The National Independent Party is a political party in Lesotho.
The NIP was founded by Anthony Manyeli as a split from the Basotho National Party. It performed poorly in the 1993 and 1998 parliamentary elections, but in the election for the National Assembly held on 25 May 2002, the party won 5.5% of popular votes Manyeli contested this alliance and won a court ruling against the alliance, but it was then overturned on appeal. He was excluded from the party's list of candidates and therefore did not get a seat in parliament. Opposition parties trying to have the alliance ruled invalid have said that the appeal ruling was in violation of the constitution; they sought for the NIP members of parliament to be replaced by Manyeli and his supporters.
Election results
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Election
! Votes
! Share
! Seats
! +/-
! Government
|-
! 1993
| 241
| 0.05
|
| New
|
|-
! 1998
| 1,644
| 0.28
|
| 0
|
|-
! 2002
| 30,346
| 5.47
|
| 5
|
|-
! 2007
|
|
|
| 16
|
|-
! 2012
| 6,880
| 1.25
|
| 19
|
|-
! 2015
| 5,404
| 0.95
|
| 1
|
|-
! 2017
| 6,375
| 1.10
|
| 0
|
|-
! 2022
| 3,703
| 0.72
|
| 0
|
|-
|}