List of Ulster Unionist Party MPs

This is a list of Ulster Unionist Party MPs. It includes all Members of Parliament elected to the British House of Commons representing the Ulster Unionist Party or its forerunner, the Irish Unionist Party, since 1918. Members of the European Parliament, the Northern Ireland House of Commons or the Northern Ireland Assembly are not listed.

MPs elected since 1918

Member	Constituency	Years served
W. E. D. Allen	Belfast West	1929–1931 ¹
William Allen	Armagh	1922–1948
C. W. Armstrong	Armagh	1954–1959
Henry Bruce Armstrong	Mid Armagh	1921–1922
Hugh T. Barrie	North Londonderry	1919–1922
Charles Beattie	Mid Ulster	1955–1956
Roy Beggs	East Antrim	1983–2005
Robert Bradford	Belfast South	1977–1981 ²
Alexander Browne	Belfast West	1931–1943
David Burnside	South Antrim	2001–2005
David Campbell	Belfast South	1952–1963
John Carson	Belfast North	February 1974 – 1979
Robin Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh	Down	1931–1945
Robert Chichester	South Londonderry	1921–1922
Robin Chichester-Clark	Londonderry	1955 – February 1974
Henry Maitland Clark	North Antrim	1959–1970
Thomas Loftus Cole	Belfast East	1945–1950
William Craig	Belfast East	1977–1979 ²
Knox Cunningham	South Antrim	1955–1970
George Currie	North Down	1955–1970
Herbert Dixon	Belfast East	1922–1940
Jeffrey Donaldson	Lagan Valley	1997–2003 ³
Tom Elliott	Fermanagh and South Tyrone	2015–2017
Charles Falls	Fermanagh and Tyrone	1924–1929
Patricia Ford	North Down	1953–1955
George Forrest	Mid Ulster	1956–1969 ⁴
Clifford Forsythe	South Antrim	1983–2000
Conolly Gage	Belfast South	1945–1952
Robert Grosvenor	Fermanagh and South Tyrone	1955–1964
James Hamilton	Fermanagh and South Tyrone	1964–1970
Richard Harden	Armagh	1948–1954
H. P. Harland	Belfast East	1940–1945
Hugh Hayes	West Down	1922–1922
Sylvia Hermon	North Down	2001–2010 ⁹
H. Montgomery Hyde	Belfast North	1950–1959
William Morgan Jellett	Dublin University	1919–1922
James Kilfedder	Belfast West	1964–1970 ⁵
James Kilfedder	North Down	1970–1977 ⁵
Danny Kinahan	South Antrim	2015–2017
James Little	Down	1939–1945 ⁶
R. J. Lynn	Belfast West	1922–1929
Thomas Edward McConnell	Belfast Duncairn; Belfast North	1921–1922, 1922–1929
Harold McCusker	Armagh; Upper Bann	1974–1983, 1983–1990
Alan McKibbin	Belfast East	1950–1959
Patricia McLaughlin	Belfast West	1955–1964
J. G. MacManaway	Belfast West	1950
Stanley McMaster	Belfast East	1959–1974
Malcolm Macnaghten	Londonderry North; Londonderry	1922, 1922–1929
John Maginnis	Armagh	1959–1974
Ken Maginnis	Fermanagh and South Tyrone	1983–2001
Stratton Mills	Belfast North	1959–1972 ⁷
Thomas Moles	Belfast South	1922–1929
James Molyneaux	South Antrim; Lagan Valley	1970–1983, 1983–1997
Charles Heron Mullan	Down	1946–1950
William Frederick Neill	Belfast North	1945–1950
Jim Nicholson	Newry and Armagh	1983–1986
Hugh O'Neill	Mid Antrim; Antrim; North Antrim	1915–1922, 1922–1950, 1950–1953
Phelim O'Neill	North Antrim	1953–1959
Lawrence Orr	South Down	1950–1974
Sir William Hacket Pain	South Londonderry	1922
Rafton Pounder	Belfast South	1953–1974
Enoch Powell	South Down	1974–1987 ⁸
James Alexander Pringle	Fermanagh and Tyrone	1922–1929
David Douglas Reid	Down	1922–1939
Ronald Ross	Londonderry	1929–1951
William Ross	Londonderry; East Londonderry	1974–1983, 1983–2001
Douglas Lloyd Savory	Queen's University, Belfast; South Antrim	1940–1950, 1950–1955
Robert Sharman-Crawford	Mid Down	1921–1922
John Morrow Simms	North Down; Down	1922, 1922–1931
Thomas Sinclair	Queen's University, Belfast	1918–1940
Walter Smiles	Down; North Down	1945–1950, 1950–1953
Martin Smyth	Belfast South	1982–2005
Thomas Somerset	Belfast North	1929–1945
William Stewart	Belfast South	1929–1945
John Taylor	Strangford	1983–2001
Thomas Teevan	Belfast West	1950–1951
William Thompson	West Tyrone	1997–2001
David Trimble	Upper Bann	1990–2005
Cecil Walker	Belfast North	1983–2001
Thomas Browne Wallace	West Down	1921–1922
William Wellwood	Londonderry	1951–1955
Harry West	Fermanagh and South Tyrone	February–October 1974
Henry Wilson	North Down	February–July 1922

¹ Defected to the New Party.

