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id="toc-Trimble_leadership" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Trimble_leadership"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.5</span> <span>Trimble leadership</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Trimble_leadership-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Empey_leadership" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Empey_leadership"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.6</span> <span>Empey leadership</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Empey_leadership-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Elliott_leadership" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Elliott_leadership"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.7</span> <span>Elliott leadership</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Elliott_leadership-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-First_Nesbitt_leadership" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#First_Nesbitt_leadership"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.8</span> <span>First Nesbitt leadership</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-First_Nesbitt_leadership-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Swann_leadership" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Swann_leadership"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.9</span> <span>Swann leadership</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Swann_leadership-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Aiken_leadership" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Aiken_leadership"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.10</span> <span>Aiken leadership</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Aiken_leadership-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Beattie_leadership" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Beattie_leadership"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.11</span> <span>Beattie leadership</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Beattie_leadership-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Leaders" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Leaders"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2</span> <span>Leaders</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Leaders-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Structure" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Structure"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Structure</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Structure-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon 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class="vector-toc-numb">4.3</span> <span>Northern Ireland Executive Ministers</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Northern_Ireland_Executive_Ministers-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Party_spokespersons" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Party_spokespersons"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.4</span> <span>Party spokespersons</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Party_spokespersons-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Party_officers" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Party_officers"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.5</span> <span>Party officers</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Party_officers-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Electoral_performance" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Electoral_performance"> <div 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class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Local_government" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Local_government"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.3</span> <span>Local government</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Local_government-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-European_Parliament" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#European_Parliament"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.4</span> <span>European Parliament</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-European_Parliament-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main 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class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0_%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F_%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BF" title="আলস্টার ইউনিয়নিস্ট পার্টি – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="আলস্টার ইউনিয়নিস্ট পার্টি" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8D%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%8E%D0%BD%D1%96%D1%8F%D0%BD%D1%96%D1%81%D1%86%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D1%8B%D1%8F" title="Ольстэрская юніянісцкая партыя – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Ольстэрская юніянісцкая партыя" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8D%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%8E%D0%BD%D1%96%D1%8F%D0%BD%D1%96%D1%81%D1%86%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D1%8B%D1%8F" title="Ольстэрская юніянісцкая партыя – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Ольстэрская юніянісцкая партыя" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partit_Unionista_de_l%27Ulster" title="Partit Unionista de l'Ulster – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Partit Unionista de l'Ulster" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaid_Unoliaethol_Ulster" title="Plaid Unoliaethol Ulster – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Plaid Unoliaethol Ulster" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_Unionist_Party" title="Ulster Unionist Party – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Ulster Unionist Party" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_Unionist_Party" title="Ulster Unionist Party – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Ulster Unionist Party" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%95%CE%BD%CF%89%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C_%CE%9A%CF%8C%CE%BC%CE%BC%CE%B1_%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%8C%CE%BB%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%81" title="Ενωτικό Κόμμα του Όλστερ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Ενωτικό Κόμμα του Όλστερ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partido_Unionista_del_%C3%9Alster" title="Partido Unionista del Úlster – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Partido Unionista del Úlster" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulstergo_Alderdi_Unionista" title="Ulstergo Alderdi Unionista – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Ulstergo Alderdi Unionista" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AD%D8%B2%D8%A8_%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%AF%DA%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1" title="حزب اتحادگرای اولستر – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="حزب اتحادگرای اولستر" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parti_unioniste_d%27Ulster" title="Parti unioniste d'Ulster – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Parti unioniste d'Ulster" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1irt%C3%AD_Aontachtach_Uladh" title="Páirtí Aontachtach Uladh – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Páirtí Aontachtach Uladh" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partido_Unionista_do_Ulster" title="Partido Unionista do Ulster – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Partido Unionista do Ulster" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko 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class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 125%;"><div style="padding-top:0.3em; padding-bottom:0.3em; border-top:2px solid #48A5EE; border-bottom:2px solid #48A5EE; line-height: 1;"><div class="fn org">Ulster Unionist Party</div> </div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image logo" style="padding-top:.4em;padding-bottom:.3em;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ulster_Unionist_Party_logo_(2017).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Ulster Unionist Logo"><img alt="Ulster Unionist Logo" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5e/Ulster_Unionist_Party_logo_%282017%29.svg/250px-Ulster_Unionist_Party_logo_%282017%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="117" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5e/Ulster_Unionist_Party_logo_%282017%29.svg/375px-Ulster_Unionist_Party_logo_%282017%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5e/Ulster_Unionist_Party_logo_%282017%29.svg/500px-Ulster_Unionist_Party_logo_%282017%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="460" data-file-height="216" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Abbreviation</th><td class="infobox-data nickname" style="line-height:1.3em;">UUP</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Party_leader" title="Party leader">Leader</a></th><td class="infobox-data agent" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Mike_Nesbitt" title="Mike Nesbitt">Mike Nesbitt</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Party_chair" title="Party chair">Chairman</a></th><td class="infobox-data agent" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Jill_Macauley" title="Jill Macauley">Jill Macauley</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Deputy leader</th><td class="infobox-data agent" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Robbie_Butler" title="Robbie Butler">Robbie Butler</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">3 March 1905<span class="noprint">; 119 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1905-03-03</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Irish_Unionist_Alliance" title="Irish Unionist Alliance">Irish Unionist Alliance</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Strandtown" title="Strandtown">Strandtown</a> Hall<br /> 2–4 Belmont Road <br /> <a href="/wiki/Belfast" title="Belfast">Belfast</a> <br /> BT4 2AN</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Youth_wing" title="Youth wing">Youth wing</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Young_Unionists" title="Young Unionists">Young Unionists</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_wing" title="Women's wing">Women's wing</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">Ulster Women's Unionist Council</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_political_ideologies" title="List of political ideologies">Ideology</a></th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.3em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Unionism_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Unionism in the United Kingdom">British unionism</a><sup id="cite_ref-Nordsieck_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nordsieck-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Conservatism in the United Kingdom">Conservatism</a><sup id="cite_ref-Nordsieck_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nordsieck-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Belfast_Newsletter_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Belfast_Newsletter-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Political_spectrum" title="Political spectrum">Political position</a></th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Centre-right_politics" title="Centre-right politics">Centre-right</a><sup id="cite_ref-AnttiroikoMälkiä_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AnttiroikoMälkiä-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/European_political_party" title="European political party">European affiliation</a></th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.3em;">None <br /> <a href="/wiki/European_Conservatives_and_Reformists_Party" title="European Conservatives and Reformists Party">European Conservatives and Reformists Party</a> (Global partner until 2025)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">National affiliation</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative Party</a> (1922–1972; 2009–2012)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Colours</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}</style><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#48A5EE; color:black;"> </span> Blue</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Slogan</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">For the Union</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a><br />(<a href="/wiki/List_of_parliamentary_constituencies_in_Northern_Ireland" title="List of parliamentary constituencies in Northern Ireland">NI seats</a>)</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">1 / 18</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 6%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/House_of_Lords" title="House of Lords">House of Lords</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">3 / 836</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 0.4%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland_Assembly" title="Northern Ireland Assembly">NI Assembly</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">9 / 90</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 10%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_Northern_Ireland" title="Local government in Northern Ireland">Councillors in Northern Ireland</a><sup id="cite_ref-localcouncil_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-localcouncil-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">52 / 462</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 11%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_Northern_Ireland" title="Local government in Northern Ireland">Councils led</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">1 / 11</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 9%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="line-height: 0.8em;">Website</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.uup.org/">www<wbr />.uup<wbr />.org</a></span> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" 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dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:first-child::before{content:" (";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-top:0.3em; border-top:2px solid #48A5EE;"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Northern_Ireland" title="Politics of Northern Ireland">Politics of Northern Ireland</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Northern_Ireland" title="List of political parties in Northern Ireland">Political parties</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Northern_Ireland" title="Elections in Northern Ireland">Elections</a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Ulster Unionist Party</b> (<b>UUP</b>) is a <a href="/wiki/Unionism_in_Ireland" title="Unionism in Ireland">unionist</a> political party in <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The party was founded as the Ulster Unionist Council in 1905, emerging from the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Unionist_Alliance" title="Irish Unionist Alliance">Irish Unionist Alliance</a> in <a href="/wiki/Ulster" title="Ulster">Ulster</a>. Under <a href="/wiki/Edward_Carson" title="Edward Carson">Edward Carson</a>, it led unionist opposition to the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Home_Rule_movement" title="Irish Home Rule movement">Irish Home Rule movement</a>. Following the <a href="/wiki/Partition_of_Ireland" title="Partition of Ireland">partition of Ireland</a>, it was the <a href="/wiki/Ruling_party" title="Ruling party">governing party</a> of <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a> between 1921 and 1972. It was supported by most unionist voters throughout the conflict known as <a href="/wiki/The_Troubles" title="The Troubles">the Troubles</a>, during which time it was often referred to as the <b>Official Unionist Party</b> (<b>OUP</b>).<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Under <a href="/wiki/David_Trimble" title="David Trimble">David Trimble</a>, the party helped negotiate the <a href="/wiki/Good_Friday_Agreement" title="Good Friday Agreement">Good Friday Agreement</a> of 1998, which ended the conflict. Trimble served as the first <a href="/wiki/First_Minister_and_deputy_First_Minister_of_Northern_Ireland" class="mw-redirect" title="First Minister and deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland">First Minister of Northern Ireland</a> from 1998 to 2002. However, it was overtaken as the largest unionist party <a href="/wiki/2003_Northern_Ireland_Assembly_election" title="2003 Northern Ireland Assembly election">in 2003</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Unionist_Party" title="Democratic Unionist Party">Democratic Unionist Party</a> (DUP). As of 2022 it is the fourth-largest party in the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland_Assembly" title="Northern Ireland Assembly">Northern Ireland Assembly</a>, after <a href="/wiki/Sinn_F%C3%A9in" title="Sinn Féin">Sinn Féin</a>, the DUP, and the <a href="/wiki/Alliance_Party_of_Northern_Ireland" title="Alliance Party of Northern Ireland">Alliance Party</a>. Since August 2024 the party has been led by <a href="/wiki/Mike_Nesbitt" title="Mike Nesbitt">Mike Nesbitt</a>. </p><p>Between 1905 and 1972, its <a href="/wiki/Peerages_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Peerages in the United Kingdom">peers</a> and MPs took the <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative Party</a> <a href="/wiki/Whip_(politics)" title="Whip (politics)">whip</a> at <a href="/wiki/Westminster" title="Westminster">Westminster</a>, in effect functioning as the Northern Irish branch of the party. This arrangement came to an end in 1972 over disagreements over the <a href="/wiki/Sunningdale_Agreement" title="Sunningdale Agreement">Sunningdale Agreement</a>. The two parties have remained institutionally separate ever since, with the exception of the 2009 to 2012 <a href="/wiki/Ulster_Conservatives_and_Unionists" title="Ulster Conservatives and Unionists">Ulster Conservatives and Unionists</a> electoral alliance. The first-ever membership survey of the UUP, published in January 2019, suggested that 67% of its members were supportive of the Conservative Party.