What's the difference between Independents and Non Party Independents?
Independent would mean someone who put "Independent" as his party on the ballot paper (which in somewhere like Ceredigion is a pretty strong indication that he is or will be part of an official Independent Group), Non Party Independent indicates someone who didn't put "Independent" as his party on the ballot paper... which can indicate all sorts of things, from a genuine independent to someone who would have put "Independent Labour" or "Independent Nationalist" or "Independent Conservative" (and etc, etc, etc) until a few years ago (because you can't do that anymore. Another legacy of the "Literal Democrat" fiasco...)
LOL - Literal Democrat - did he end up affecting the election or even winning?
I think the Tory got back in this case.
