Lincolnshire Independents

Local Government

At the 2009 election, Lincolnshire Independents stood 19 candidates for Lincolnshire County Council of whom four were elected.

In 2013, they increased their representation to eight seats and polled 10.4% of the votes cast county-wide.

In the 2016 Police and Crime Commissioner elections the party stood a candidate for the Lincolnshire area, attaining 18,497 votes or approximately 16.52% of the vote.

At the 2017 county council election the party lost all but one of their seats on Lincolnshire County Council: party leader Marianne Overton won the Bassingham & Welbourn division.

Overton retained her seat in the 2021 county council election.

The party also stood a candidate in the 2021 PCC election. He came third with 18,375 votes (10.7%).

Marianne Overton has been the Independent Group leader and a vice-chair on the Local Government Association since 2011.

Overton ran as the party's candidate in the 2025 Greater Lincolnshire mayoral election. She came fourth out of six candidates, with 8% of the vote. She was also reelected in the county council election held on the same day.

Parliamentary elections

At the 2010 general election, party leader Marianne Overton stood for Sleaford and North Hykeham. She came fourth with 3,806 votes (6.4%). Campaign director Mark Horn, a Conservative Party member for 23 years who resigned as a county councillor in 2008, stood in Grantham and Stamford, receiving 929 votes (1.8%). In Louth and Horncastle, Daniel Simpson gained 576 votes (1.1%).

At the 2015 general election, Overton stood again in Sleaford & North Hykeham, coming fifth with 3,233 votes (5.2%). Jan Hansen stood in Grantham and Stamford, receiving 724 votes (1.3%) and Simpson stood again in Louth and Horncastle, polling 659 votes (1.3%). Additionally, Chris Darcel stood in Gainsborough, where he polled 505 votes (1%), and Helen Powell stood in Lincoln, where she received 286 votes (0.6%).

Overton stood in Sleaford and North Hykeham for a third time in the December 2016 by-election. She came fifth, with 2,892 votes (8.8%).

Overton again stood in Sleaford and North Hykeham in the 2019 general election, coming fourth with 3% of the vote.

The party ran in two constituencies in the 2024 general election: Grantham and Bourne, where they came seventh with 2.7% of the vote, and Sleaford and North Hykeham, where they came fourth with 6.2% of the vote.

References

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