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The Publican Party was a minor political party in Scotland. The party was founded in March 2005 in Inverness, Highland by two publicans, Kit Fraser and Don Lawson.
The foremost policy of the Publican Party was fighting a smoking ban which came into effect in March 2006. The party argued for separate smoking rooms, and worked with a campaign to lift the ban on smoking shisha pipes.
Lawson stood for the party in the Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey constituency at the 2005 general election and gained 678 votes (1.5%). The party contested four regional seats in the Scottish Parliament election, 2007, receiving 5,905 votes. Fraser blamed a lack of financial support from trade associations and brewers for their electoral performance. It was deregistered on November 2007.