Kevin Kiley, who had been elected as a California Republican member of Congress in 2024, has switched his registration to independent. He will run for re-election in the Sixth U.S. House district this year. In California, independent candidates are forced to have the label “no party preference.”

When Kiley had been in the California legislature, he had introduced a bill to repeal the top-two system. While a member of Congress, he introduced a bill to ban mid-decade U.S. House redistricting.

Kiley is the first independent from California in Congress since William Kent, who was elected as an independent from Marin County in 1912 and 1914.