List of Ulster Unionist Party MPs

This is a list of Ulster Unionist Party MPs. It includes all

Northern Ireland House of Commons or the Northern Ireland Assembly

MPs elected since 1918

Member	Constituency	Years served
W. E. D. Allen	Belfast West	1929–1931 ¹
William James Allen	Armagh North Armagh	1917–1922 1922–1948
Hugh Alfred Anderson	Londonderry North	1918–1919
Edward Mervyn Archdale	Fermanagh North	1916-1922
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
Thomas Watters Brown	North Down	1918-1922
Alexander Browne	Belfast West	1931–1943
David Burnside	South Antrim	2001–2005
David Campbell	Belfast South	1952–1963
Edward Carson	Dublin University Belfast Duncairn	1892-1918 1918-1921
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 Coote	Tyrone South	1916-1922
James Craig	East Down Down Mid	1906–1918 1918-1921
William Craig	Belfast East	1977–1979 ²
Knox Cunningham	South Antrim	1955–1970
George Currie	North Down	1955–1970
Charles Curtis Craig	Antrim South	1903 – 1922
Herbert Dixon	Belfast Pottinger Belfast East	1918-1922 1922–1940
Maurice Dockrell	Dublin Rathmines	1918-1922
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
Denis Stanislaus Henry	Londonderry South	1916-1921
Sylvia Hermon	North Down	2001–2010 ⁹
H. Montgomery Hyde	Belfast North	1950–1959
William Morgan Jellett	Dublin University	1919–1922
Peter Kerr Kerr-Smiley	Antrim North	Jan 1910–1922
James Kilfedder	Belfast West	1964–1970 ⁵
James Kilfedder	North Down	1970–1977 ⁵
Danny Kinahan	South Antrim	2015–2017
William Arthur Lindsay	Belfast South Belfast Cromac	1917 – 1918 1918 – 1922
James Little	Down	1939–1945 ⁶
James Lonsdale	Mid Armagh	1918 – 1921
R. J. Lynn	Belfast Woodvale Belfast West	1918–1922 1922–1929
Robert McCalmont	Antrim East	1913 – 1919
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 Ormeau Belfast South	1918-1922 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 1950–1952
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 East Down	1918–1922 1922–1939
Ronald Ross	Londonderry	1929–1951
William Ross	Londonderry; East Londonderry	1974–1983, 1983–2001
Arthur Warren Samuels	Dublin University	1917–1919
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
William Whitla	Queen's University of Belfast	1918–1923
Daniel Martin Wilson	West Down	1918-1921
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.

Graphical representation

Constituency	1922	1923	1924	29	1929	31	1931	1935	38	39	40	43	1945	46	48
Antrim (Two members)	Craig				McConnell							Campbell	Haughton
Antrim (Two members)	O'Neill
Armagh	Allen														Harden
Belfast East	Dixon										Harland		Cole
Belfast North	McConnell				Somerset								Neill
Londonderry	Macnaghten			Ross
Queen's University of Belfast	Whitla	Sinclair									Savory
Down (Two members)	Simms						Vane-Tempest-Stewart						Smiles
Down (Two members)	Reid									Little				Mullan
Belfast South	Moles				Stewart								Gage
Belfast West	Lynn				Allen		Browne
Fermanagh and Tyrone (Two members)			Pringle
Fermanagh and Tyrone (Two members)			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	Savory						Cunningham								Molyneaux
Armagh	Harden					Armstrong				Maginnis							McCusker
Down South	Orr																	Powell
Londonderry	Ross	Wellwood					Chichester-Clark										Ross
Down North	Smiles				Ford		Currie								Kilfedder
Belfast East	McKibbin								McMaster											Craig
Belfast South	Gage			Campbell							Pounder								Bradford			Smyth
Belfast North	Hyde									Mills							Carson
Antrim North	H. O'Neill				P. O'Neill					Clark
Belfast West	Teevan						McLaughlin					Kilfedder
Fermanagh and South Tyrone							Grosvenor					Hamilton					West
Mid Ulster								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	Beggs
Upper Bann	McCusker			Trimble
Belfast South	Smyth
Lagan Valley	Molyneaux					Donaldson
Belfast North	Walker
Fermanagh and South Tyrone	Maginnis												Elliott
Londonderry East	Ross
Strangford	Taylor
Antrim South	Forsythe							Burnside					Kinahan
Down South	Powell
Newry and Armagh	Nicholson
West Tyrone						Thompson
Down North								Hermon
Constituency	11	10	9	9	9	10	9	6	5	1	0	0	2	0

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
Leadership elections	1969 1971 1974 1979 March 1995 September 1995 2000 2004 2005 2010 2012 2017 2019 2021
Organisational structure	Young Unionists
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)
Lists	List of Ulster Unionist Party MPs Ulster Unionist Party Presidents and General Secretaries List of Ulster Unionist Party Peers
Other topics	Chief Whip Election results Electoral history