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===Other parliamentary parties=== The [[Green Party of England and Wales]] had a single MP, [[Caroline Lucas]], from 2010 until the 2024 UK general election (the party previously had an MP in 1992; Cynog Dafis, Ceredigion, who was elected on a joint Plaid Cymru/Green Party ticket). In the 2024 UK general election the Greens won four seats. It also has three seats on the [[London Assembly]] and over 800 local councillors as of May 2024.<ref name="2024 local elections">{{cite news |last= Mackintosh |first= Thomas |date= 4 May 2024 |title= Green Party: Co-leaders hail highest number of councillors |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68956733 |work= BBC News |access-date= 4 May 2024}}</ref><!--Please note that the overall total for England, Scotland and Wales includes the 35 council seats of the [[Scottish Green Party]] which is a separate party. Therefore whenever checking this number you MUST subtract the Scottish total from the overall total.--> The [[Brexit Party]] was founded in January 2019, with leader [[Nigel Farage]] (former retired UKIP leader). It initially had 14 MEPs, all of whom had been elected as members of UKIP. In the [[2019 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom]], it returned 29 MEPs. The MEPs were elected representatives of the party until 11pm on 31 January 2020 when the UK left the European Union and the position of British MEPs was subsequently abolished.<ref>{{cite news |last= Harrison |first= Emma |date= 28 January 2020 |title= Brexit: Tears and relief as the UK's MEPs bid farewell |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51140299 |publisher=BBC News |access-date= 25 November 2020}}</ref> It was reconstituted into the [[Reform UK|Reform Party]]. Reform won 5 seats in the 2024 UK general election. There are usually a small number of [[independent politician]]s in parliament with no party allegiance. In modern times, this has usually occurred when a sitting member leaves their party, and some such MPs have been re-elected as independents. Between 1950 and 2023, only two new members were elected as independents without having ever stood for a major party: *[[Martin Bell]] represented the [[Tatton (UK Parliament constituency)|Tatton]] constituency in [[Cheshire]] between 1997 and 2001. He was [[Tatton in the 1997 general election|elected]] following a "sleaze" scandal involving the-then incumbent Conservative MP, [[Neil Hamilton (politician)|Neil Hamilton]]. Bell, a [[BBC]] journalist, stood as an anti-corruption independent candidate, and the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties withdrew their candidates from the election. *Dr. [[Richard Taylor (British politician)|Richard Taylor]] MP was elected for the [[Wyre Forest (UK Parliament constituency)|Wyre Forest]] constituency in 2001 on a platform opposing the closure of Kidderminster hospital. He later established [[Health Concern]], the party under which he ran in 2005. In the 2024 UK general election six independents were elected.
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