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
MemberConstituencyYears 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
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) Craig McConnell Campbell Haughton
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
Reid Little Mullan
Belfast South Moles Stewart Gage
Belfast West Lynn Allen Browne
Fermanagh and Tyrone (Two members) Pringle
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
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