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ulster_Unionist_Party&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Ulster Unionist Party traces its formal existence back to the foundation of the <b>Ulster Unionist Council</b> in 1905. It is the oldest political party on the island of <a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Background:_1886_to_1905">Background: 1886 to 1905</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ulster_Unionist_Party&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Background: 1886 to 1905"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Irish_Unionist_Alliance" title="Irish Unionist Alliance">Irish Unionist Alliance</a></div> <p>Modern organised unionism emerged after <a href="/wiki/William_Ewart_Gladstone" title="William Ewart Gladstone">William Ewart Gladstone</a>'s introduction in 1886 of the first of three <a href="/wiki/Irish_Home_Rule_movement" title="Irish Home Rule movement">Home Rule Bills</a> in response to demands by the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Parliamentary_Party" title="Irish Parliamentary Party">Irish Parliamentary Party</a>. In 1891, the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Conservative_Party" title="Irish Conservative Party">Irish Conservative Party</a> came to an end, merged into a new <a href="/wiki/Irish_Unionist_Alliance" title="Irish Unionist Alliance">Irish Unionist Alliance</a> (IUA) which also included the Irish <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Unionist_Party" title="Liberal Unionist Party">Liberal Unionists</a>, the latter having split from the <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal Party</a> over the issue of <a href="/wiki/Irish_Home_Rule_movement" title="Irish Home Rule movement">home rule</a>. While usually dominated by unionists from <a href="/wiki/Ulster" title="Ulster">Ulster</a>, the IUA was often led by southern unionists. There were also some eighty members of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Lords" title="House of Lords">House of Lords</a> who affiliated themselves with the IUA. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Ulster_Defence_Union" title="Ulster Defence Union">Ulster Defence Union</a> was also formed on 17 March 1893 to oppose the Liberal government's plans for the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Ireland_Bill_1893" title="Government of Ireland Bill 1893">Government of Ireland Bill 1893</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although most unionist support was based in <a href="/wiki/Ulster" title="Ulster">Ulster</a>, especially within areas that later became <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a>, in the late 19th and early 20th century there were unionist enclaves throughout all of Ireland. Unionists in <a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a> and <a href="/wiki/County_Wicklow" title="County Wicklow">County Wicklow</a> and in parts of <a href="/wiki/County_Cork" title="County Cork">County Cork</a> were particularly influential. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1905_to_1921">1905 to 1921</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ulster_Unionist_Party&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 1905 to 1921"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In September 1904, the Conservative government of <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Balfour" title="Arthur Balfour">Arthur Balfour</a> published proposals for limited devolution to Ireland which would not amount to home rule. Coming from Conservatives, these led to great alarm among Irish unionists; in March 1905, the Ulster Unionist Council, which later became the Ulster Unionist Party, was formed as a co-ordinating organization for a new form of local political activity.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It largely subsumed the Ulster Defence Union. </p><p>From the beginning, the new organization had a strong association with the <a href="/wiki/Orange_Order" title="Orange Order">Orange Order</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Protestantism" title="Protestantism">Protestant</a> <a href="/wiki/Fraternal_organisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Fraternal organisation">fraternal organisation</a>. The original composition of the Ulster Unionist Council was 25% Orange delegates;<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> however, this proportion was reduced through the years. The initial leadership of the Ulster unionists all came from outside what would later become Northern Ireland. In particular, from 1905 <a href="/wiki/Edward_James_Saunderson" title="Edward James Saunderson">Colonel Saunderson</a> was simultaneously leader of the Irish Unionist Alliance MPs and leader of the Ulster Unionist Council in Belfast. In 1906 he was succeeded in both roles by <a href="/wiki/Walter_Long,_1st_Viscount_Long" title="Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long">Walter Hume Long</a>, a Dublin MP. Another Dubliner, <a href="/wiki/Edward_Carson" title="Edward Carson">Sir Edward Carson</a>, one of the two Irish Unionist Alliance MPs for the <a href="/wiki/Dublin_University_(constituency)" title="Dublin University (constituency)">Dublin University constituency</a>, and <a href="/wiki/St_John_Brodrick,_1st_Earl_of_Midleton" title="St John Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton">Lord Midleton</a> were also southern unionists active in both. Carson went on to become the first leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, from 1910. Throughout his years of leadership, he fought a sustained campaign against Irish Home Rule, including taking the lead in the formation of the <a href="/wiki/Ulster_Volunteers" title="Ulster Volunteers">Ulster Volunteers</a> at the onset of the <a href="/wiki/Home_Rule_Crisis" title="Home Rule Crisis">Home Rule Crisis</a> in 1912. </p><p>In 1912, at Westminster the Home Rule Crisis led to the Liberal Unionist Party merging with the Conservatives, thus giving rise to the current name of the <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative and Unionist Party</a>, to which the Ulster Unionist Party was formally linked, to varying degrees, until 1985. </p><p>At the <a href="/wiki/1918_Irish_general_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1918 Irish general election">1918 general election</a>, Carson switched constituencies from Dublin University to <a href="/wiki/Belfast_Duncairn_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Belfast Duncairn (UK Parliament constituency)">Belfast Duncairn</a>. </p><p>After the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Convention" title="Irish Convention">Irish Convention</a> of 1917–1918 failed to reach an understanding on home rule, and even more after the <a href="/wiki/Partition_of_Ireland" title="Partition of Ireland">Partition of Ireland</a> under the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Ireland_Act_1920" title="Government of Ireland Act 1920">Government of Ireland Act 1920</a>, Irish unionism in effect split. Many southern unionist politicians quickly became reconciled with the new <a href="/wiki/Irish_Free_State" title="Irish Free State">Irish Free State</a>, sitting in its <a href="/wiki/Seanad_%C3%89ireann_(Irish_Free_State)" title="Seanad Éireann (Irish Free State)">Senate</a> or joining its political parties, while in Northern Ireland the existence of a separate Ulster Unionist Party became entrenched as it took control of the new <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Northern_Ireland_(1921%E2%80%931972)" title="Government of Northern Ireland (1921–1972)">Government of Northern Ireland</a>, established in 1921. </p><p>Carson strongly opposed the partition of Ireland and the end of unionism as an all-Ireland political force, so he refused the opportunity to be <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Northern_Ireland" title="Prime Minister of Northern Ireland">Prime Minister of Northern Ireland</a> or even to sit in the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_Northern_Ireland" title="House of Commons of Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland House of Commons</a>, citing a lack of connection with the new province. The leadership of the UUP and, subsequently, Northern Ireland, was taken by <a href="/wiki/James_Craig,_1st_Viscount_Craigavon" title="James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon">Sir James Craig</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Road_To_War_Q81759.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/The_Road_To_War_Q81759.jpg/220px-The_Road_To_War_Q81759.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="261" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/The_Road_To_War_Q81759.jpg/330px-The_Road_To_War_Q81759.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/The_Road_To_War_Q81759.jpg/440px-The_Road_To_War_Q81759.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4211" data-file-height="4991" /></a><figcaption>Carson inspecting the <a href="/wiki/Ulster_Volunteers" title="Ulster Volunteers">UVF</a>, <a href="/wiki/F._E._Smith,_1st_Earl_of_Birkenhead" title="F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead">F. E. Smith</a> walking behind him, pre-1914</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Stormont_era:_linked_with_the_Conservative_Party">The Stormont era: linked with the Conservative Party</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ulster_Unionist_Party&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: The Stormont era: linked with the Conservative Party"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="1920–1963"><span id="1920.E2.80.931963"></span>1920–1963</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ulster_Unionist_Party&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 1920–1963"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Until almost the very end of its period of power in <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a>, the UUP was led by a combination of <a href="/wiki/Landed_gentry" title="Landed gentry">landed gentry</a> (<a href="/wiki/Basil_Brooke,_1st_Viscount_Brookeborough" title="Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough">The 1st Viscount Brookeborough</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hugh_MacDowell_Pollock" title="Hugh MacDowell Pollock">Hugh MacDowell Pollock</a> and <a href="/wiki/James_Chichester-Clark" title="James Chichester-Clark">James Chichester-Clark</a>), <a href="/wiki/Aristocracy" title="Aristocracy">aristocracy</a> (<a href="/wiki/Terence_O%27Neill" title="Terence O'Neill">Terence O'Neill</a>) and gentrified industrial magnates (<a href="/wiki/James_Craig,_1st_Viscount_Craigavon" title="James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon">The 1st Viscount Craigavon</a> and <a href="/wiki/J._M._Andrews" title="J. M. Andrews">J. M. Andrews</a> – nephew of <a href="/wiki/William_Pirrie,_1st_Viscount_Pirrie" title="William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie">The 1st Viscount Pirrie</a>). Only its last <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Northern_Ireland" title="Prime Minister of Northern Ireland">Prime Minister</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brian_Faulkner" title="Brian Faulkner">Brian Faulkner</a>, was from a middle-class background. During this era, all but 11 of the 149 UUP Stormont MPs were members of the Orange Order, as were all Prime Ministers.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sir James Craig, who in 1927 was created <a href="/wiki/Viscount_Craigavon" title="Viscount Craigavon">Viscount Craigavon</a>, led the government of Northern Ireland from its inception until his death in November 1940 and is buried with his wife by the east wing of <a href="/wiki/Parliament_Buildings_(Northern_Ireland)" title="Parliament Buildings (Northern Ireland)">Parliament Buildings</a> at <a href="/wiki/Stormont_Estate" title="Stormont Estate">Stormont</a>. His successor, J. M. Andrews, was heavily criticised for appointing octogenarian veterans of Lord Craigavon's administration to <a href="/wiki/Andrews_ministry_(Northern_Ireland)" title="Andrews ministry (Northern Ireland)">his cabinet</a>. His government was also believed to be more interested in protecting the statue of Carson at the Stormont Estate than the citizens of Belfast during the <a href="/wiki/Belfast_Blitz" title="Belfast Blitz">Belfast Blitz</a>. A backbench revolt in 1943 resulted in his resignation and replacement by <a href="/wiki/Basil_Brooke,_1st_Viscount_Brookeborough" title="Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough">Sir Basil Brooke</a> (later <a href="/wiki/Viscount_Brookeborough" title="Viscount Brookeborough">Viscount Brookeborough</a>), although Andrews was recognised as leader of the party until 1946. </p><p>Lord Brookeborough, despite having felt that Craigavon had held on to power for too long, was Prime Minister for one year longer. During this time he was on more than one occasion called to meetings of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland to explain his actions, most notably following the 1947 Education Act which made the government responsible for the payment of <a href="/wiki/National_Insurance" title="National Insurance">National Insurance</a> contributions of teachers in Catholic Church-controlled schools. <a href="/wiki/Ian_Paisley" title="Ian Paisley">Ian Paisley</a> called for Brookeborough's resignation in 1953 when he refused to sack <a href="/wiki/Brian_Maginess" title="Brian Maginess">Brian Maginess</a> and <a href="/wiki/Clarence_Graham" title="Clarence Graham">Clarence Graham</a>, who had given speeches supporting re-admitting Catholics to the UUP.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He retired in 1963 and was replaced by <a href="/wiki/Terence_O%27Neill" title="Terence O'Neill">Terence O'Neill</a>, who emerged ahead of other candidates, <a href="/wiki/Jack_Andrews" title="Jack Andrews">Jack Andrews</a> and Faulkner. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="1963–1972"><span id="1963.E2.80.931972"></span>1963–1972</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ulster_Unionist_Party&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 1963–1972"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the 1960s, identifying with the <a href="/wiki/Civil_rights_movement" title="Civil rights movement">civil rights movement</a> of <a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Martin Luther King Jr.">Martin Luther King Jr.</a> and encouraged by attempts at reform under O'Neill, various organisations campaigned for civil rights, calling for changes to the system for allocating public housing and the voting system for the local government franchise, which was restricted to (disproportionately Protestant) <a href="/wiki/Rates_(tax)" title="Rates (tax)">rate payers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> O'Neill had pushed through some reforms but in the process the Ulster Unionists became strongly divided. At the <a href="/wiki/1969_Northern_Ireland_general_election" title="1969 Northern Ireland general election">1969 Stormont general election</a> UUP candidates stood on both pro- and anti-O'Neill platforms. Several independent pro-O'Neill unionists challenging his critics, while the <a href="/wiki/Protestant_Unionist_Party" title="Protestant Unionist Party">Protestant Unionist Party</a> of Ian Paisley mounted a hard-line challenge. The result proved inconclusive for O'Neill, who resigned a short time later. His resignation was probably caused by a speech of <a href="/wiki/James_Chichester-Clark" title="James Chichester-Clark">James Chichester-Clark</a> who stated that he disagreed with the timing, but not the principle, of universal suffrage at local elections. </p><p>Chichester-Clark won the <a href="/wiki/1969_Ulster_Unionist_Party_leadership_election" title="1969 Ulster Unionist Party leadership election">leadership election to replace O'Neill</a> and swiftly moved to implement many of O'Neill's reforms. Civil disorder continued to mount, culminating in August 1969 when Catholic <a href="/wiki/Bogside" title="Bogside">Bogside</a> residents clashed with the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Ulster_Constabulary" title="Royal Ulster Constabulary">Royal Ulster Constabulary</a> in <a href="/wiki/Derry" title="Derry">Derry</a> because of an <a href="/wiki/Apprentice_Boys_of_Derry" title="Apprentice Boys of Derry">Apprentice Boys of Derry</a> march, sparking days of riots. Early in 1971, Chichester-Clark flew to London to request further military aid following the <a href="/wiki/1971_Scottish_soldiers%27_killings" title="1971 Scottish soldiers' killings">1971 Scottish soldiers' killings</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> When this was all but refused, he resigned to be <a href="/wiki/1971_Ulster_Unionist_Party_leadership_election" title="1971 Ulster Unionist Party leadership election">replaced by Brian Faulkner</a>. </p><p>Faulkner's government struggled though 1971 and into 1972. After <a href="/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(1972)" title="Bloody Sunday (1972)">Bloody Sunday</a>, the British Government threatened to remove control of the security forces from the devolved government. Faulkner reacted by resigning with his entire cabinet, and the British Government suspended, and eventually abolished, the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Northern_Ireland" title="Parliament of Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland Parliament</a>, replacing it with <a href="/wiki/Direct_rule_(Northern_Ireland)" title="Direct rule (Northern Ireland)">Direct Rule</a>. </p><p>The liberal unionist group, the <a href="/wiki/New_Ulster_Movement" title="New Ulster Movement">New Ulster Movement</a>, which had advocated the policies of Terence O'Neill, left and formed the <a href="/wiki/Alliance_Party_of_Northern_Ireland" title="Alliance Party of Northern Ireland">Alliance Party of Northern Ireland</a> in April 1970, while the emergence of Ian Paisley's Protestant Unionist Party continued to draw off some working-class and more <a href="/wiki/Ulster_loyalism" title="Ulster loyalism"> loyalist</a> support. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1972–1995"><span id="1972.E2.80.931995"></span>1972–1995</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ulster_Unionist_Party&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 1972–1995"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Troubled_Images_Exhibition,_Belfast,_August_2010_(03).JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Troubled_Images_Exhibition%2C_Belfast%2C_August_2010_%2803%29.JPG/220px-Troubled_Images_Exhibition%2C_Belfast%2C_August_2010_%2803%29.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="276" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Troubled_Images_Exhibition%2C_Belfast%2C_August_2010_%2803%29.JPG/330px-Troubled_Images_Exhibition%2C_Belfast%2C_August_2010_%2803%29.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Troubled_Images_Exhibition%2C_Belfast%2C_August_2010_%2803%29.JPG/440px-Troubled_Images_Exhibition%2C_Belfast%2C_August_2010_%2803%29.