 | This article needs additional citations for verification .(July 2018) |
This article lists the Northern Ireland Conservatives election results in UK parliamentary elections.
| | This article needs additional citations for verification .(July 2018) |
This article lists the Northern Ireland Conservatives election results in UK parliamentary elections.
| Year | Number of candidates | Total votes |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 11 | 44,608 |
| 1997 | 8 | 9,858 |
| 2001 | 3 | 2,422 |
| 2005 | 3 | 2,718 |
| 2010 | 17 (UCU-NF) | 102,631 |
| 2015 | 16 | 9,055 |
| 2017 | 7 | 2,399 [1] |
| 2019 | 4 | 5,433 |
| Election | Candidate | Votes | % | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 Upper Bann by-election | Colette Jones | 1,038 | 3.0 | 6 |
| Constituency | Candidate | Votes | % | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belfast East | David Greene | 3,314 | 9.3 | 3 |
| Belfast North | Margaret Redpath | 2,107 | 5.9 | 5 |
| Belfast South | Andrew Fee | 3,356 | 10.0 | 4 |
| East Antrim | Myrtle Boal | 3,359 | 8.6 | 4 |
| East Londonderry | Alan Elder | 1,589 | 3.0 | 5 |
| Lagan Valley | Timothy R. Coleridge | 4,423 | 9.0 | 4 |
| North Antrim | Richard Sowler | 2,263 | 5.0 | 5 |
| North Down | Laurence Kennedy | 14,371 | 32.0 | 2 |
| South Down | Stephanie McKenzie-Hill | 1,488 | 2.4 | 5 |
| Strangford | Stephen Eyre | 6,782 | 15.1 | 4 |
| Upper Bann | Collette Jones | 1,556 | 3.4 | 5 |
| Election | Candidate | Votes | % | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 North Down by-election | Stuart Sexton | 583 | 2.1 | 5 |
| Constituency | Candidate | Votes | % | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belfast East | Sarah Dines | 928 | 2.4 | 4 |
| Belfast South | Myrtle Boal | 962 | 2.4 | 7 |
| East Antrim | Terence Dick | 2,334 | 6.8 | 4 |
| East Londonderry | James Holmes | 436 | 1.0 | 6 |
| Lagan Valley | Stuart E. Sexton | 1,212 | 2.7 | 5 |
| North Down | Leonard Fee | 1,810 | 5.0 | 4 |
| Strangford | Gilbert Chalk | 1,743 | 4.2 | 5 |
| Upper Bann | Brian Price | 433 | 0.9 | 7 |
| Constituency | Candidate | Votes | % | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belfast East | Terry Dick | 800 | 2.2 | 7 |
| East Antrim | Alan Greer | 807 | 2.2 | 7 |
| North Down | Julian Robertson | 815 | 2.2 | 4 |
| Constituency | Candidate | Votes | % | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belfast East | Alan Greer | 434 | 1.4 | 6 |
| North Down | Julian Robertson | 822 | 2.5 | 5 |
| Strangford | Terry Dick | 1,462 | 3.9 | 5 |
Candidates stood as part of an electoral alliance with the Ulster Unionist Party with the ballot paper description Ulster Conservatives and Unionists - New Force.
| Constituency | Candidate | Votes | % | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belfast East | Trevor Ringland | 7,305 | 21.2 | 3 |
| Belfast North | Fred Cobain | 2,837 | 7.7 | 4 |
| Belfast South | Paula Bradshaw | 5,910 | 17.3 | 3 |
| Belfast West | Bill Manwaring | 1,000 | 3.1 | 4 |
| East Antrim | Rodney McCune | 7,223 | 23.7 | 2 |
| East Londonderry | Lesley Macaulay | 6,218 | 17.8 | 3 |
| Foyle | David Harding | 1,221 | 3.2 | 5 |
| Lagan Valley | Daphne Trimble | 7,713 | 21.1 | 2 |
| Mid Ulster | Sandra Overend | 4,509 | 11.0 | 4 |
| Newry and Armagh | Danny Kennedy | 8,558 | 19.1 | 3 |
| North Antrim | Irwin Armstrong | 4,634 | 10.9 | 4 |
| North Down | Ian Parsley | 6,817 | 20.4 | 2 |
| South Antrim | Reg Empey | 10,353 | 30.4 | 2 |
| South Down | John McCallister | 3,093 | 7.3 | 4 |
| Strangford | Mike Nesbitt | 9,050 | 27.8 | 2 |
| Upper Bann | Harry Hamilton | 10,639 | 25.7 | 2 |
| West Tyrone | Ross Hussey | 5,281 | 14.2 | 3 |
| Constituency | Candidate | Votes | % | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belfast East | Neil Wilson | 1,121 | 2.8 | 3 |
| Belfast South | Ben Manton | 582 | 1.5 | 8 |
| Belfast West | Paul Shea | 34 | 0.1 | 9 |
| East Antrim | Alex Wilson | 549 | 1.6 | 8 |
| East Londonderry | Liz St Clair-Legge | 422 | 1.2 | 7 |
| Foyle | Hamish Badenoch | 132 | 0.4 | 7 |
| Lagan Valley | Helen Osborne | 654 | 1.6 | 9 |
| Mid Ulster | Lucille Nicholson | 120 | 0.3 | 9 |
| Newry and Armagh | Robert Rigby | 210 | 0.4 | 5 |
| North Antrim | Carol-Anne Freeman | 368 | 0.9 | 8 |
| North Down | Mark Brotherston | 1,593 | 4.4 | 5 |
| South Antrim | Alan Dunlop | 415 | 1.1 | 7 |
| South Down | Felicity Buchan | 318 | 0.7 | 6 |
| Strangford | Johnny Andrews | 2,167 | 6.4 | 6 |
| Upper Bann | Amandeep Singh Bhogal | 201 | 0.4 | 8 |
| West Tyrone | Claire-Louise Leyland | 169 | 0.4 | 8 |
| Constituency | Candidate | Votes | % | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belfast East | Sheila Bodel | 446 | 1.0 | 6 |
| Belfast South | Clare Salier | 246 | 0.6 | 7 |
| East Antrim | Mark Logan | 963 | 2.5 | 6 |
| East Londonderry | Liz St Clair-Legge | 330 | 0.8 | 6 |
| Lagan Valley | Ian Nickels | 462 | 1.0 | 6 |
| North Down | Frank Shivers | 941 | 2.4 | 5 |
| Strangford | Claire Hiscott | 507 | 1.3 | 7 |
| Constituency | Candidate | Votes | % | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Antrim | Aaron Rankin | 1,043 | 2.8 | 5 |
| Lagan Valley | Gary Hynds | 955 | 2.1 | 6 |
| North Down | Matthew Robinson | 1,959 | 4.8 | 4 |
| Strangford | Grant Abraham | 1,476 | 3.9 | 5 |
| Constituency | Candidate | Votes | % | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Londonderry | Claire Scull | 187 | 0.5 | 9 |
| Newry and Armagh | Samantha Rayner | 83 | 0.2 | 8 |
| South Down | Hannah Westropp | 46 | 0.1 | 9 |
