Leader Marianne Overton Lincolnshire County Council 8 / 77 | Ideology Localism | |
Founded 18 July 2008 (2008-07-18) | ||
Lincolnshire Independents is a British political party based in the county of Lincolnshire. They were founded in July 2008.
Contents
Local Government
At the 2009 election, Lincolnshire Independents stood 19 candidates for Lincolnshire County Council of whom four were elected.
Four years later, they increased their representation to nine seats and polled 10.4% of the votes cast county-wide.
As of February 2015, Lincolnshire Independents hold eight seats on the county council.
Parliamentary elections
At the 2010 general election, party leader Marianne Overton MBE stood for Sleaford & North Hykeham. and retained her deposit by gaining more than 5% of the vote: 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%).