Northern Ireland Conservatives
Election First Preference Vote Vote% Seats
1989 5,204 0.8% 6 / 565
1993 9,438 1.0% 6 / 582
1997 2,634 0.4% 3 / 575
2001 1,985 0.3% 0 / 582
2005 1,164 0.2% 0 / 582
2011 1,321 0.2% 0 / 583
2014 2,527 0.4% 0 / 462
2019 1,364 0.2% 0 / 462
Election results and governments -- Local government elections
The Northern Ireland Conservatives is a section of the United Kingdom's Conservative Party that operates in Northern Ireland. The party won 0.4% of the vote in the 2016 Northern Ireland Assembly election, and 0.3% of the vote in the 2017 Northern Ireland Assembly election. In 2009, the party entered an electoral alliance with the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), whereby the two parties fielded joint candidates for elections to the House of Commons and the European Parliament under the banner of Ulster Conservatives and Unionists - New Force. Literature and the website for the 2009 European Parliament election used Conservatives and Unionists as the short name. The alliance ended after the 2010 UK General Election. Since February 2019, the party has been led by Neil Johnston.