The Vectis National Party was a minor political party operating on the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s. Formed in 1967,^[1] the party sought Crown dependency status for the Isle of Wight, on a similar model to certain other islands including the Isle of Man. They were motivated by a belief that the sale of the Isle of Wight to the English crown in 1293 was unconstitutional.^[2][3]

The party contested the Isle of Wight constituency in the 1970 general election when candidate R. W. J. Cawdell, a councillor for Ryde,^[4] polled 1,607 votes (2.8% of the Wight vote).^[1] The party led it to undertake symbolic direct action, such as an intra-island postal service during the 1971 postal strike.^[1][5] That year it narrowly lost a local government election.^[3] It also led campaigns for the establishment of an Isle of Wight specific radio service (which eventually came into being in 1990) and for a regional television service.^[3] The party's failure to convince the electorate to break from the traditional parties however led to disillusionment amongst members and by the mid 1970s the party had been wound up.^[3]

In 2006, Ray Stokes attempted to revive the VNP, emphasizing two aspects: an economically opportunistic deployment of islandness and a conservative, nostalgic impulse. The party was opposed to housing development that would lead to increased migration to the island, and to a fixed link to the island of Great Britain.^[6] The revived party did not contest any election.

In the 2021 Isle of Wight Council election, the leader of the Vectis Party Daryll Pitcher won a single seat in the Wootton Bridge ward.^[7] In 2023, he was jailed for historic sex offences.^[8]