² Elected in 1974 for the Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party.

³ Defected to the Democratic Unionist Party.

⁴ Elected in 1956 as an Independent Unionist.

⁵ Left the party to become an Independent Unionist before forming the Ulster Popular Unionist Party.

⁶ Resigned from the party at the 1945 general election in protest at being subject to a reselection due to the retirement of Viscount Castlereagh, the other Ulster Unionist MP for the two member Down constituency and held his seat as an Independent Ulster Unionist.

⁷ Refused to follow the other Ulster Unionists in resigning the Conservative whip; later joined the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland.

⁸ Previously Conservative MP for Wolverhampton South West 1950–1974.

⁹ Left the party on 25 March 2010 to become an Independent Unionist.

MPs elected in 1918

Graphical representation

Constituency	1922	1923	1924	29	1929	31	1931	1935	38	39	40	43	1945	46	48
Antrim (Two members)	colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Craig	colspan="7" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|McConnell	bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Campbell	colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Haughton
Antrim (Two members)	colspan="15" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|O'Neill
Armagh	colspan="14" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Allen	bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Harden
Belfast East	colspan="10" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Dixon	colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Harland	colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Cole
Belfast North	colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|McConnell	colspan="8" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Somerset	colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Neill
Londonderry	colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Macnaghten	colspan="12" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Ross
Queen's University of Belfast	bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Whitla	colspan="9" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Sinclair	colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Savory
Down (Two members)	colspan="6" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Simms	colspan="6" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Vane-Tempest-Stewart	colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Smiles
Down (Two members)	colspan="9" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Reid	colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Little		colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Mullan
Belfast South	colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Moles	colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Stewart					colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Gage
Belfast West	colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Lynn	bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Allen		colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Browne
Fermanagh and Tyrone (Two members)			colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Pringle
Fermanagh and Tyrone (Two members)			colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Falls
No. of UUP MPs	11	11	13	13	11	10	11	11	10	10	10	9	9	10	10

Constituency	1950	51	1951	52	53	54	1955	57	59	1959	63	1964	1966	69	1970	72	Feb 74	Oct 74	77	78	1979	81
Antrim South	colspan="6" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Savory	colspan="8" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Cunningham	colspan="8" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Molyneaux
Armagh	colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Harden	colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Armstrong	colspan="7" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Maginnis	colspan="6" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|McCusker
Down South	colspan="17" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Orr	colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Powell
Londonderry	bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Ross	colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Wellwood	colspan="10" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Chichester-Clark	colspan="6" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Ross
Down North	colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Smiles	colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Ford	colspan="8" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Currie	colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Kilfedder
Belfast East	colspan="8" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|McKibbin	colspan="8" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|McMaster				bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Craig
Belfast South	colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Gage	colspan="7" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Campbell	colspan="6" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Pounder			colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Bradford	bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Smyth
Belfast North	colspan="9" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Hyde	colspan="6" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Mills		colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Carson
Antrim North	colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|H. O'Neill	colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|P. O'Neill	colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Clark
Belfast West	colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Teevan					colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|McLaughlin	bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Kilfedder
Fermanagh and South Tyrone							colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Grosvenor	colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Hamilton			bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|West
Mid Ulster								colspan="6" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Forrest
No. of UUP MPs	10	10	9	9	9	9	11	12	12	12	12	12	11	10	8	7	7	6	6	7	5	5

Constituency	1983	86	1987	90	1992	1997	00	2001	04	2005	10	2010	2015	2017
Antrim East	colspan="9" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Beggs
Upper Bann	colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|McCusker	colspan="6" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Trimble
Belfast South	colspan="9" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Smyth
Lagan Valley	colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Molyneaux	colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Donaldson
Belfast North	colspan="7" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Walker
Fermanagh and South Tyrone	colspan="7" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Maginnis						bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Elliott
Londonderry East	colspan="7" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Ross
Strangford	colspan="7" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Taylor
Antrim South	colspan="6" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Forsythe		colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Burnside				bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Kinahan
Down South	colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Powell
Newry and Armagh	bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Nicholson
West Tyrone						colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Thompson
Down North								colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|Hermon
Constituency	11	10	9	9	9	10	9	6	5	1	0	0	2	0

v t e Ulster Unionist Party
Leaders	Saunderson Long Carson Craigavon Andrews Brookeborough O'Neill Chichester-Clark Faulkner West Molyneaux Trimble Empey Elliott Nesbitt Swann Aiken Beattie
Deputy Leaders	McCusker Taylor Empey & Beggs Kennedy McCallister Butler
Chairman	Rogan Cooper Campbell Empey Kennedy
President	Hamilton Craig J. M. Andrews Dixon Brooke Graham J. L. O. Andrews J. G. Cunningham Clark J. Cunningham Smyth Rogan White Steele (honorary)
General Secretary	Gibson Bates Hungerford Douglas Bailie Hutton Millar Wilson Boyd Patterson Rea Corry Wilson C. McCusker
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History and related organisations	Progenitor: Irish Unionist Alliance Allies: Labour Unionists/Liberal Unionist/Conservatives Offshoots: Vanguard (1973–78)/NI21 (2013-16) Electoral alliance: UCUNF (2009)
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