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2575" data-file-height="3226" /></a><figcaption>Ulster Unionist Party, 1974. Troubled Images Exhibition, Linen Hall Library, Belfast, August 2010</figcaption></figure> <p>In June 1973 the UUP won a majority of seats in the new <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland_Assembly_(1973)" title="Northern Ireland Assembly (1973)">Northern Ireland Assembly</a>, but the party was divided on policy. The <a href="/wiki/Sunningdale_Agreement" title="Sunningdale Agreement">Sunningdale Agreement</a>, which led to the formation of a power-sharing Executive under Ulster Unionist leader <a href="/wiki/Brian_Faulkner" title="Brian Faulkner">Brian Faulkner</a>, ruptured the party. In the 1973 elections to the Executive the party found itself divided, a division that did not formally end until January 1974 with the triumph of the anti-Sunningdale faction. Faulkner was then overthrown, and he set up the <a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_of_Northern_Ireland" title="Unionist Party of Northern Ireland">Unionist Party of Northern Ireland</a> (UPNI). The Ulster Unionists were then led by <a href="/wiki/Harry_West" title="Harry West">Harry West</a> from 1974 until 1979. In the <a href="/wiki/February_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="February 1974 United Kingdom general election">February 1974 general election</a>, the party participated in the <a href="/wiki/United_Ulster_Unionist_Council" title="United Ulster Unionist Council">United Ulster Unionist Council</a> (UUUC) with <a href="/wiki/Vanguard_Unionist_Progressive_Party" title="Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party">Vanguard</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Unionist_Party" title="Democratic Unionist Party">Democratic Unionist Party</a>, successor to the Protestant Unionist Party. The result was that the UUUC won 11 out of 12 parliamentary seats in Northern Ireland on a fiercely anti-Sunningdale platform, although they barely won 50% of the overall popular vote. This result was a fatal blow for the Executive, which soon collapsed. </p><p>Up until 1972 the UUP sat with the Conservative Party at <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">Westminster</a>, traditionally taking the Conservative parliamentary <a href="/wiki/Whip_(politics)" title="Whip (politics)">whip</a>. To all intents and purposes the party functioned as the Northern Ireland branch of the Conservative Party. In 1972, in protest over the prorogation of the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Northern_Ireland" title="Parliament of Northern Ireland">Parliament of Northern Ireland</a>, the Westminster Ulster Unionist MPs withdrew from the alliance.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The party remained affiliated to the <a href="/wiki/National_Conservative_Convention" title="National Conservative Convention">National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations</a>, but in 1985, withdrew from it as well, in protest over the <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Irish_Agreement" title="Anglo-Irish Agreement">Anglo-Irish Agreement</a>. Subsequently, the Conservative Party has <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland_Conservatives" title="Northern Ireland Conservatives">organised separately</a> in Northern Ireland, with little electoral success. </p><p>Under West's leadership, the party recruited <a href="/wiki/Enoch_Powell" title="Enoch Powell">Enoch Powell</a>, who became Ulster Unionist MP for <a href="/wiki/South_Down_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="South Down (UK Parliament constituency)">South Down</a> in <a href="/wiki/October_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="October 1974 United Kingdom general election">October 1974</a> after defecting from the Conservatives. Powell advocated a policy of 'integration', whereby Northern Ireland would be administered as an integral part of the United Kingdom. This policy divided both the Ulster Unionists and the wider unionist movement, as Powell's ideas conflicted with those supporting a restoration of devolved government to Northern Ireland. The party also made gains upon the break-up of the <a href="/wiki/Vanguard_Unionist_Progressive_Party" title="Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party">Vanguard Party</a> and its merger back into the Ulster Unionists. The separate <a href="/wiki/United_Ulster_Unionist_Party" title="United Ulster Unionist Party">United Ulster Unionist Party</a> (UUUP) emerged from the remains of Vanguard but folded in the early 1980s, as did the UPNI. In both cases the main beneficiaries of this were the Ulster Unionists, now under the leadership of <a href="/wiki/James_Molyneaux,_Baron_Molyneaux_of_Killead" title="James Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead">James Molyneaux</a> (1979–95). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Trimble_leadership">Trimble leadership</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ulster_Unionist_Party&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Trimble leadership"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/David_Trimble" title="David Trimble">David Trimble</a> led the party between 1995 and 2005. His support for the <a href="/wiki/Good_Friday_Agreement" title="Good Friday Agreement">Belfast Agreement</a> caused a rupture within the party into pro-agreement and anti-agreement factions. Trimble served as <a href="/wiki/First_Minister_and_deputy_First_Minister_of_Northern_Ireland" class="mw-redirect" title="First Minister and deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland">First Minister of Northern Ireland</a> in the power-sharing administration created under the <a href="/wiki/Good_Friday_Agreement" title="Good Friday Agreement">Belfast Agreement</a>. </p><p>Unusually for a unionist party, the UUP had a Catholic <a href="/wiki/Member_of_the_Legislative_Assembly_(Northern_Ireland)" title="Member of the Legislative Assembly (Northern Ireland)">MLA</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland_Assembly" title="Northern Ireland Assembly">Northern Ireland Assembly</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Gorman_(politician)" title="John Gorman (politician)">Sir John Gorman</a> until the 2003 election. In March 2005, the Orange Order voted to end its official links with the UUP. Trimble faced down Orange Order critics who tried to suspend him for his attendance at a Catholic funeral for a young boy killed by the <a href="/wiki/Real_Irish_Republican_Army" title="Real Irish Republican Army">Real IRA</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Omagh_bombing" title="Omagh bombing">Omagh bombing</a>. In a sign of unity, Trimble and <a href="/wiki/President_of_Ireland" title="President of Ireland">President of Ireland</a> <a href="/wiki/Mary_McAleese" title="Mary McAleese">Mary McAleese</a> walked into the church together. </p><p>In the 2001 general election, the Ulster Unionists lost a number of seats belonging to UUP stalwarts; for example, <a href="/wiki/John_Taylor,_Baron_Kilclooney" title="John Taylor, Baron Kilclooney">John Taylor</a>, the former deputy leader of the party, lost his seat of <a href="/wiki/Strangford_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Strangford (UK Parliament constituency)">Strangford</a> to <a href="/wiki/Iris_Robinson" title="Iris Robinson">Iris Robinson</a>. </p><p>The party held six seats at Westminster immediately before the 2005 general election, down from seven after the previous general election following the defection of <a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Donaldson" title="Jeffrey Donaldson">Jeffrey Donaldson</a> in 2004. The election resulted in the loss of five of their six seats. The only seat won by an Ulster Unionist was North Down, by <a href="/wiki/Sylvia_Hermon" title="Sylvia Hermon">Sylvia Hermon</a>, who had won the seat in the 2001 general election from Robert McCartney of <a href="/wiki/UK_Unionist_Party" title="UK Unionist Party">UK Unionist Party</a>. <a href="/wiki/David_Trimble" title="David Trimble">David Trimble</a> himself lost his seat in <a href="/wiki/Upper_Bann_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Upper Bann (UK Parliament constituency)">Upper Bann</a> and resigned as party leader soon after. The ensuing <a href="/wiki/2005_Ulster_Unionist_Party_leadership_election" title="2005 Ulster Unionist Party leadership election">leadership election</a> was won by <a href="/wiki/Reg_Empey" title="Reg Empey">Reg Empey</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Empey_leadership">Empey leadership</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ulster_Unionist_Party&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Empey leadership"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In May 2006 UUP leader Empey attempted to create a new assembly group that would have included <a href="/wiki/Progressive_Unionist_Party" title="Progressive Unionist Party">Progressive Unionist Party</a> (PUP) leader <a href="/wiki/David_Ervine" title="David Ervine">David Ervine</a>. The PUP is the political wing of the illegal <a href="/wiki/Ulster_Volunteer_Force" title="Ulster Volunteer Force">Ulster Volunteer Force</a> (UVF).<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many in the UUP, including the last remaining MP, <a href="/wiki/Sylvia_Hermon" title="Sylvia Hermon">Sylvia Hermon</a>, were opposed to the move.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The link was in the form of a new group called the 'Ulster Unionist Party Assembly Group' whose membership was the 24 UUP MLAs and Ervine. Empey justified the link by stating that under the <a href="/wiki/D%27Hondt_method" title="D'Hondt method">d'Hondt method</a> for allocating ministers in the Assembly, the new group would take a seat in the Executive from Sinn Féin. </p><p>Following a request for a ruling from the DUP's <a href="/wiki/Peter_Robinson_(Northern_Ireland_politician)" title="Peter Robinson (Northern Ireland politician)">Peter Robinson</a>, the Speaker ruled that the UUPAG was not a political party within the meaning of the <a href="/wiki/Political_Parties,_Elections_and_Referendums_Act_2000" title="Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000">Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The party lost 9 seats in the <a href="/wiki/2007_Northern_Ireland_Assembly_election" title="2007 Northern Ireland Assembly election">2007 Northern Ireland Assembly election</a>, retaining 18 MLAs.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Empey was the only leader of one of the four main parties not to be re-elected on first preference votes alone in the Assembly elections of March 2007. </p><p>In July 2008, the UUP and Conservative Party announced that a joint working group had been established to examine closer ties. On 26 February 2009, the Ulster Unionist Executive and area council of Northern Ireland Conservatives agreed to field joint candidates in future elections to the House of Commons and European Parliament under the name "<a href="/wiki/Ulster_Conservatives_and_Unionists" title="Ulster Conservatives and Unionists">Ulster Conservatives and Unionists – New Force</a>" (UCUNF). The agreement meant that Ulster Unionist MPs could have sat in a Conservative Government, renewing the relationship that had broken down in 1974 over the <a href="/wiki/Sunningdale_Agreement" title="Sunningdale Agreement">Sunningdale Agreement</a> and in 1985 over the <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Irish_Agreement" title="Anglo-Irish Agreement">Anglo-Irish Agreement</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-news.bbc.co.uk_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-news.bbc.co.uk-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The UUP's sole remaining MP at the time, Sylvia Hermon, opposed the agreement, stating she would not be willing to stand under the UCUNF banner.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In February 2010, Hermon confirmed that she would not be seeking a nomination as a UCUNF candidate for the forthcoming general election.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 25 March 2010, she formally resigned from the party and announced that she would be standing as an independent candidate at the general election.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a result, the UUP were left without representation in the House of Commons for the first time since the party's creation. At the <a href="/wiki/2010_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2010 United Kingdom general election">2010 general election</a>, UCUNF won no seats in Northern Ireland (while Hermon won hers as an independent). The UCUNF label was not used again. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elliott_leadership">Elliott leadership</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ulster_Unionist_Party&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Elliott leadership"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Following the election, Empey resigned as leader. He was replaced by <a href="/wiki/Tom_Elliott_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tom Elliott (politician)">Tom Elliott</a> as party leader in the subsequent <a href="/wiki/2010_Ulster_Unionist_Party_leadership_election" title="2010 Ulster Unionist Party leadership election">leadership election</a>. During the leadership election, it emerged that a quarter of the UUP membership came from <a href="/wiki/Fermanagh_and_South_Tyrone_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Fermanagh and South Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency)">Fermanagh and South Tyrone</a>, the constituency of Elliott.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Dublin-based political magazine, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Phoenix_(magazine)" title="The Phoenix (magazine)">the Phoenix</a></i>, described Elliott as a "blast from the past" and said that his election signified "a significant shift to the right" by the UUP.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shortly after his election, three 2010 general election candidates resigned: Harry Hamilton, Paula Bradshaw and <a href="/wiki/Trevor_Ringland" title="Trevor Ringland">Trevor Ringland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bradshaw and Hamilton subsequently joined the Alliance Party.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Strandtown_Hall,_2-4_Belmont_Road,_Belfast.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Strandtown_Hall%2C_2-4_Belmont_Road%2C_Belfast.jpg/220px-Strandtown_Hall%2C_2-4_Belmont_Road%2C_Belfast.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Strandtown_Hall%2C_2-4_Belmont_Road%2C_Belfast.jpg/330px-Strandtown_Hall%2C_2-4_Belmont_Road%2C_Belfast.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Strandtown_Hall%2C_2-4_Belmont_Road%2C_Belfast.jpg/440px-Strandtown_Hall%2C_2-4_Belmont_Road%2C_Belfast.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3177" data-file-height="2889" /></a><figcaption>UUP Headquarters – Strandtown Hall, Belfast</figcaption></figure> <p>The party lost two seats in the <a href="/wiki/2011_Northern_Ireland_Assembly_election" title="2011 Northern Ireland Assembly election">2011 Assembly elections</a> and won fewer votes than the nationalist <a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_and_Labour_Party" title="Social Democratic and Labour Party">Social Democratic and Labour Party</a> (SDLP) (although it won more seats than the SDLP). Two of its candidates, Bill Manwaring and Lesley Macaulay, subsequently joined the Conservative Party. In the <a href="/wiki/2011_Northern_Ireland_local_elections" title="2011 Northern Ireland local elections">2011 local elections</a> it lost seats to the Alliance Party east of the Bann and was also overtaken by them on Belfast City Council.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Tom_Elliott_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tom Elliott (politician)">Tom Elliott</a> was criticised for comments he made in his victory speech where he described elements of Sinn Féin as "scum".<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Elliott resigned in March 2012 saying some people had not given him a 'fair opportunity' to develop and progress many party initiatives.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Mike_Nesbitt" title="Mike Nesbitt">Mike Nesbitt</a> was elected leader on 31 March 2012, beating <a href="/wiki/John_McCallister" title="John McCallister">John McCallister</a>, by 536 votes to 129.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="First_Nesbitt_leadership">First Nesbitt leadership</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ulster_Unionist_Party&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: First Nesbitt leadership"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/2014_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="2014 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom">2014 European election</a> <a href="/wiki/Jim_Nicholson_(Northern_Ireland_politician)" title="Jim Nicholson (Northern Ireland politician)">Jim Nicholson</a> held his MEP seat, although his percentage of the vote decreased to 13.3% (−3.8%). The party gained 15 seats in the <a href="/wiki/2014_Northern_Ireland_local_elections" title="2014 Northern Ireland local elections">local elections</a> that same day. They polled 16.1% (+0.9%), making it the only party to increase its vote share. </p><p>At the <a href="/wiki/2015_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2015 United Kingdom general election">2015 general election</a>, the UUP returned to Westminster, gaining the South Antrim seat from the DUP and Fermanagh & South Tyrone (where they had an electoral pact with the DUP not standing) from Sinn Féin.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2016, the UUP and the SDLP decided not to accept the seats on the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland_Executive" title="Northern Ireland Executive">Northern Ireland Executive</a> to which they would have been entitled and to form an official opposition to the executive. This marked the first time that a <a href="/wiki/Devolution" title="Devolution">devolved government</a> in Northern Ireland did not include the UUP. </p><p>In the 2016 <a href="/wiki/2016_United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum" title="2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum">European Union referendum</a> the UUP was the only unionist party to support the remain campaign, the UUP Executive passing a motion on 5 March 2016 that the party "believes that on balance Northern Ireland is better remaining in the European Union, with the UK Government pressing for further reform and a return to the founding principle of free trade, not greater political union. The Party respects that individual members may vote for withdrawal."<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Swann_leadership">Swann leadership</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ulster_Unionist_Party&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Swann leadership"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At the <a href="/wiki/2017_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2017 United Kingdom general election">2017 general election</a> the UUP lost both of its Commons seats, losing South Antrim to the DUP and Fermanagh & South Tyrone to Sinn Féin.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The party polled 10.3% (−5.7%) and failed to take any other seats. </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/2019_Northern_Ireland_local_elections" title="2019 Northern Ireland local elections">2019 local elections</a> the UUP polled 14.1% (−2.0) winning 75 council seats, 13 fewer than in 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>They lost their single MEP at the <a href="/wiki/2019_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="2019 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom">2019 European Parliament elections</a> following the retirement of Jim Nicholson.