Belonging or pertaining to, or holding to the doctrines or methods of, the Independents.

Not bound by party; exercising a free choice in voting with either or any party.

One who believes that an organized Christian church is complete in itself, competent to self-government, and independent of all ecclesiastical authority.

One who does not acknowledge an obligation to support a party's candidate under all circumstances; one who exercises liberty in voting.

A Member of Parliament who is not a member of a political party.

a voter who does not support any one party

a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics)

of political bodies; "an autonomous judiciary"; "a sovereign state"

not controlled by a party or interest group

a guy who wants to take the politics out of politics An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured

a third-party candidate; offers a second point of view

A voter or candidate who does not belong to a political party.

a person who is not associated with any political party.

a candidate/voter not belonging to or identifying with either of the two major political parties. The number of independent voters has increased substantially in recent decades, as electoral allegiance to the two major parties has waned among Americans.

a member of parliament who does not belong to a political party.

In politics, an independent is a politician who is not affiliated with any political party. In countries with a two-party system, independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between the two parties, or may feel that neither of the two parties adequately represents their viewpoint.

In English church history, Independents advocated local congregational control of religious and church matters, without any wider geographical hierarchy, either ecclesiastical or political. Independents reached particular prominence between 1642 and 1660, in the period of the English Civil War and of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, wherein the Parliamentary Army became the champion of Independent religious views against the Anglicanism or the Catholicism of Royalists and the Presbyterianism favoured by Parliament itself.

In United States politics, the term independent voter typically refers to a enrolled voter who is explicitly not a member of any political party, although the term is often used more broadly to include minor party voters as well. Independent voters are not permitted to vote in any party's primary presidential elections (these are federally funded, thus the requirement to publicly declare one's voting allegiance). An non-independent voter can be thought of as an analogue to a member of a political party.