Ulster Unionist Party

The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP, sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or OUP or simply the Unionist Party ) is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland, and was the party of government in Northern Ireland between 1921 and 1972. Until 2003 it was the largest party, but it has been overtaken by the Democratic Unionist Party.

Party Leaders

• Colonel Edward James Saunderson 1905-1906
• Walter Long 1906-1910
• Sir Edward Carson 1910-1921
• Sir James Craig 1921-1940
• John Miller Andrews 1940-1946
• Sir Basil Brooke 1946-1963
• Captain Terence O'Neill 1963-1969
• Major James Chichester-Clark 1969-1971
• Brian Faulkner 1971-1974
• Harry West 1974-1979
• James Molyneaux 1979-1995
• David Trimble 1995-2005
• Sir Reg Empey 2005-present