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Danny_Kennedy_(politician)" title="Danny Kennedy (politician)">Danny Kennedy</a> stood as the UUP candidate polling 9.3% (−4.0%). <a href="/wiki/Steve_Aiken" title="Steve Aiken">Steve Aiken</a> succeeded <a href="/wiki/Robin_Swann" title="Robin Swann">Robin Swann</a> as leader in November 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Aiken_leadership">Aiken leadership</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ulster_Unionist_Party&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Aiken leadership"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The party increased its vote share to 11.7% (+1.4%) in the <a href="/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2019 United Kingdom general election">2019 general election</a>, but failed to re-gain a seat. Their best result was in Fermanagh and South Tyrone, where Tom Elliott lost to Sinn Féin by 57 votes. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Beattie_leadership">Beattie leadership</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ulster_Unionist_Party&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Beattie leadership"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Steve Aiken resigned on 8 May 2021, and <a href="/wiki/Doug_Beattie" title="Doug Beattie">Doug Beattie</a> was elected as <a href="/wiki/Leaders_of_the_Ulster_Unionist_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Leaders of the Ulster Unionist Party">leader</a> on 17 May 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Beattie, a former soldier, is perceived as a progressive unionist, and it was predicted that following his election as leader, the party would reclaim some of the centre ground that they had lost to the Alliance Party.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After Beattie became leader, a number of new members joined the party including former <a href="/wiki/Belfast_City_Council" title="Belfast City Council">Belfast</a> PUP councillor Julie-Anne Corr-Johnston, <a href="/wiki/Derry_City_and_Strabane_District_Council" title="Derry City and Strabane District Council">Derry and Strabane</a> DUP councillor Ryan McCready, former Independent <a href="/wiki/Seanad_%C3%89ireann" title="Seanad Éireann">Irish Senator</a> <a href="/wiki/Ian_Marshall_(politician)" title="Ian Marshall (politician)">Ian Marshall</a>, Belfast Alliance Party councillor Carole Howard and Belfast PUP councillor <a href="/wiki/John_Kyle_(Northern_Ireland_politician)" title="John Kyle (Northern Ireland politician)">John Kyle</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In October 2021, <a href="/wiki/Newry_and_Mourne_District_Council" title="Newry and Mourne District Council">Newry and Mourne</a> UUP councillor <a href="/wiki/Harold_McKee" title="Harold McKee">Harold McKee</a> resigned from the party because of Beattie's promotion of 'liberal values'.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In January 2022, Beattie made what some saw as a <a href="/wiki/Misogynistic" class="mw-redirect" title="Misogynistic">misogynistic</a> joke about <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Agriculture,_Environment_and_Rural_Affairs" title="Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs">DAERA</a> minister <a href="/wiki/Edwin_Poots" title="Edwin Poots">Edwin Poots</a> and his wife. After this, it was found that he had made other controversial jokes on social media, before entering politics, and he made a statement apologizing.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The party contested all 18 constituencies in the <a href="/wiki/2022_Northern_Ireland_Assembly_election" title="2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election">2022 Assembly election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They received 96,390 votes, 11.2% of the total, down 1.7% from the <a href="/wiki/2017_Northern_Ireland_Assembly_election" title="2017 Northern Ireland Assembly election">2017 Assembly election</a>. They had 9 MLAs elected, down 1 from 2017 after <a href="/wiki/Roy_Beggs_Jr" title="Roy Beggs Jr">Roy Beggs Jr</a> lost his seat in <a href="/wiki/East_Antrim_(Assembly_constituency)" title="East Antrim (Assembly constituency)">East Antrim</a> to Alliance.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/2023_Northern_Ireland_local_elections" title="2023 Northern Ireland local elections">2023 local elections</a>, Beattie characterised the election as a 'choice between delivery or dysfunction'.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The UUP ran 101 candidates across the 11 councils,<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with a manifesto pledging 'city and growth deals', the appointment of 'prompt payment champions' to each council, 'below inflation rate rises' and the devolution of regeneration powers to councils.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They received 81,282 votes, 10.9% of the total, down 3.2% from the <a href="/wiki/2019_Northern_Ireland_local_elections" title="2019 Northern Ireland local elections">2019 local elections</a>. The party had 54 councillors elected, down 21 from 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following the losses for the UUP in the 2023 local elections, Beattie said that unionism was always likely to "take a hit across the board" due to <a href="/wiki/Sinn_F%C3%A9in" title="Sinn Féin">Sinn Féin</a>'s gains.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Westminster_election_2024.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Westminster_election_2024.jpg/220px-Westminster_election_2024.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Westminster_election_2024.jpg/330px-Westminster_election_2024.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Westminster_election_2024.jpg/440px-Westminster_election_2024.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1462" data-file-height="1949" /></a><figcaption>Westminster election 2024, Holywood, Co. Down</figcaption></figure> <p>Ahead of the <a href="/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2024 United Kingdom general election">2024 general election</a>, the UUP 'absolutely' ruled out an <a href="/wiki/Electoral_pact" class="mw-redirect" title="Electoral pact">electoral pact</a> with the DUP. <a href="/wiki/Robbie_Butler" title="Robbie Butler">Robbie Butler</a>, the UUP's deputy leader, said that politics is about "maximising and having confidence in your own voice."<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In January 2024, it was announced that Iraq veteran <a href="/wiki/Tim_Collins_(British_Army_officer)" title="Tim Collins (British Army officer)">Tim Collins</a> had joined the UUP and been selected as the party's prospective parliamentary candidate for the <a href="/wiki/North_Down_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="North Down (UK Parliament constituency)">North Down</a> constituency.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2024, <a href="/wiki/Antrim_and_Newtownabbey_Borough_Council" title="Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council">Antrim and Newtownabbey</a> Councillor, Paul Michael quit the party following the decision to replace Robin Swann with Mike Nesbitt as <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Health_(Northern_Ireland)" title="Department of Health (Northern Ireland)">Health Minister</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The UUP returned to Westminster following the 2024 general election and <a href="/wiki/Robin_Swann" title="Robin Swann">Robin Swann's</a> victory in <a href="/wiki/South_Antrim_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="South Antrim (UK Parliament constituency)">South Antrim</a>. Beattie announced he was stepping down as leader in August 2024 and was succeeded by former leader <a href="/wiki/Mike_Nesbitt" title="Mike Nesbitt">Mike Nesbitt</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Leaders">Leaders</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ulster_Unionist_Party&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Leaders"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Image </th> <th>Name </th> <th colspan="2">Tenure </th> <th>Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Photograph_of_Colonel_Edward_James_Saunderson_MP_2.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Photograph_of_Colonel_Edward_James_Saunderson_MP_2.png/80px-Photograph_of_Colonel_Edward_James_Saunderson_MP_2.png" decoding="async" width="80" height="107" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Photograph_of_Colonel_Edward_James_Saunderson_MP_2.png/120px-Photograph_of_Colonel_Edward_James_Saunderson_MP_2.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Photograph_of_Colonel_Edward_James_Saunderson_MP_2.png/160px-Photograph_of_Colonel_Edward_James_Saunderson_MP_2.png 2x" data-file-width="661" data-file-height="882" /></a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Edward_James_Saunderson" title="Edward James Saunderson">Colonel Edward Saunderson</a></td> <td>1905</td> <td>1906</td> <td>Also leader of the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Unionist_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish Unionist Party">Irish Unionist Party</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Walter_Hume_Long,_1st_Viscount_Long_portrait.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Walter_Hume_Long%2C_1st_Viscount_Long_portrait.jpg/80px-Walter_Hume_Long%2C_1st_Viscount_Long_portrait.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="107" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Walter_Hume_Long%2C_1st_Viscount_Long_portrait.jpg/120px-Walter_Hume_Long%2C_1st_Viscount_Long_portrait.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Walter_Hume_Long%2C_1st_Viscount_Long_portrait.jpg/160px-Walter_Hume_Long%2C_1st_Viscount_Long_portrait.jpg 2x" data-file-width="351" data-file-height="469" /></a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Walter_Long,_1st_Viscount_Long" title="Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long">Walter Hume Long</a></td> <td>1906</td> <td>1910</td> <td>Also leader of the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Unionist_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish Unionist Party">Irish Unionist Party</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sir_Edward_Carson,_bw_photo_portrait_seated.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Sir_Edward_Carson%2C_bw_photo_portrait_seated.jpg/80px-Sir_Edward_Carson%2C_bw_photo_portrait_seated.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="121" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Sir_Edward_Carson%2C_bw_photo_portrait_seated.jpg/120px-Sir_Edward_Carson%2C_bw_photo_portrait_seated.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Sir_Edward_Carson%2C_bw_photo_portrait_seated.jpg/160px-Sir_Edward_Carson%2C_bw_photo_portrait_seated.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3153" data-file-height="4762" /></a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Edward_Carson" title="Edward Carson">Sir Edward Carson</a></td> <td>1910</td> <td>1921</td> <td>Also leader of the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Unionist_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish Unionist Party">Irish Unionist Party</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:James_Craig,_1st_Viscount_Craigavon.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/42/James_Craig%2C_1st_Viscount_Craigavon.jpg/80px-James_Craig%2C_1st_Viscount_Craigavon.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="108" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/42/James_Craig%2C_1st_Viscount_Craigavon.jpg/120px-James_Craig%2C_1st_Viscount_Craigavon.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/42/James_Craig%2C_1st_Viscount_Craigavon.jpg/160px-James_Craig%2C_1st_Viscount_Craigavon.jpg 2x" data-file-width="595" data-file-height="800" /></a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/James_Craig,_1st_Viscount_Craigavon" title="James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon">The Viscount Craigavon</a></td> <td>1921</td> <td>1940</td> <td>1st <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Northern_Ireland" title="Prime Minister of Northern Ireland">Prime Minister of Northern Ireland</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:John_Miller_Andrews.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/John_Miller_Andrews.jpg/80px-John_Miller_Andrews.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="102" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/John_Miller_Andrews.jpg/120px-John_Miller_Andrews.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/John_Miller_Andrews.jpg/160px-John_Miller_Andrews.jpg 2x" data-file-width="308" data-file-height="393" /></a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/J._M._Andrews" title="J. M. Andrews">J. M. Andrews</a></td> <td>1940</td> <td>1943</td> <td>2nd <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Northern_Ireland" title="Prime Minister of Northern Ireland">Prime Minister of Northern Ireland</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sir_Basil_Brooke,_10_February_1941.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Sir_Basil_Brooke%2C_10_February_1941.png/80px-Sir_Basil_Brooke%2C_10_February_1941.png" decoding="async" width="80" height="107" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Sir_Basil_Brooke%2C_10_February_1941.png/120px-Sir_Basil_Brooke%2C_10_February_1941.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Sir_Basil_Brooke%2C_10_February_1941.png/160px-Sir_Basil_Brooke%2C_10_February_1941.png 2x" data-file-width="559" data-file-height="745" /></a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Basil_Brooke,_1st_Viscount_Brookeborough" title="Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough">The Viscount Brookeborough</a></td> <td>1943</td> <td>1963</td> <td>3rd <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Northern_Ireland" title="Prime Minister of Northern Ireland">Prime Minister of Northern Ireland</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Prime_Minister_of_Northern_Ireland._Captain_Rt._Hon._Terence_O%27Neill_1966_(cropped).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Prime_Minister_of_Northern_Ireland._Captain_Rt._Hon._Terence_O%27Neill_1966_%28cropped%29.png/80px-Prime_Minister_of_Northern_Ireland._Captain_Rt._Hon._Terence_O%27Neill_1966_%28cropped%29.png" decoding="async" width="80" height="85" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Prime_Minister_of_Northern_Ireland._Captain_Rt._Hon._Terence_O%27Neill_1966_%28cropped%29.png/120px-Prime_Minister_of_Northern_Ireland._Captain_Rt._Hon._Terence_O%27Neill_1966_%28cropped%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Prime_Minister_of_Northern_Ireland._Captain_Rt._Hon._Terence_O%27Neill_1966_%28cropped%29.png/160px-Prime_Minister_of_Northern_Ireland._Captain_Rt._Hon._Terence_O%27Neill_1966_%28cropped%29.png 2x" data-file-width="393" data-file-height="420" /></a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Terence_O%27Neill" title="Terence O'Neill">Captain Terence O'Neill</a></td> <td>1963</td> <td>1969</td> <td>4th <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Northern_Ireland" title="Prime Minister of Northern Ireland">Prime Minister of Northern Ireland</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:James_Chichester-Clark_1970.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/James_Chichester-Clark_1970.jpg/80px-James_Chichester-Clark_1970.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="107" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/James_Chichester-Clark_1970.jpg/120px-James_Chichester-Clark_1970.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/James_Chichester-Clark_1970.jpg/160px-James_Chichester-Clark_1970.jpg 2x" data-file-width="880" data-file-height="1173" /></a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/James_Chichester-Clark" title="James Chichester-Clark">James Chichester-Clark</a></td> <td>1969</td> <td>1971</td> <td>5th <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Northern_Ireland" title="Prime Minister of Northern Ireland">Prime Minister of Northern Ireland</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Brian_Faulkner_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Brian_Faulkner_%28cropped%29.jpg/80px-Brian_Faulkner_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="107" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Brian_Faulkner_%28cropped%29.jpg/120px-Brian_Faulkner_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Brian_Faulkner_%28cropped%29.jpg/160px-Brian_Faulkner_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="808" data-file-height="1077" /></a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Brian_Faulkner" title="Brian Faulkner">Brian Faulkner</a></td> <td>1971</td> <td>1974</td> <td>6th and final <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Northern_Ireland" title="Prime Minister of Northern Ireland">Prime Minister of Northern Ireland</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:No_image.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/No_image.svg/80px-No_image.svg.png" decoding="async" width="80" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/No_image.svg/120px-No_image.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/No_image.svg/160px-No_image.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1" data-file-height="1" /></a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Harry_West" title="Harry West">Harry West</a></td> <td>1974</td> <td>1979</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:No_image.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/No_image.svg/80px-No_image.svg.png" decoding="async" width="80" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/No_image.svg/120px-No_image.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/No_image.svg/160px-No_image.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1" data-file-height="1" /></a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/James_Molyneaux,_Baron_Molyneaux_of_Killead" title="James Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead">James Molyneaux</a></td> <td>1979</td> <td>1995</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:David_Trimble.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/David_Trimble.jpg/80px-David_Trimble.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/David_Trimble.jpg/120px-David_Trimble.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/David_Trimble.jpg/160px-David_Trimble.jpg 2x" data-file-width="414" data-file-height="621" /></a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/David_Trimble" title="David Trimble">David Trimble</a></td> <td>1995</td> <td>2005</td> <td><a href="/wiki/First_Minister_of_Northern_Ireland" class="mw-redirect" title="First Minister of Northern Ireland">First Minister of Northern Ireland</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Official_portrait_of_Lord_Empey_crop_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Official_portrait_of_Lord_Empey_crop_2.jpg/80px-Official_portrait_of_Lord_Empey_crop_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="107" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Official_portrait_of_Lord_Empey_crop_2.jpg/120px-Official_portrait_of_Lord_Empey_crop_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Official_portrait_of_Lord_Empey_crop_2.jpg/160px-Official_portrait_of_Lord_Empey_crop_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1554" data-file-height="2072" /></a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Reg_Empey" title="Reg Empey">Sir Reg Empey</a></td> <td>2005</td> <td>2010</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Tom_Elliott.