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Running as an independent candidate in the 16 April 2006 presidential primary election on the island of Anjouan, Sambi placed first out of thirteen candidates, winning 23.70% of the vote.
In independent India's first election in 1951, he won a seat in the West Bengal state assembly, contesting as an independent candidate from Amta (Vidhan Sabha constituency).
In 1995, after the parliamentary elections of 6th Saeima political parties were incapable of creating a coalition government for a while, thus Šķēle was presented as an independent candidate for the position of the Prime Minister.
In May 1928, Maslow and Fischer resigned from the Leninbund, because they disagreed with the Leninbund’s support of an independent candidate opposed to the KPD, and after the capitulation of Zinoviev and Kamenev who were opposed to Stalin, anticipated the hope (in vain) of being accepted again into the KPD.
However, Labour's council cabinet member, Alana Davies, lost her seat (Porthcawl East) to an Independent candidate.
He stood as an Independent candidate for the federal seat of Gwydir in 2001 and 2004, and Parkes in 2007.
In fact, before 2011, the BQ won at least seven of its nine seats in each of the preceding four elections, losing Saint-Maurice in 1997 and 2000 and Portneuf in 2000, which both went Liberal, winning all ridings in 2004, and in 2006 and 2008 losing only Lotbinière—Chutes-de-la-Chaudière to the Conservatives and Portneuf-Jacques-Cartier to independent candidate André Arthur.
Continuing to run as an independent candidate, Collins chose as his Vice Presidential running mate Rosemary Giumarra of Porterville, California.
In 2006, he contested as CPM – Independent candidate for Kerala Assembly Elections from Kallooppara and lost to Joseph M Puthussery (KCM -Kerala CongressMani.
In 2011, Giunchigliani ran for Mayor of Las Vegas and was defeated by Independent candidate Carolyn Goodman, the wife of former Mayor Oscar Goodman.
He stood as an independent candidate for the East Belfast constituency in the 1997 UK general election, but got only 1.4% of the vote.
He was re-elected at the 1997 general election with a much reduced share of the vote, but lost his seat at the 2002 general election to the independent candidate Finian McGrath.
He ran for election to the Montreal city council as an independent candidate in the 2001 municipal election and was defeated.
In January 2008, Bailey and fellow Unity08 co-founder Gerald Rafshoon left that organization to launch a national effort to draft New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to run for president as an independent candidate.
He won the Democratic nomination unopposed, and in the general election, he faced former State Representative Frank Farkas, the Republican nominee, and independent candidate Matthew Weidner.
She unsuccessfully ran for public office three times as an independent candidate: for Henty federally in 1922, Brighton at state level in 1928, and Martin federally in 1943.
At the 2001 state election, the Labor Party won government and Court's own margin was cut to 4.93% by Independent candidate Liz Davenport, a prominent fashion designer and member of the Liberals for Forests party.
During the Quebec provincial election Independent candidate Kevin Côté made one of his platforms to force Canadiens into retiring the number.
Frank J. Esposito, college history professor and independent candidate for Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey
In the 2009 New Jersey gubernatorial race, Esposito was named by independent candidate Christopher Daggett as his ticket's candidate for Lieutenant Governor.
Prominent past representatives from the 16th district have included Everett Dirksen, who went on to become the Republican leader in the United States Senate; John B. Anderson, who became the 3rd highest ranking Republican in the House and went on to run as a major independent candidate in the 1980 Presidential election; and Lynn Martin, who later served as US Secretary of Labor.
He was the Mayor of the Third District of the city (Óbuda) between 1990 and 2006 (as an independent candidate).
He faced independent candidate Lucien Dubuc but was defeated by an unknown number of votes despite being favored to win.
She was an independent candidate for the publicly elected Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation in the city's 2008 municipal election, after being controversially blocked from running on the Non-Partisan Association ticket.
With the Quebec East riding boundaries redistributed in 2003, Carignan contested the Louis-Saint-Laurent electoral district in the 2004 federal election as an independent candidate but finished in sixth place while Bernard Cleary of the Bloc Québécois won the riding.
In the general election, he was an unsuccessful Independent candidate for reelection to the Seventy-sixth Congress.
2012 With District 52 incumbent appointed Republican Representative Daniel McCay redistricted to District 41, Knotwell was selected from four candidates by the Republican convention and won the three-way November 6, 2012 General election with 9,928 votes (73.6%) against Democratic nominee Daniel Paget and Independent candidate Aaron Davis.
Moore attempted to run for a second term in office but was defeated in the 1909 Alberta general election by Independent candidate Edward Michener.
His greatest political achievement was in 1946 when Pujari, as an independent candidate for the Bombay Municipal Corporation (BMC) by-elections with Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar's blessings and support, defeated Congressman Raja Gunottam Hutheesing, husband of Krishna Hutheesing and brother-in-law of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India.
In 1992, she unsuccessfully ran as an independent candidate for Illinois's 2nd congressional district.
James ran as an independent candidate at the 2010 South Australian state election in the House of Assembly seat of Port Adelaide held by Rann Labor Treasurer Kevin Foley.
Independent candidate and outgoing NSW state MP for Port Macquarie, Rob Oakeshott, won the resulting by-election on 6 September.
In the 2004 election, Robati lost his seat to the independent candidate Piho Rua.
Clarke resigned as Mayor of the Gold Coast on 27 February 2012, when he announced his nomination to run as an independent candidate for the seat of Broadwater in the 2012 Queensland state election.
Jean-Claude Wambre, a commercial agent established in Nieder-Olm near Mainz, is running as an independent candidate.His deputy is Hervé Messmer.
Similar appearances occurred during the 2003 parliamentary elections when he appeared on Croatian Radiotelevision as an independent candidate.
Dominic James Ashford was nominated as an Independent candidate, but withdrew before the poll, claiming that he had drawn attention to Slough Town Football Club.
He faced a strong challenge from Dr. Jean Turner who stood as an "independent" candidate trying to save the local Stobhill Hospital.
Kinky Friedman, an independent candidate, gained a good amount of popular support among Texas voters.
5. George Weiss (born 1940) was another Independent candidate, using the ballot paper label "Captain Rainbow Universal Party (Abolish Parliament)".
He was an unsuccessful Independent candidate for election in 1944 to the 79th Congress.
No independent candidate was elected: Jamie Lee Hamilton (15,405 votes), Peter Raymond Haskell (5,674 votes), Thomas Lockhart (6,832 votes), Richard Mayencourt (11,152 votes).
In initial results on election night, Oppal led in Delta South by a margin of just two votes over independent candidate Vicki Huntington.
Meanwhile, a minister in the outgoing Government, Doug Shave, lost his seat of Alfred Cove to Independent candidate Dr Janet Woollard, who was also a member of the Liberals for Forests party.
He was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly in April 1880, as an independent candidate for the Deloraine seat.
His first electoral contest as an independent candidate, fought under the label of "Independent Anti-Socialist", was a narrow loss in a by-election in the Westminster Abbey constituency – his third electoral defeat in fewer than two years.