, with a third lineage of T. obtusus and T. hatcheri that was characterized by a very small nasal horn.

Students ( with more than 30 credit hours ) have the option to live off campus in unaffiliated housing.

The Texas Stars affiliate of the Dallas Stars, who after becoming unaffiliated with the Iowa Stars of the AHL, did not have an AHL affiliate for the 2008-09 season.

In fact, the movie transforms this girlfriend from Molly Millions into " Jade ", as the film rights to Molly were owned by a company unaffiliated with the film's producers.

Green commented to Morecambe, " You're done for ", to which Morecambe replied " Not at all, we belong to VAF " — a reference to The Variety Artists ' Federation, then a separate trade union unaffiliated with Equity.

The stores continued to operate under the Borders brand as the unaffiliated " Borders Asia Pacific " until RedGroup was placed into voluntary administration in February 2011 ; with the five New Zealand stores sold to the James Pascoe Group, and the Australian stores gradually shut down, with the last group to close by July 17.

* The Cult Awareness Network ( CAN ) was driven into bankruptcy in 1996 in part by a number of Scientology-related lawsuits ( CAN had also been held liable for over $ 1 million in damages for the kidnapping and abusive deprogramming of a member of the Life Tabernacle Church, a church unaffiliated with Scientology ).

Between the years 2004 – 2006, EMI then completely and totally divested itself from the c-pop market, and after that, all Hong Kong music artists previously associated with EMI have had their music published by Gold Label, a concern unaffiliated with EMI and with which EMI does not hold any interest.

In 2008, EMI withdrew from the South-East Asian market entirely, forcing its large roster of acts to search out contracts with other unaffiliated labels.

* Independent church ( disambiguation ), a church unaffiliated with a denominational organization

As of December 1, 2005, the town had 12, 099 registered voters, with 6, 445 Republicans ( 53. 1 percent ), 1, 940 Democrats ( 16 percent ) and 3, 703 unaffiliated voters ( 30. 6 percent ).

* Paul Fiorino-Dance Instructor business owner, educator and arts advocate-first unaffiliated candidate for Governor on the ballot by petition