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Tom_Elliott.png/80px-Tom_Elliott.png" decoding="async" width="80" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Tom_Elliott.png/120px-Tom_Elliott.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Tom_Elliott.png/160px-Tom_Elliott.png 2x" data-file-width="558" data-file-height="625" /></a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tom_Elliott_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tom Elliott (politician)">Tom Elliott</a></td> <td>2010</td> <td>2012</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Mike_Nesbitt.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Mike_Nesbitt.png/80px-Mike_Nesbitt.png" decoding="async" width="80" height="122" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Mike_Nesbitt.png/120px-Mike_Nesbitt.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Mike_Nesbitt.png/160px-Mike_Nesbitt.png 2x" data-file-width="190" data-file-height="289" /></a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mike_Nesbitt" title="Mike Nesbitt">Mike Nesbitt</a></td> <td>2012</td> <td>2017</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Robin_Swann_2020.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Robin_Swann_2020.jpg/80px-Robin_Swann_2020.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="107" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Robin_Swann_2020.jpg/120px-Robin_Swann_2020.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Robin_Swann_2020.jpg/160px-Robin_Swann_2020.jpg 2x" data-file-width="483" data-file-height="644" /></a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Robin_Swann" title="Robin Swann">Robin Swann</a></td> <td>2017</td> <td>2019</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Steve_Aiken_(2020).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Steve_Aiken_%282020%29.png/80px-Steve_Aiken_%282020%29.png" decoding="async" width="80" height="95" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Steve_Aiken_%282020%29.png/120px-Steve_Aiken_%282020%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Steve_Aiken_%282020%29.png/160px-Steve_Aiken_%282020%29.png 2x" data-file-width="261" data-file-height="309" /></a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Steve_Aiken" title="Steve Aiken">Steve Aiken</a></td> <td>2019</td> <td>2021 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Doug_Beattie.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Doug_Beattie.png/80px-Doug_Beattie.png" decoding="async" width="80" height="110" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Doug_Beattie.png/120px-Doug_Beattie.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Doug_Beattie.png/160px-Doug_Beattie.png 2x" data-file-width="190" data-file-height="262" /></a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Doug_Beattie" title="Doug Beattie">Doug Beattie</a></td> <td>2021</td> <td>2024 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Mike_Nesbitt_2024.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Mike_Nesbitt_2024.jpg/80px-Mike_Nesbitt_2024.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="92" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Mike_Nesbitt_2024.jpg/120px-Mike_Nesbitt_2024.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Mike_Nesbitt_2024.jpg/160px-Mike_Nesbitt_2024.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1182" data-file-height="1363" /></a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mike_Nesbitt" title="Mike Nesbitt">Mike Nesbitt</a></td> <td>2024</td> <td>present</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Department_of_Health_(Northern_Ireland)" title="Department of Health (Northern Ireland)">Minister of Health</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Structure">Structure</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ulster_Unionist_Party&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Structure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output 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Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">March 2019</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The UUP is organised around the Ulster Unionist Council, which was from 1905 until 2004 the only legal representation of the party. Following the adoption of a new Constitution in 2004, the UUP has been an entity in its own right, however the UUC still exists as the supreme decision-making body of the Party.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> In autumn 2007 the delegates system was done away with, and today all UUP members are members of the Ulster Unionist Council, with entitlements to vote for the Leader, party officers and on major policy decisions.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Each constituency in Northern Ireland forms the boundary of a UUP constituency association, which is made up of branches formed along local boundaries (usually district electoral areas). There are also four 'representative bodies', the Ulster Women's Unionist Council, the <a href="/wiki/Young_Unionists" title="Young Unionists">Ulster Young Unionist Council</a>, the Westminster Unionist Association (the party's Great Britain branch) and the Ulster Unionist Councillors Association. Each constituency association and representative body elects a number of delegates to the executive committee, which governs many areas of party administration such as membership and candidate selection.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The UUP maintained a formal connection with the Orange Order from its foundation until 2005, and with the <a href="/wiki/Apprentice_Boys_of_Derry" title="Apprentice Boys of Derry">Apprentice Boys of Derry</a> until 1975.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> While the party was considering structural reforms, including the connection with the Order, it was the Order itself that severed the connection in 2004. The connection with the Apprentice Boys was cut in a 1975 review of the party's structure as they had not taken up their delegates for several years beforehand.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Youth_wing">Youth wing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ulster_Unionist_Party&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Youth wing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The UUP's youth organisation is the <a href="/wiki/Young_Unionists" title="Young Unionists">Young Unionists</a>, which was re-constituted by young activists in March 2004 as a rebrand of the Ulster Young Unionist Council. The UYUC was formed in 1946 and disbanded twice, in 1974 and 2004. There is a Young Unionist student association in <a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_University_Belfast" title="Queen's University Belfast">Queen's University Belfast</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Representatives">Representatives</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ulster_Unionist_Party&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Representatives"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom">Parliament of the United Kingdom</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ulster_Unionist_Party&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Parliament of the United Kingdom"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>Members of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a> as elected in July 2024:</b> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Portrait </th> <th>Name </th> <th>Since </th> <th>Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Robin_Swann_2020.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Robin_Swann_2020.jpg/80px-Robin_Swann_2020.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="107" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Robin_Swann_2020.jpg/120px-Robin_Swann_2020.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Robin_Swann_2020.jpg/160px-Robin_Swann_2020.jpg 2x" data-file-width="483" data-file-height="644" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Robin_Swann" title="Robin Swann">Robin Swann</a> </td> <td>2024 </td> <td>MLA for <a href="/wiki/North_Antrim_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="North Antrim (UK Parliament constituency)">North Antrim</a> (2011-2024) <p>Former <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Ulster_Unionist_Party" title="Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party">Leader</a> (2017-2019) and <a href="/wiki/Ulster_Unionist_Chief_Whip" title="Ulster Unionist Chief Whip">Chief Whip</a> (2012-2017) of the UUP </p> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The party stood candidates in 17 of the 18 Northern Ireland constituencies in the <a href="/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2024 United Kingdom general election">2024 election</a>. The party announced it would not be standing a candidate in <a href="/wiki/North_Belfast_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="North Belfast (UK Parliament constituency)">North Belfast</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>Members of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Lords" title="House of Lords">House of Lords</a> as of June 2024:</b> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Portrait </th> <th>Name </th> <th>Since </th> <th>Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Official_portrait_of_Lord_Empey_crop_2,_2024.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Official_portrait_of_Lord_Empey_crop_2%2C_2024.jpg/150px-Official_portrait_of_Lord_Empey_crop_2%2C_2024.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Official_portrait_of_Lord_Empey_crop_2%2C_2024.jpg/225px-Official_portrait_of_Lord_Empey_crop_2%2C_2024.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Official_portrait_of_Lord_Empey_crop_2%2C_2024.jpg/300px-Official_portrait_of_Lord_Empey_crop_2%2C_2024.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="2000" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Reg_Empey" title="Reg Empey">The Lord Empey</a> </td> <td>2011 </td> <td>Former Northern Ireland MLA for <a href="/wiki/Belfast_East_(Assembly_constituency)" title="Belfast East (Assembly constituency)">Belfast East</a> (1998-2011) <p>Former <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Ulster_Unionist_Party" title="Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party">Leader</a> (2005-2010) and Chairman (2012-2019) of the UUP </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Official_portrait_of_Lord_Rogan_crop_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Official_portrait_of_Lord_Rogan_crop_2.jpg/150px-Official_portrait_of_Lord_Rogan_crop_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Official_portrait_of_Lord_Rogan_crop_2.jpg/225px-Official_portrait_of_Lord_Rogan_crop_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Official_portrait_of_Lord_Rogan_crop_2.jpg/300px-Official_portrait_of_Lord_Rogan_crop_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1554" data-file-height="2072" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dennis_Rogan,_Baron_Rogan" title="Dennis Rogan, Baron Rogan">The Lord Rogan</a> </td> <td>1999 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Senior_Deputy_Speaker_of_the_House_of_Lords" title="Senior Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords">Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords</a> (2018-present) <p>Leader of the UUP in the House of Lords (2009-present) </p><p>President of the UUP (2004-2006) </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Tom_Elliott_MLA_Feb_24_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Tom_Elliott_MLA_Feb_24_%28cropped%29.jpg/150px-Tom_Elliott_MLA_Feb_24_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Tom_Elliott_MLA_Feb_24_%28cropped%29.jpg/225px-Tom_Elliott_MLA_Feb_24_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Tom_Elliott_MLA_Feb_24_%28cropped%29.jpg/300px-Tom_Elliott_MLA_Feb_24_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="576" data-file-height="768" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tom_Elliott,_Baron_Elliott_of_Ballinamallard" title="Tom Elliott, Baron Elliott of Ballinamallard">The Lord Elliott of Ballinamallard</a> </td> <td>2024 </td> <td>MLA for <a href="/wiki/Fermanagh_and_South_Tyrone_(Assembly_constituency)" title="Fermanagh and South Tyrone (Assembly constituency)">Fermanagh and South Tyrone</a> (2003-2015, 2022-present) <p>Chair of the <a href="/wiki/Committee_for_Agriculture,_Environment_and_Rural_Affairs" title="Committee for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs">Committee for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs</a> (2024-present) </p><p>Former Leader of the UUP (2010-2012) </p><p>Former MP for <a href="/wiki/Fermanagh_and_South_Tyrone_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Fermanagh and South Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency)">Fermanagh and South Tyrone</a> (2015-2017) </p> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Northern_Ireland_Assembly">Northern Ireland Assembly</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ulster_Unionist_Party&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Northern Ireland Assembly"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>Members of the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland_Assembly" title="Northern Ireland Assembly">Northern Ireland Assembly</a> as elected in May 2022:</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Aiken" title="Steve Aiken">Steve Aiken</a> – <a href="/wiki/South_Antrim_(Assembly_constituency)" title="South Antrim (Assembly constituency)">South Antrim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andy_Allen_(politician)" title="Andy Allen (politician)">Andy Allen</a> – <a href="/wiki/Belfast_East_(Assembly_constituency)" title="Belfast East (Assembly constituency)">Belfast East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doug_Beattie" title="Doug Beattie">Doug Beattie</a> – <a href="/wiki/Upper_Bann_(Assembly_constituency)" title="Upper Bann (Assembly constituency)">Upper Bann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robbie_Butler" title="Robbie Butler">Robbie Butler</a> – <a href="/wiki/Lagan_Valley_(Assembly_constituency)" title="Lagan Valley (Assembly constituency)">Lagan Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Chambers_(Northern_Ireland_politician)" title="Alan Chambers (Northern Ireland politician)">Alan Chambers</a> – <a href="/wiki/North_Down_(Assembly_constituency)" title="North Down (Assembly constituency)">North Down</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colin_Crawford_(Northern_Ireland_politician)" title="Colin Crawford (Northern Ireland politician)">Colin Crawford</a> – <a href="/wiki/North_Antrim_(Assembly_constituency)" title="North Antrim (Assembly constituency)">North Antrim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diana_Armstrong" title="Diana Armstrong">Diana Armstrong</a> – <a href="/wiki/Fermanagh_and_South_Tyrone_(Assembly_constituency)" title="Fermanagh and South Tyrone (Assembly constituency)">Fermanagh and South Tyrone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Nesbitt" title="Mike Nesbitt">Mike Nesbitt</a> – <a href="/wiki/Strangford_(Assembly_constituency)" title="Strangford (Assembly constituency)">Strangford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Stewart_(Northern_Ireland_politician)" title="John Stewart (Northern Ireland politician)">John Stewart</a> – <a href="/wiki/East_Antrim_(Assembly_constituency)" title="East Antrim (Assembly constituency)">East Antrim</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Northern_Ireland_Executive_Ministers">Northern Ireland Executive Ministers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ulster_Unionist_Party&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Northern Ireland Executive Ministers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Portfolio </th> <th>Name </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Department_of_Health_(Northern_Ireland)" title="Department of Health (Northern Ireland)">Minister of Health</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mike_Nesbitt" title="Mike Nesbitt">Mike Nesbitt</a> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Party_spokespersons">Party spokespersons</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ulster_Unionist_Party&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Party spokespersons"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The current Party spokespersons include:<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Responsibility </th> <th>Name </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Chief_Whip" title="Chief Whip">Chief Whip</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Andy_Allen_(politician)" title="Andy Allen (politician)">Andy Allen</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland_Executive" title="Northern Ireland Executive">Executive Office</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Stewart_(Northern_Ireland_politician)" title="John Stewart (Northern Ireland politician)">John Stewart</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Department_of_Agriculture,_Environment_and_Rural_Affairs" title="Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs">Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs</a> </td> <td>Robbie Butler </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Department_for_Communities" title="Department for Communities">Communities</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Andy_Allen_(politician)" title="Andy Allen (politician)">Andy Allen</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Department_of_Education_(Northern_Ireland)" title="Department of Education (Northern Ireland)">Education</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Colin_Crawford_(Northern_Ireland_politician)" title="Colin Crawford (Northern Ireland politician)">Colin Crawford</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Department_for_the_Economy" title="Department for the Economy">Economy</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Diana_Armstrong" title="Diana Armstrong">Diana Armstrong</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Department_of_Finance_(Northern_Ireland)" title="Department of Finance (Northern Ireland)">Finance</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Steve_Aiken" title="Steve Aiken">Steve Aiken</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Department_of_Health_(Northern_Ireland)" title="Department of Health (Northern Ireland)">Health</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alan_Chambers_(Northern_Ireland_politician)" title="Alan Chambers (Northern Ireland politician)">Alan Chambers</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Department_for_Infrastructure_(Northern_Ireland)" title="Department for Infrastructure (Northern Ireland)">Infrastructure</a> </td> <td>John Stewart </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Department_of_Justice_(Northern_Ireland)" title="Department of Justice (Northern Ireland)">Justice</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Doug_Beattie" title="Doug Beattie">Doug Beattie</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Party_officers">Party officers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ulster_Unionist_Party&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Party officers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The current party officers are: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Classification </th> <th>Name </th></tr> <tr> <td>Honorary President </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Daphne_Trimble" title="Daphne Trimble">Daphne Trimble</a><sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Leader </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mike_Nesbitt" title="Mike Nesbitt">Mike Nesbitt</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Leader in the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Lords" title="House of Lords">House of Lords</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dennis_Rogan,_Baron_Rogan" title="Dennis Rogan, Baron Rogan">Lord Rogan</a><sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Party Chairman </td> <td>Jill Macauley </td></tr> <tr> <td>Party Vice Chairman </td> <td>Jim Nicholson </td></tr> <tr> <td>Assembly Group Representative </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Robbie_Butler" title="Robbie Butler">Robbie Butler</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Westminster Representative </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Reg_Empey" title="Reg Empey">Lord Empey</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Party Treasurer </td> <td>Ralph Ashenhurst </td></tr> <tr> <td>Chairman of the Councillors' Association </td> <td>David Taylor </td></tr> <tr> <td>Leader's Nominee </td> <td>unknown </td></tr> <tr> <td>Leader's Nominee </td> <td>Diana Armstrong </td></tr> <tr> <td>Members' Nominee </td> <td>Victor Warrington </td></tr> <tr> <td>Members' Nominee </td> <td>Sam Nicholson </td></tr> <tr> <td>Members' Nominee </td> <td>Bethany Ferris </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Electoral_performance">Electoral performance</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ulster_Unionist_Party&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Electoral performance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Westminster">Westminster</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ulster_Unionist_Party&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Westminster"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Northern_Ireland_election_seats_1997-2019.