Ulster unionists
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Ulster Unionist Party
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| Abbreviation | UUP |
| Leader | Robin Swann |
| President | May Steele |
| Chairman | The Lord Empey |
| Founded | 3 March 1905 |
| Preceded by | Irish Unionist Alliance |
| Headquarters | Strandtown Hall 2-4 Belmont Road Belfast Northern Ireland |
| Youth wing | Young Unionists |
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| Political position | Centre-right |
| European affiliation | Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe |
| International affiliation | None |
| European Parliament group | European Conservatives and Reformists |
| Colours | Red, white and blue |
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| NI Assembly |
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| NI Local Councils |
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The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland. Having gathered support in Northern Ireland during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the party governed 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). Between 1905 and 1972 its MPs took the Conservative whip at Westminster.
It is currently the fourth party in Northern Ireland, having been overtaken in 2003 by the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Féin and in 2017 by the SDLP. At the 2015 general election, the party won two seats in the House of Commons, Fermanagh and South Tyrone and South Antrim. At the 2017 general election, the party lost these two seats, and gained no others.
In 2016, the UUP, the SDLP and the Alliance Party decided not to accept the seats on the Northern Ireland Executive to which they would have been entitled and to form an official opposition to the executive. This marked the first time since 1921 that a devolved government in Northern Ireland did not include the UUP. The party was led by Mike Nesbitt, but on 3 March 2017 he announced his resignation following the party's poor performance in that year's assembly election.
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