UK Local Elections : May 1st 2008

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Result 2004 : If emboldened, candidate elected
Arthur John Moelfryn MASKELL, NPI      294   107.42%
Thomas Gerallt DAVIES, NPI      274   100.12%
Margaret Leah Jocelyn ANDREW, NPI      273   99.75%
Carys Lloyd LEWIS, NPI      272   99.39%
Euryd Rhys JONES, NPI      263   96.10%
Barrie Granville OWEN, NPI      243   88.79%
Margaret Davina EVANS, NPI      236   86.23%
Evan Idris Wyn EVANS, NPI      231   84.40%
Dewi Wyn JONES, NPI      221   80.75%
Peter James Harry Jones HAYFIELD, LDm      156   57.00%

What is a faction of the Canadian NDP doing in being involved in UK local elections?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Because in the UK (especially Wales), NPI stands for Non Party Independent (the classfication I have had to come up with for candidates who stand as Name (No Party).

As opposed to what, Party Independent?  Being Independent (Ind) pretty much precludes being part of a party, or at least it does in plain English.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

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?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

And in the 1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election (won by Roy Jenkins) someone called Douglas Parkin changed his name by deed poll to Roy Jenkins and ran for a party also called the SDP...

Looking it over, I duscovered that the weird thing is that other SDP was actually the older of the two parties to use the name, having been founded two years earlier than its more famous cousin.