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Northern_Ireland_election_seats_1997-2019.svg/300px-Northern_Ireland_election_seats_1997-2019.svg.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="244" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Northern_Ireland_election_seats_1997-2019.svg/450px-Northern_Ireland_election_seats_1997-2019.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Northern_Ireland_election_seats_1997-2019.svg/600px-Northern_Ireland_election_seats_1997-2019.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1336" data-file-height="1088" /></a><figcaption>Map showing seat results in Northern Ireland Westminster elections 1997–2019</figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%; text-align:center"> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2">Election </th> <th rowspan="2">Leader </th> <th colspan="2">Votes </th> <th colspan="3">Northern Ireland Seats </th> <th rowspan="2">Outcome </th></tr> <tr> <th>No. Votes </th> <th>% </th> <th>No. Seats </th> <th align="center">+/- </th> <th># </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1922_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1922 United Kingdom general election">1922</a> </td> <td rowspan="6"><a href="/wiki/James_Craig,_1st_Viscount_Craigavon" title="James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon">The Viscount Craigavon</a> </td> <td align="right">69,357 </td> <td align="right">57.2% </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">11 / 13</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 85%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 11 </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">Government<sup id="cite_ref-UUP_76-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UUP-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1923_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1923 United Kingdom general election">1923</a> </td> <td align="right">79,453 </td> <td align="right">49.4% </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">11 / 13</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 85%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Opposition </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1924_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1924 United Kingdom general election">1924</a> </td> <td align="right">286,895 </td> <td align="right">83.8% </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">13 / 13</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 100%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 2 </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">Government<sup id="cite_ref-UUP_76-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UUP-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1929_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1929 United Kingdom general election">1929</a> </td> <td align="right">247,291 </td> <td align="right">68.0% </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">11 / 13</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 85%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 2 </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Opposition </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1931_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1931 United Kingdom general election">1931</a> </td> <td align="right">149,566 </td> <td align="right">56.1% </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">11 / 13</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 85%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">National government<sup id="cite_ref-UUP_76-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UUP-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1935_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1935 United Kingdom general election">1935</a> </td> <td align="right">292,840 </td> <td align="right">64.9% </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">11 / 13</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 85%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">National government<sup id="cite_ref-UUP_76-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UUP-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1945_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1945 United Kingdom general election">1945</a> </td> <td rowspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Basil_Brooke,_1st_Viscount_Brookeborough" title="Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough">The Viscount Brookeborough</a> </td> <td align="right">394,373 </td> <td align="right">61.0% </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">9 / 13</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 69%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 2 </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Opposition </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1950_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1950 United Kingdom general election">1950</a> </td> <td align="right">352,334 </td> <td align="right">62.8% </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">10 / 12</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 83%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1 </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Opposition </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1951_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1951 United Kingdom general election">1951</a> </td> <td align="right">274,928 </td> <td align="right">59.4% </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">9 / 12</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 75%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1 </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">Government<sup id="cite_ref-UUP_76-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UUP-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1955_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1955 United Kingdom general election">1955</a> </td> <td align="right">442,647 </td> <td align="right">68.5% </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">10 / 12</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 83%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1 </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">Government<sup id="cite_ref-UUP_76-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UUP-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1959_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1959 United Kingdom general election">1959</a> </td> <td align="right">445,013 </td> <td align="right">77.2% </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">12 / 12</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 100%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 2 </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">Government<sup id="cite_ref-UUP_76-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UUP-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/1964_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1964 United Kingdom general election">1964</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Terence_O%27Neill" title="Terence O'Neill">Terence O'Neill</a> </td> <td align="right">401,897 </td> <td align="right">63.2% </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">12 / 12</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 100%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Opposition </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1966_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1966 United Kingdom general election">1966</a> </td> <td align="right">368,629 </td> <td align="right">61.8% </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">11 / 12</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 92%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1 </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Opposition </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/1970_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1970 United Kingdom general election">1970</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/James_Chichester-Clark" title="James Chichester-Clark">James Chichester-Clark</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" align="right">422,041 </td> <td rowspan="2" align="right">54.3% </td> <td rowspan="2"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">8 / 12</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 67%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td rowspan="2"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 3 </td> <td rowspan="2">1st </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">Government<sup id="cite_ref-UUP_76-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UUP-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <small>(1970 ― 1973)</small> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Opposition <small>(1973 ― 1974)</small> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/February_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="February 1974 United Kingdom general election">Feb 1974</a> </td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Harry_West" title="Harry West">Harry West</a> </td> <td align="right">232,103 </td> <td align="right">32.3% </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">7 / 12</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 58%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1 </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Opposition </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/October_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="October 1974 United Kingdom general election">Oct 1974</a> </td> <td align="right">256,053 </td> <td align="right">36.5% </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">6 / 12</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 50%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1 </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Opposition </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1979_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1979 United Kingdom general election">1979</a> </td> <td align="right">254,578 </td> <td align="right">36.6% </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">5 / 12</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 42%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1 </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Opposition </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">1983</a> </td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/James_Molyneaux,_Baron_Molyneaux_of_Killead" title="James Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead">James Molyneaux</a> </td> <td align="right">259,952 </td> <td align="right">34.0% </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">11 / 17</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 65%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 6 </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Opposition </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/1987_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1987 United Kingdom general election">1987</a> </td> <td align="right">276,230 </td> <td align="right">37.8% </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">9 / 17</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 53%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 2 </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Opposition </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1992_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1992 United Kingdom general election">1992</a> </td> <td align="right">271,049 </td> <td align="right">34.5% </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">9 / 17</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 53%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Opposition </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1997 United Kingdom general election">1997</a> </td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/David_Trimble" title="David Trimble">David Trimble</a> </td> <td align="right">258,439 </td> <td align="right">32.7% </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">10 / 18</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 56%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1 </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Opposition </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2001_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2001 United Kingdom general election">2001</a> </td> <td align="right">216,839 </td> <td align="right">26.7% </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">6 / 18</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 33%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 4 </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Opposition </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2005_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2005 United Kingdom general election">2005</a> </td> <td align="right">127,414 </td> <td align="right">17.7% </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">1 / 18</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 6%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 5 </td> <td>3rd </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Opposition </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2010_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2010 United Kingdom general election">2010</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Reg_Empey" title="Reg Empey">Sir Reg Empey</a> </td> <td align="right">102,361 </td> <td align="right">15.2% </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">0 / 18</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 0%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1 </td> <td>N/A </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">Extraparliamentary </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2015_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2015 United Kingdom general election">2015</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mike_Nesbitt" title="Mike Nesbitt">Mike Nesbitt</a> </td> <td align="right">114,935 </td> <td align="right">16.0% </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">2 / 18</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 11%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 2 </td> <td>4th </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Opposition </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2017_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2017 United Kingdom general election">2017</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Robin_Swann" title="Robin Swann">Robin Swann</a> </td> <td align="right">83,280 </td> <td align="right">10.3% </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">0 / 18</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 0%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 2 </td> <td>N/A </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">Extraparliamentary </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2019 United Kingdom general election">2019</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Steve_Aiken" title="Steve Aiken">Steve Aiken</a> </td> <td align="right">93,123 </td> <td align="right">11.7% </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">0 / 18</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 0%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td> <td>N/A </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">Extraparliamentary </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2024 United Kingdom general election">2024</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Doug_Beattie" title="Doug Beattie">Doug Beattie</a> </td> <td align="right">94,779 </td> <td align="right">12.2% </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">1 / 18</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 6%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1 </td> <td>4th </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Opposition </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-UUP-76"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-UUP_76-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-UUP_76-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-UUP_76-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-UUP_76-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-UUP_76-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-UUP_76-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-UUP_76-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-UUP_76-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Ulster Unionist Party MPs took the whip of the <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative Party</a> until 1973</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Stormont">Stormont</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ulster_Unionist_Party&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Stormont"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%; text-align:center"> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2">Election </th> <th rowspan="2">Leader </th> <th rowspan="2">Body </th> <th colspan="2">Votes </th> <th colspan="2">Seats </th> <th rowspan="2">Outcome </th></tr> <tr> <th>First preference </th> <th>% </th> <th>No. Seats </th> <th># </th></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/1921_Northern_Ireland_general_election" title="1921 Northern Ireland general election">1921</a> </td> <td rowspan="5"><a href="/wiki/James_Craig,_1st_Viscount_Craigavon" title="James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon">The Viscount Craigavon</a> </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="09 !"