| Strangford | Barry Hetherington | 146 | 0.4 | 10 |
| West Tyrone | Stephen Lynch | 91 | 0.2 | 8 |
The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland. 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. Following the partition of Ireland, it was the governing party of Northern Ireland between 1921 and 1972. It was supported by most unionist voters throughout the conflict known as the Troubles, during which time it was often referred to as the Official Unionist Party (OUP).
Sylvia Eileen, Lady Hermon is a retired Unionist politician from Northern Ireland. She served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of North Down from 2001 to 2019.
The Ulster Popular Unionist Party (UPUP) was a unionist political party in Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1980 by James Kilfedder, independent Unionist Member of Parliament for North Down, who led the party until his death in 1995. For a brief period in 1980, it was known as the Ulster Progressive Unionist Party before it adopted the "Popular" name.
The Good Friday Agreement referendum, 1998 was a referendum held in Northern Ireland over whether there was support for the Good Friday Agreement. The result was a majority (71.1%) in favour. A simultaneous referendum held in the Republic of Ireland produced an even larger majority (94.4%) in favour.
East Antrim is a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons. It is currently represented by Sammy Wilson of the Democratic Unionist Party.
North Down is a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons. The current MP is Alex Easton, elected at the 2024 United Kingdom general election.
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 was led for much of its existence by Colonel Edward James Saunderson and later by St John Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton. In total, eighty-six members of the House of Lords affiliated themselves with the Irish Unionist Alliance, although its broader membership among Irish voters outside Ulster was relatively small.
The 2005 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 5 May 2005, to elect 646 members to the House of Commons. The governing Labour Party led by the prime minister Tony Blair won its third consecutive victory, with Blair becoming the second Labour leader after Harold Wilson to form three majority governments. However, its majority fell to 66 seats; the majority it won four years earlier had been of 167 seats.
The 1995 North Down by-election, in the North Down constituency, was held on 15 June, following the death of James Kilfedder, who had represented the constituency since the 1970 general election. Kilfedder had formed the Ulster Popular Unionist Party in 1980, but the party disintegrated on his death.
The Irish Conservative Party, often called the Irish Tories, was one of the dominant Irish political parties in Ireland in the 19th century. It was affiliated with the Conservative Party in Great Britain. Throughout much of the century it and the Irish Liberal Party were rivals for electoral dominance among Ireland's small electorate within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with parties such as the movements of Daniel O'Connell and later the Independent Irish Party relegated into third place. The Irish Conservatives became the principal element of the Irish Unionist Alliance following the alliance's foundation in 1891.
Independent Unionist has been a label sometimes used by candidates in elections in the United Kingdom, indicating a support for British unionism.
The Northern Ireland Conservatives is a section of the United Kingdom's Conservative Party that operates in Northern Ireland. The Conservatives are the only major British party to field candidates within Northern Ireland and typically contests only a fraction of seats in elections. The party won 0.03% of the vote in the 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election and 0.1% of the vote in the 2024 United Kingdom General election in Northern Ireland.
The Ulster Conservatives and Unionists, officially registered as the Ulster Conservatives and Unionists – New Force (UCUNF), was an electoral alliance in Northern Ireland between the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and the Conservative Party.
The Home Rule movement was a movement that campaigned for self-government for Ireland within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It was the dominant political movement of Irish nationalism from 1870 to the end of World War I.
The 2015 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland was held on 7 May 2015 and all 18 seats were contested. 1,236,765 people were eligible to vote, up 67,581 from the 2010 general election. 58.45% of eligible voters turned out, an increase of half a percentage point from the last general election. This election saw the return of Ulster Unionists to the House of Commons, after they targeted 4 seats but secured 2.
The 1959 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland was held on 8 October with 12 MPs elected in single-seat constituencies using first-past-the-post as part of the wider general election in the United Kingdom.
The 1970 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland was held on 31 March with 12 MPs elected in single-seat constituencies using first-past-the-post as part of the wider general election in the United Kingdom. It was the first general election held after the Representation of the People Act 1969 which reduced the voting age from 21 to 18.