Ulster Unionist Party - Party Leaders

Party Leaders

  • Colonel Saunderson 1905–1906**
  • Viscount Long 1906–1910**
  • Sir Edward Carson 1910–1921**
  • James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon 1921–1940
  • John Miller Andrews 1940–1946
  • Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough 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 2005–2010
  • Tom Elliott 2010–2012
  • Mike Nesbitt 2012–present
note: ** denotes leaders of the UUP who were also leaders of the Irish Unionist Parliamentary Party.

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