><a href="/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_1st_House_of_Commons_of_Northern_Ireland" title="List of members of the 1st House of Commons of Northern Ireland">1st Parliament</a></span> </td> <td align="center">343,347 </td> <td align="center">66.9% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">40 / 52</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 77%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">UUP majority </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/1925_Northern_Ireland_general_election" title="1925 Northern Ireland general election">1925</a> </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="09 !"><a href="/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_2nd_House_of_Commons_of_Northern_Ireland" title="List of members of the 2nd House of Commons of Northern Ireland">2nd Parliament</a></span> </td> <td align="center">211,662 </td> <td align="center">55.0% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">32 / 52</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 62%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">UUP majority </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/1929_Northern_Ireland_general_election" title="1929 Northern Ireland general election">1929</a> </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="09 !"><a href="/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_3rd_House_of_Commons_of_Northern_Ireland" title="List of members of the 3rd House of Commons of Northern Ireland">3rd Parliament</a></span> </td> <td align="center">148,579 </td> <td align="center">50.8% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">37 / 52</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 71%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">UUP majority </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/1933_Northern_Ireland_general_election" title="1933 Northern Ireland general election">1933</a> </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="09 !"><a href="/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_4th_House_of_Commons_of_Northern_Ireland" title="List of members of the 4th House of Commons of Northern Ireland">4th Parliament</a></span> </td> <td align="center">73,791 </td> <td align="center">43.5% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">36 / 52</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 69%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">UUP majority </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/1938_Northern_Ireland_general_election" title="1938 Northern Ireland general election">1938</a> </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="09 !"><a href="/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_5th_House_of_Commons_of_Northern_Ireland" title="List of members of the 5th House of Commons of Northern Ireland">5th Parliament</a></span> </td> <td align="center">187,684 </td> <td align="center">56.8% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">39 / 52</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 75%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">UUP majority </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/1945_Northern_Ireland_general_election" title="1945 Northern Ireland general election">1945</a> </td> <td rowspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Basil_Brooke,_1st_Viscount_Brookeborough" title="Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough">The Viscount Brookeborough</a> </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="09 !"><a href="/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_6th_House_of_Commons_of_Northern_Ireland" title="List of members of the 6th House of Commons of Northern Ireland">6th Parliament</a></span> </td> <td align="center">180,342 </td> <td align="center">50.4% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">33 / 52</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 63%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">UUP majority </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/1949_Northern_Ireland_general_election" title="1949 Northern Ireland general election">1949</a> </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="09 !"><a href="/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_7th_House_of_Commons_of_Northern_Ireland" title="List of members of the 7th House of Commons of Northern Ireland">7th Parliament</a></span> </td> <td align="center">237,411 </td> <td align="center">62.7% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">37 / 52</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 71%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">UUP majority </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/1953_Northern_Ireland_general_election" title="1953 Northern Ireland general election">1953</a> </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="09 !"><a href="/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_8th_House_of_Commons_of_Northern_Ireland" title="List of members of the 8th House of Commons of Northern Ireland">8th Parliament</a></span> </td> <td align="center">125,379 </td> <td align="center">48.6% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">38 / 52</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 73%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">UUP majority </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/1958_Northern_Ireland_general_election" title="1958 Northern Ireland general election">1958</a> </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="09 !"><a href="/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_9th_House_of_Commons_of_Northern_Ireland" title="List of members of the 9th House of Commons of Northern Ireland">9th Parliament</a></span> </td> <td align="center">106,177 </td> <td align="center">44.0% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">37 / 52</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 71%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">UUP majority </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/1962_Northern_Ireland_general_election" title="1962 Northern Ireland general election">1962</a> </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="09 !"><a href="/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_10th_House_of_Commons_of_Northern_Ireland" title="List of members of the 10th House of Commons of Northern Ireland">10th Parliament</a></span> </td> <td align="center">147,629 </td> <td align="center">48.8% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">34 / 52</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 65%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">UUP majority </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/1965_Northern_Ireland_general_election" title="1965 Northern Ireland general election">1965</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Terence_O%27Neill" title="Terence O'Neill">Terence O'Neill</a> </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="09 !"><a href="/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_11th_House_of_Commons_of_Northern_Ireland" title="List of members of the 11th House of Commons of Northern Ireland">11th Parliament</a></span> </td> <td align="center">191,896 </td> <td align="center">59.1% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">36 / 52</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 69%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">UUP majority </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/1969_Northern_Ireland_general_election" title="1969 Northern Ireland general election">1969</a> </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="09 !"><a href="/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_12th_House_of_Commons_of_Northern_Ireland" title="List of members of the 12th House of Commons of Northern Ireland">12th Parliament</a></span> </td> <td align="center">269,501 </td> <td align="center">48.2% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">36 / 52</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 69%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">UUP majority </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/1973_Northern_Ireland_Assembly_election" title="1973 Northern Ireland Assembly election">1973</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Brian_Faulkner" title="Brian Faulkner">Brian Faulkner</a> </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="09 !"><a href="/wiki/Members_of_the_1973_Northern_Ireland_Assembly" class="mw-redirect" title="Members of the 1973 Northern Ireland Assembly">1973 Assembly</a></span> </td> <td align="center">258,790 </td> <td align="center">35.8% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">31 / 78</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 40%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">Coalition </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland_Constitutional_Convention#Election_results" title="Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention">1975</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Harry_West" title="Harry West">Harry West</a> </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Members_of_the_Northern_Ireland_Constitutional_Convention" class="mw-redirect" title="Members of the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention">Constitutional Convention</a> </td> <td align="center">167,214 </td> <td align="center">25.4% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">19 / 78</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 24%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background:#FFB; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-partial">Largest party </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/1982_Northern_Ireland_Assembly_election" title="1982 Northern Ireland Assembly election">1982</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/James_Molyneaux,_Baron_Molyneaux_of_Killead" title="James Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead">James Molyneaux</a> </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Members_of_the_1982_Northern_Ireland_Assembly" class="mw-redirect" title="Members of the 1982 Northern Ireland Assembly">1982 Assembly</a> </td> <td align="center">188,277 </td> <td align="center">29.7% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">26 / 78</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 33%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background:#FFB; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-partial">Largest party </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland_Forum#Results" title="Northern Ireland Forum">1996</a> </td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/David_Trimble" title="David Trimble">David Trimble</a> </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Members_of_the_Northern_Ireland_Forum" class="mw-redirect" title="Members of the Northern Ireland Forum">Forum</a> </td> <td align="center">181,829 </td> <td align="center">24.2% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">30 / 110</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 27%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background:#FFB; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-partial">Largest party </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/1998_Northern_Ireland_Assembly_election" title="1998 Northern Ireland Assembly election">1998</a> </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/1st_Northern_Ireland_Assembly" title="1st Northern Ireland Assembly">1st Assembly</a> </td> <td align="center">172,225 </td> <td align="center">21.3% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">28 / 108</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 26%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td>1st </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">Coalition </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/2003_Northern_Ireland_Assembly_election" title="2003 Northern Ireland Assembly election">2003</a> </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/2nd_Northern_Ireland_Assembly" title="2nd Northern Ireland Assembly">2nd Assembly</a> </td> <td align="center">156,931 </td> <td align="center">22.7% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">27 / 108</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 25%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td>2nd </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">Direct rule </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/2007_Northern_Ireland_Assembly_election" title="2007 Northern Ireland Assembly election">2007</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Reg_Empey" title="Reg Empey">Reg Empey</a> </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/3rd_Northern_Ireland_Assembly" title="3rd Northern Ireland Assembly">3rd Assembly</a> </td> <td align="center">103,145 </td> <td align="center">14.9% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">18 / 108</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 17%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td>3rd </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">Coalition </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/2011_Northern_Ireland_Assembly_election" title="2011 Northern Ireland Assembly election">2011</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tom_Elliott_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tom Elliott (politician)">Tom Elliott</a> </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/4th_Northern_Ireland_Assembly" title="4th Northern Ireland Assembly">4th Assembly</a> </td> <td align="center">87,531 </td> <td align="center">13.2% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">16 / 108</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 15%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td>3rd </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">Coalition </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/2016_Northern_Ireland_Assembly_election" title="2016 Northern Ireland Assembly election">2016</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Mike_Nesbitt" title="Mike Nesbitt">Mike Nesbitt</a> </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/5th_Northern_Ireland_Assembly" title="5th Northern Ireland Assembly">5th Assembly</a> </td> <td align="center">87,302 </td> <td align="center">12.6% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">16 / 108</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 15%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td>3rd </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Opposition </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/2017_Northern_Ireland_Assembly_election" title="2017 Northern Ireland Assembly election">2017</a> </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/6th_Northern_Ireland_Assembly" title="6th Northern Ireland Assembly">6th Assembly</a> </td> <td align="center">103,314 </td> <td align="center">12.9% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">10 / 90</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 11%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td>4th </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">Coalition </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/2022_Northern_Ireland_Assembly_election" title="2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election">2022</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Doug_Beattie" title="Doug Beattie">Doug Beattie</a> </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/7th_Northern_Ireland_Assembly" title="7th Northern Ireland Assembly">7th Assembly</a> </td> <td align="center">96,390 </td> <td align="center">11.2% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">9 / 90</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 10%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td>4th </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">Coalition </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Local_government">Local government</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ulster_Unionist_Party&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Local government"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%"> <tbody><tr> <th>Election </th> <th>First-preference vote </th> <th>Vote % </th> <th>Seats </th></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/1973_Northern_Ireland_local_elections" title="1973 Northern Ireland local elections">1973</a> </td> <td align="center">255,187 </td> <td align="center">17.0% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">194 / 517</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 38%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/1977_Northern_Ireland_local_elections" title="1977 Northern Ireland local elections">1977</a> </td> <td align="center">166,971 </td> <td align="center">30.0% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">176 / 526</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 33%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/1981_Northern_Ireland_local_elections" title="1981 Northern Ireland local elections">1981</a> </td> <td align="center">175,965 </td> <td align="center">26.4% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">151 / 526</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 29%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/1985_Northern_Ireland_local_elections" title="1985 Northern Ireland local elections">1985</a> </td> <td align="center">188,497 </td> <td align="center">29.5% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">189 / 565</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 33%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/1989_Northern_Ireland_local_elections" title="1989 Northern Ireland local elections">1989</a> </td> <td align="center">193,064 </td> <td align="center">31.3% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">194 / 565</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 34%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/1993_Northern_Ireland_local_elections" title="1993 Northern Ireland local elections">1993</a> </td> <td align="center">184,082 </td> <td align="center">29.0% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">197 / 582</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 34%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/1997_Northern_Ireland_local_elections" title="1997 Northern Ireland local elections">1997</a> </td> <td align="center">175,036 </td> <td align="center">28.0% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">185 / 575</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 