# 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 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 | Craig | Craig | Craig | McConnell | McConnell | McConnell | McConnell | McConnell | McConnell | McConnell | Campbell | Haughton | Haughton | Haughton |
| O'Neill |||||||||||||||
| Armagh | Allen | Allen | Allen | Allen | Allen | Allen | Allen | Allen | Allen | Allen | Allen | Allen | Allen | Allen | Harden |
| Belfast East | Dixon | Dixon | Dixon | Dixon | Dixon | Dixon | Dixon | Dixon | Dixon | Dixon | Harland | Harland | Cole | Cole | Cole |
| Belfast North | McConnell | McConnell | McConnell | McConnell | Somerset | Somerset | Somerset | Somerset | Somerset | Somerset | Somerset | Somerset | Neill | Neill | Neill |
| Londonderry | Macnaghten | Macnaghten | Macnaghten | Ross | Ross | Ross | Ross | Ross | Ross | Ross | Ross | Ross | Ross | Ross | Ross |
| Queen's University of Belfast | Whitla | Sinclair | Sinclair | Sinclair | Sinclair | Sinclair | Sinclair | Sinclair | Sinclair | Sinclair | Savory | Savory | Savory | Savory | Savory |
| Down (Two members) | Simms | Simms | Simms | Simms | Simms | Simms | Vane-Tempest-Stewart | Vane-Tempest-Stewart | Vane-Tempest-Stewart | Vane-Tempest-Stewart | Vane-Tempest-Stewart | Vane-Tempest-Stewart | Smiles | Smiles | Smiles |
| Down (Two members) | Reid | Reid | Reid | Reid | Reid | Reid | Reid | Reid | Reid | Little | Little | Little | | Mullan | Mullan |
| Belfast South | Moles | Moles | Moles | Moles | Stewart | Stewart | Stewart | Stewart | | | | | Gage | Gage | Gage |
| Belfast West | Lynn | Lynn | Lynn | Lynn | Allen | | Browne | Browne | Browne | Browne | Browne | | | | |
| Fermanagh and Tyrone (Two members) | | | Pringle | Pringle | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Fermanagh and Tyrone (Two members) | | | Falls | 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 | Savory | Savory | Savory | Savory | Savory | Cunningham | Cunningham | Cunningham | Cunningham | Cunningham | Cunningham | Cunningham | Cunningham | Molyneaux | Molyneaux | Molyneaux | Molyneaux | Molyneaux | Molyneaux | Molyneaux | Molyneaux |
| Armagh | Harden | Harden | Harden | Harden | Harden | Armstrong | Armstrong | Armstrong | Armstrong | Maginnis | Maginnis | Maginnis | Maginnis | Maginnis | Maginnis | Maginnis | McCusker | McCusker | McCusker | McCusker | McCusker | McCusker |
| Down South | Orr | Orr | Orr | Orr | Orr | Orr | Orr | Orr | Orr | Orr | Orr | Orr | Orr | Orr | Orr | Orr | Orr | Powell | Powell | Powell | Powell | Powell |
| Londonderry | Ross | Wellwood | Wellwood | Wellwood | Wellwood | Wellwood | Chichester-Clark | Chichester-Clark | Chichester-Clark | Chichester-Clark | Chichester-Clark | Chichester-Clark | Chichester-Clark | Chichester-Clark | Chichester-Clark | Chichester-Clark | Ross | Ross | Ross | Ross | Ross | Ross |
| Down North | Smiles | Smiles | Smiles | Smiles | Ford | Ford | Currie | Currie | Currie | Currie | Currie | Currie | Currie | Currie | Kilfedder | Kilfedder | Kilfedder | Kilfedder | | | | |
| Belfast East | McKibbin | McKibbin | McKibbin | McKibbin | McKibbin | McKibbin | McKibbin | McKibbin | McMaster | McMaster | McMaster | McMaster | McMaster | McMaster | McMaster | McMaster | | | | Craig | | |
| Belfast South | Gage | Gage | Gage | Campbell | Campbell | Campbell | Campbell | Campbell | Campbell | Campbell | Pounder | Pounder | Pounder | Pounder | Pounder | Pounder | | | Bradford | Bradford | Bradford | Smyth |
| Belfast North | Hyde | Hyde | Hyde | Hyde | Hyde | Hyde | Hyde | Hyde | Hyde | Mills | Mills | Mills | Mills | Mills | Mills | | Carson | Carson | Carson | Carson | | |
| Antrim North | H. O'Neill | H. O'Neill | H. O'Neill | H. O'Neill | P. O'Neill | P. O'Neill | P. O'Neill | P. O'Neill | P. O'Neill | Clark | Clark | Clark | Clark | Clark | | | | | | | | |
| Belfast West | Teevan | Teevan | | | | | McLaughlin | McLaughlin | McLaughlin | McLaughlin | McLaughlin | Kilfedder | | | | | | | | | | |
| Fermanagh and South Tyrone | | | | | | | Grosvenor | Grosvenor | Grosvenor | Grosvenor | Grosvenor | Hamilton | Hamilton | Hamilton | | | West | | | | | |
| Mid Ulster | | | | | | | | Forrest | Forrest | Forrest | Forrest | Forrest | 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 | 2019 | 2024 |
| Antrim East | Beggs | Beggs | Beggs | Beggs | Beggs | Beggs | Beggs | Beggs | Beggs | | | | | | | |
| Upper Bann | McCusker | McCusker | McCusker | Trimble | Trimble | Trimble | Trimble | Trimble | Trimble | | | | | | | |
| Belfast South / and Mid Down | Smyth | Smyth | Smyth | Smyth | Smyth | Smyth | Smyth | Smyth | Smyth | | | | | | | |
| Lagan Valley | Molyneaux | Molyneaux | Molyneaux | Molyneaux | Molyneaux | Donaldson | Donaldson | Donaldson | | | | | | | | |
| Belfast North | Walker | Walker | Walker | Walker | Walker | Walker | Walker | | | | | | | | | |
| Fermanagh and South Tyrone | Maginnis | Maginnis | Maginnis | Maginnis | Maginnis | Maginnis | Maginnis | | | | | | Elliott | Elliott |
| Londonderry East | Ross | Ross | Ross | Ross | Ross | Ross | Ross | | | | | | | | | |
| Strangford | Taylor | Taylor | Taylor | Taylor | Taylor | Taylor | Taylor | | | | | | | | | |
| Antrim South | Forsythe | Forsythe | Forsythe | Forsythe | Forsythe | Forsythe | | Burnside | Burnside | | | | Kinahan | Kinahan | | Swann |
| Down South | Powell | Powell | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Newry and Armagh | Nicholson | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| West Tyrone | | | | | | Thompson | Thompson | | | | | | | | | |
| Down North | | | | | | | | Hermon | Hermon | Hermon | | | | | | |
| Constituency | 11 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |