On 24 February 2010 Ringland was adopted by the Ulster Unionist Party and Conservative Party as their joint candidate in East Belfast for the 2010 General Election.
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In September 2010, Ringland became involved in a controversy over the new leader of Ulster Unionist Party, Tom Elliott.
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Those submitting formal objections included Mid-Antrim Unionist Association, two Orange lodges, Ballymena Black Chapter, and the local Free Presbyterian Church.
On January 11, 2005, Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for South Antrim David Burnside told the British House of Commons under parliamentary privilege that Storey was head of intelligence for the Irish Republican Army.
Active in the Ulster Farmers' Union and in Unionist associations, he achieved senior office in the Orange Order and the Royal Black Institution and served on Omagh Rural District Council from 1952 until his death.
Until 1 January 2011 he was an Ulster Unionist Party member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (1998–present) for East Londonderry and was the Ulster Unionist Party’s chief whip at the Assembly but has since then vowed to fight future elections as an independent.
district MLAs = Fermanagh & South Tyrone & Mid Ulster
Sinn Féin: 6
DUP: 1
SDLP: 1
UUP
At the Northern Ireland general election, 1953, she was elected as an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) MP for the Queen's University, Belfast seat.
It was later reported that while the lower Falls was under curfew and the streets emptied of people, the Army had driven two Unionist ministers, John Brooke and William Long, through the area in armoured vehicles.
At the Northern Ireland general election, 1945, Downey was elected for Belfast Dock, defeating sitting Ulster Unionist Party member George Anthony Clark.
district MLAs = Newry and Armagh & South Down
Sinn Féin: 5
SDLP: 3
DUP: 2
UUP
They stood six candidates against the relatively moderate Ulster Unionist Party members of the parliament of Northern Ireland in the 1969 election and polled over 20,000 votes.
Following the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 Mallon became Deputy First Minister in the Assembly, serving alongside Ulster Unionist Party leader David Trimble.
At the Northern Ireland general election, 1938, he was elected for the Ulster Unionist Party in Belfast Dock, although he lost his seat at the 1945 general election.
It resulted in the narrow virtory of the incumbent Ulster Unionist Party, Enoch Powell, a seat that some had predicted he would lose.
It was nominally formed by Robert McCartney, formerly of the Ulster Unionist Party, to contest a by-election the North Down by-election, 1995 and then further constituted to contest the 1996 elections for the Northern Ireland Forum.
It was created in 1952 for the Ulster Unionist politician and Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Captain The Rt. Hon. Sir Basil Brooke, 5th Bt., P.C. (N.I.), M.P..
James Harold McCusker (1940–1990), Northern Ireland Ulster Unionist Party politician
The comments prompted Ulster Unionist Party leader, Mike Nesbitt to state that his views were expressed in a personal capacity and did not reflect party policy.
Beggs was known as one of the more hard-line members of the UUP, being vociferous in his Euroscepticism and his suspicions about the Belfast Agreement - initially involving himself in Union First (a group within the Ulster Unionist Party opposed to the Agreement), although in his final two years in Parliament he appeared publicly supportive of the Agreement and of leader David Trimble.