32%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/2001_Northern_Ireland_local_elections" title="2001 Northern Ireland local elections">2001</a> </td> <td align="center">181,336 </td> <td align="center">23.0% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">154 / 582</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 26%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/2005_Northern_Ireland_local_elections" title="2005 Northern Ireland local elections">2005</a> </td> <td align="center">126,317 </td> <td align="center">18.0% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">115 / 582</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 20%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/2011_Northern_Ireland_local_elections" title="2011 Northern Ireland local elections">2011</a> </td> <td align="center">100,643 </td> <td align="center">15.2% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">99 / 583</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 17%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/2014_Northern_Ireland_local_elections" title="2014 Northern Ireland local elections">2014</a> </td> <td align="center">101,385 </td> <td align="center">16.1% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">88 / 462</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 19%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/2019_Northern_Ireland_local_elections" title="2019 Northern Ireland local elections">2019</a> </td> <td align="center">95,320 </td> <td align="center">14.1% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">75 / 462</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 16%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/2023_Northern_Ireland_local_elections" title="2023 Northern Ireland local elections">2023</a> </td> <td align="center">81,282 </td> <td align="center">10.9% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">54 / 462</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 12%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="European_Parliament">European Parliament</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ulster_Unionist_Party&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: European Parliament"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%"> <tbody><tr> <th>Election </th> <th>First-preference vote </th> <th>Vote % </th> <th>Seats </th></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/1979_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom#Northern_Ireland" title="1979 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom">1979</a> </td> <td align="center">125,169 </td> <td align="center">21.9% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">1 / 3</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 33%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/1984_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom#Northern_Ireland" title="1984 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom">1984</a> </td> <td align="center">147,169 </td> <td align="center">21.5% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">1 / 3</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 33%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/1989_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom#Northern_Ireland" title="1989 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom">1989</a> </td> <td align="center">118,785 </td> <td align="center">22.0% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">1 / 3</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 33%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/1994_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom#Northern_Ireland" title="1994 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom">1994</a> </td> <td align="center">133,459 </td> <td align="center">22.8% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">1 / 3</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 33%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/1999_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom#Northern_Ireland" title="1999 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom">1999</a> </td> <td align="center">119,507 </td> <td align="center">17.6% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">1 / 3</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 33%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/2004_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom#Northern_Ireland" title="2004 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom">2004</a> </td> <td align="center">91,164 </td> <td align="center">16.6% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">1 / 3</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 33%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/2009_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom#Northern_Ireland" title="2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom">2009</a> </td> <td align="center">82,892 </td> <td align="center">17.0% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">1 / 3</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 33%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland_(European_Parliament_constituency)#2014" title="Northern Ireland (European Parliament constituency)">2014</a> </td> <td align="center">83,438 </td> <td align="center">13.3% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">1 / 3</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #48A5EE; color:inherit; width: 33%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland_(European_Parliament_constituency)#2019" title="Northern Ireland (European Parliament constituency)">2019</a> </td> <td align="center">53,052 </td> <td align="center">9.3% </td> <td align="left"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">0 / 3</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div 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Whip</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ulster_Unionist_Party_Presidents_and_General_Secretaries" title="Ulster Unionist Party Presidents and General Secretaries">Ulster Unionist Party Presidents and General Secretaries</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ulster_Unionist_Party&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output 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Liverpool University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781846310645" title="Special:BookSources/9781846310645"><bdi>9781846310645</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Tragedy+of+Errors&rft.pub=Liverpool+University+Press&rft.date=2007&rft.isbn=9781846310645&rft.aulast=Bloomfield&rft.aufirst=Ken&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DnuTC9ZiZZf0C%26q%3Dbrian%2Bmaginess%2Bcatholic%2Bmembership%2Buup%26pg%3DPA158&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUlster+Unionist+Party" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ira/conflict/civil.html">"Archived copy"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/PBS" title="PBS">PBS</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170903122308/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ira/conflict/civil.html">Archived</a> from the original on 3 September 2017<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">17 September</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=PBS&rft.atitle=Archived+copy&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pbs.org%2Fwgbh%2Fpages%2Ffrontline%2Fshows%2Fira%2Fconflict%2Fcivil.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUlster+Unionist+Party" class="Z3988"></span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_web" title="Template:Cite web">cite web</a>}}</code>: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_archived_copy_as_title" title="Category:CS1 maint: archived copy as title">link</a>)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCurtis2014" class="citation book cs1">Curtis, Jennifer (28 July 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=3eDHAwAAQBAJ&q=local+elections+northern+ireland+ratepayers+mostly+protestant&pg=PA39"><i>Human Rights as War by Other Means</i></a>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">17 April</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=belfasttelegraph&rft.atitle=Tories+form+Northern+Ireland+party&rft.issn=0307-1235&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.belfasttelegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fnorthern-ireland%2Ftories-form-northern-ireland-party-28709950.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUlster+Unionist+Party" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Dan Keohane (2000), <i>Security in British Politics 1945–99</i>, p. 183.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Stuart Bell and Anthony Seldon, <i>The Heath Government 1970–74: A Reappraisal</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4244082.stm">"What is the UVF?"</a>. <i>BBC News</i>. 14 September 2005. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061222150309/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4244082.stm">Archived</a> from the original on 22 December 2006<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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London. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070119230756/http://politics.guardian.co.uk/politicsobituaries/story/0,,1985671,00.html">Archived</a> from the original on 19 January 2007<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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London. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/ulster/article301681.ece">the original</a> on 15 December 2005<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/4772777.stm">the original</a> on 8 March 2008<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">9 April</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=BBC+News&rft.atitle=MP+%27distressed%27+over+Ervine+move&rft.date=2006-05-17&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2F2%2Fhi%2Fuk_news%2Fnorthern_ireland%2F4990810.stm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUlster+Unionist+Party" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/5335004.stm">"UUP-PUP link 'against the rules'<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. <i>BBC News</i>. 11 September 2006<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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(identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-85640-007-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-85640-007-6">0-85640-007-6</a></li> <li>Graham Walker, <i>A History of the Ulster Unionist Party: Protest, Pragmatism and Pessimism</i> (Manchester University Press: Manchester Studies in Modern History, 2004) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0719061097" title="Special:BookSources/978-0719061097">978-0719061097</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ulster_Unionist_Party&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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Andrews">Andrews</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basil_Brooke,_1st_Viscount_Brookeborough" title="Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough">Brookeborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terence_O%27Neill" title="Terence O'Neill">O'Neill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Chichester-Clark" title="James Chichester-Clark">Chichester-Clark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brian_Faulkner" title="Brian Faulkner">Faulkner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_West" title="Harry West">West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Molyneaux,_Baron_Molyneaux_of_Killead" title="James Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead">Molyneaux</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Trimble" title="David Trimble">Trimble</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reg_Empey" title="Reg Empey">Empey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Elliott_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tom Elliott (politician)">Elliott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Nesbitt" title="Mike Nesbitt">Nesbitt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robin_Swann" title="Robin Swann">Swann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Aiken" title="Steve Aiken">Aiken</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doug_Beattie" title="Doug Beattie">Beattie</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#48A5EE;color:white;">Deputy Leaders</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harold_McCusker" title="Harold McCusker">McCusker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Taylor,_Baron_Kilclooney" title="John Taylor, Baron Kilclooney">Taylor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reg_Empey" title="Reg Empey">Empey</a> & <a href="/wiki/Roy_Beggs" title="Roy Beggs">Beggs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danny_Kennedy_(politician)" title="Danny Kennedy (politician)">Kennedy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_McCallister" title="John McCallister">McCallister</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robbie_Butler" title="Robbie Butler">Butler</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#48A5EE;color:white;">Chairman</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dennis_Rogan,_Baron_Rogan" title="Dennis Rogan, Baron Rogan">Rogan</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Cooper_(UUP_Chairman)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="James Cooper (UUP Chairman) (page does not exist)">Cooper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Campbell_(Northern_Ireland_politician,_born_1965)" title="David Campbell (Northern Ireland politician, born 1965)">Campbell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reg_Empey" title="Reg Empey">Empey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danny_Kennedy_(politician)" title="Danny Kennedy (politician)">Kennedy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#48A5EE;color:white;"><a href="/wiki/Ulster_Unionist_Party_Presidents_and_General_Secretaries" title="Ulster Unionist Party Presidents and General Secretaries">President</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Hamilton,_2nd_Duke_of_Abercorn" title="James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn">Hamilton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Craig,_1st_Viscount_Craigavon" title="James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon">Craig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._M._Andrews" title="J. M. Andrews">J. M. Andrews</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Dixon,_1st_Baron_Glentoran" title="Herbert Dixon, 1st Baron Glentoran">Dixon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basil_Brooke,_1st_Viscount_Brookeborough" title="Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough">Brooke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clarence_Graham" title="Clarence Graham">Graham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Andrews" title="Jack Andrews">J. L. O. Andrews</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Glencairn_Cunningham" title="James Glencairn Cunningham">J. G. Cunningham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_George_Clark,_3rd_Baronet" title="Sir George Clark, 3rd Baronet">Clark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Josias_Cunningham" title="Josias Cunningham">J. 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McCusker</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#48A5EE;color:white;">Leadership elections</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1969_Ulster_Unionist_Party_leadership_election" title="1969 Ulster Unionist Party leadership election">1969</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1971_Ulster_Unionist_Party_leadership_election" title="1971 Ulster Unionist Party leadership election">1971</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1974_Ulster_Unionist_Party_leadership_election" title="1974 Ulster Unionist Party leadership election">1974</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1979_Ulster_Unionist_Party_leadership_election" title="1979 Ulster Unionist Party leadership election">1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_1995_Ulster_Unionist_Party_leadership_election" title="March 1995 Ulster Unionist Party leadership election">March 1995</a></li> <li><a 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and Labour Party">Social Democratic and Labour Party</a> (39)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> (19)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Traditional_Unionist_Voice" title="Traditional Unionist Voice">Traditional Unionist Voice</a> (9)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_Northern_Ireland" title="Green Party Northern Ireland">Green Party Northern Ireland</a> (5)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/People_Before_Profit" title="People Before Profit">People Before Profit</a> (2)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Progressive_Unionist_Party" title="Progressive Unionist Party">Progressive Unionist Party</a> (1)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><sup>†</sup>Sinn Féin have elected members and offices at Westminster, but as <a href="/wiki/Abstentionism" title="Abstentionism">abstentionists</a> do not take their seats.</div></td></tr><tr><td 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(UK)">Conservative</a> (121)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> (72)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a> (9)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sinn_F%C3%A9in" title="Sinn Féin">Sinn Féin</a><sup>†</sup> (7)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Unionist_Party" title="Democratic Unionist Party">DUP</a> (5)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reform_UK" title="Reform UK">Reform</a> (5)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_England_and_Wales" title="Green Party of England and Wales">Green (E&W)</a> (4)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plaid_Cymru" title="Plaid Cymru">Plaid Cymru</a> (4)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_and_Labour_Party" title="Social Democratic and Labour Party">SDLP</a> (2)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alliance_Party_of_Northern_Ireland" title="Alliance Party of Northern Ireland">Alliance</a> (1)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Traditional_Unionist_Voice" title="Traditional Unionist Voice">TUV</a> (1)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">UUP</a> (1)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independents</a> (13)<sup>‡</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_House_of_Commons_(United_Kingdom)" title="Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)">Speaker</a> (1)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/House_of_Lords" title="House of Lords">House of Lords</a> (836)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> (279)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crossbencher" title="Crossbencher">Crossbenchers</a> (184)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> (214)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> (79)</li> 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