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The Independence for Scotland Party (ISP) (Scottish Gaelic: Pàrtaidh Neo-eisimeileachd do dh'Alba) is a minor political party in Scotland which supports Scottish independence within the European Free Trade Association (EFTA).[1]
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The party was founded in 2020[2] and was registered by the Electoral Commission on 7 May 2020.[3]
In November 2020, the party came under fire for quoting then Scottish National Party (SNP) Member of Parliament (MP) Kenny MacAskill's published view on constituency versus list voting.[4] MacAskill issued a statement saying that the advert was made without his consent.[5]
On 8 January 2021, Roddy McCuish became the first elected representative of the ISP, when he joined the party while on Argyll and Bute Council, having been elected as an independent and then later moving to the party. He had been both an SNP representative and an independent.[5]
The ISP had planned to stand fourteen list candidates in the 2021 Scottish Parliament election, one in South Scotland and Glasgow and two in the remaining six regions.[6] However, after the Alba Party announced their formation and decision to compete in the election, they withdrew their candidates.[7]
The ISP contested the 2022 Scottish local elections, running eleven candidates in total.[8] McCuish, the party's sole elected representative at the time, was not among the candidates to seek election, having already announced that he was standing down from his councillor role in March 2022.[9] They did not win any seats.[10]
The party leader, Collette Walker, was a candidate in the 2023 Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election. It was her party's first United Kingdom parliamentary election. She finished in ninth place with 0.68% of the vote, and lost her deposit.[11]
At the 2024 general election, ISP stood two candidates: John Hannah (Bathgate and Linlithgow) and Walker (East Renfrewshire).[12][13] The party campaigned on a platform of Abstentionism in the election.[14][15][16] Both Hannah and Walker were unsuccessful in their bid to win a seat, receiving 0.9% and 0.6% of votes respectively .[17][18][19]
For the 2026 Scottish Parliament election, ISP is standing candidates as part of Liberate Scotland, an electoral alliance formed by some of the smaller pro-independence parties to avoid splitting the nationalist vote.[20][21]
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