The deadline for non-party candidates to present nomination papers was April 3.
Fifty-five non-party candidates were elected to the Parliament.
Even where non-party candidates get on the ballot paper, it is very rare that these candidates are successful.
In 1973, he was elected to Ballymoney Borough Council as a non-party candidate.
He has proposed one-person, one-vote balloting in local elections that would be open to party and non-party candidates alike.
Vahi, a former Minister of Transport, was seen as a non-party candidate.
He stood as a non-party candidate, and if elected pledged to give his senator's salary to cancer research.
The remaining 54 seats went to non-party candidates.
United Russia's party list would include non-party candidates nominated by these various organizations, he stated.
Fischer, an independent statistician, was chosen as non-party candidate for the office of Prime Minister.
