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The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland. [5] The party was founded as the Ulster Unionist Council in 1905, emerging from the Irish Unionist Alliance in Ulster. Under Edward Carson, it led unionist opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement.
United Ulster Unionist Party (1975–1984) Progressive Unionist Party (1978–present) Ulster Popular Unionist Party (1980–1995) Ulster (Loyalist) Democratic Party (1982–2001) UK Independence Party (UKIP 1993–present) UK Unionist Party (UKUP 1995–2007) United Unionist Coalition (1998–2012) Northern Ireland Unionist Party (1999–2008)
The Irish Unionist Alliance (IUA), also known as the Irish Unionist Party, Irish Unionists or simply the Unionists, was a unionist political party founded in Ireland in 1891 from a merger of the Irish Conservative Party and the Irish Loyal and Patriotic Union (ILPU) to oppose plans for home rule for Ireland within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
The party emerged following splits in the Ulster Unionist Party in 1973 and 1974 over the British government's white paper Northern Ireland Constitutional Proposals, the 1973 Northern Ireland Assembly election, and the Sunningdale Agreement. Faulkner had led the majority of the UUP into a power-sharing coalition but in January 1974 he was ...
Unionist Party of Northern Ireland, existed from 1974 and 1981; United Ulster Unionist Party, existed from 1975 and 1982, splinted from the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party due to a disagreement over power-sharing; Ulster Popular Unionist Party, existed from 1980 to 1995; UK Unionist Party, existed 1995 to 2008
Also leader of the Irish Unionist Parliamentary Party: 2: Walter Hume Long: 1906: 1910: Also leader of the Irish Unionist Parliamentary Party: 3: Sir Edward Carson: 1910: 1921: Also leader of the Irish Unionist Parliamentary Party: 4: The Viscount Craigavon: 1921: 1940: 1st Prime Minister of Northern Ireland: 5: John Miller Andrews: 1940: 1946 ...
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.
Under Beattie's leadership, the UUP returned to the House of Commons at the 2024 general election following Robin Swann's victory in South Antrim. [4] The party selected Colin Crawford to succeed Swann as Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for North Antirm in July 2024. [5]