Independence-Alliance Party

Independence Party of Minnesota
Chairman	Philip Fuehrer
Founded	1992; 32 years ago (1992)
Ideology	Classical liberalism Radical centrism
Political position	Center
National affiliation	Alliance Party
Colors	Orange
State Senate	0 / 67
State House	0 / 134
U.S. Senate	0 / 2
U.S. House	0 / 8
Website
www.mnip.org
Politics of Minnesota Political parties Elections

The Independence—Alliance Party, a merger of the Alliance Party and the Independence Party, 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 since 2019, it has joined 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.^[1] 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.