Forward-Independence Party
Forward-Independence Party | |
|---|---|
| Chairman | Philip Fuehrer |
| Founded | 1992 (as the Independence Party of Minnesota) |
| Ideology | Classical liberalism Radical centrism |
| Political position | Center |
| National affiliation | Forward Party |
| Colors | Purple |
| State Senate | 0 / 67 |
| State House | 0 / 134 |
| U.S. Senate | 0 / 2 |
| U.S. House | 0 / 8 |
| Website | |
| www | |
The Forward-Independence Party, a reverse merger of the Forward Party of Minnesota and the Independence-Alliance Party of Minnesota, formerly the Independence Party, and also formerly the Reform Party of Minnesota (1996–2000), is a political party in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It was the party of former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura when he left the Reform Party.
Originally an affiliate of the Reform Party, the IPM was later affiliated with the Independence Party of America and for a time had no national affiliation. But between 2019 and 2025, it was affiliated with the Alliance Party. The party has fielded candidates for most state-wide races and was considered a major party by the state from 1994 to 2014. It lost that status when none of its state-wide candidates won 5% of the vote in the 2014 gubernatorial election.
The party, which was represented in the U.S. Senate by Dean Barkley in 2002–2003, nominated former U.S. Representative Tim Penny as its candidate in the 2002 gubernatorial election, Peter Hutchinson in 2006 and Tom Horner in 2010.