In October 2011, he announced he would run for parliament in the 2011 parliamentary election on an independent ticket.

During the 1950s, his father was a member of the federal parliament for Lusaka, standing on an independent ticket.

Between 1905 and 1911 he was four times elected mayor of Toledo on an independent ticket, but he declined a fifth nomination.

Imtiyas was an Auto rickshaw driver from an impoverished background who contested local government elections on an independent ticket.

The remaining non-Mormons selected an independent municipal ticket, forming the Liberal Party.

Trenorden lost Nationals preselection prior to the 2013 state election and opted to head an independent ticket for the Agricultural region.

He ran, unsuccessfully, for the Senate in the 1984 election on an independent ticket, attaining 1,077 votes (0.13%).

They subsequently sat as independents and recontested the region on an independent ticket.

The local Democratic party considered sanctions against Harris for supporting the independent ticket but differences were smoothed out by 2008.

Anderson promptly switched from the Republican party to an independent ticket and won reelection anyway.