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The UPA had two councillors elected, and in 1967 both were successfully re-elected as PUP candidates. They stood six candidates against moderate Ulster Unionist Party members of the Stormont parliament in the 1969 election and polled over 20,000 votes.

When Terence O'Neill (the then Northern Irish Prime Minister) stood down from Stormont in 1970 along with one of his colleagues, the PUP nominated candidates for the two vacant seats ( Ian Paisley and William Beattie , PUP leader and deputy respectively). Both were successfully elected to Stormont and in that years general election, Paisley was elected to represent Antrim North in Westminster.

The PUP campaigned for the retention of the union, preferential treatment for Protestants in employment, and for total freedom for OrangeThe Orange Order is a Protestant fraternal organisation largely based in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland which also has a worldwide membership. In Northern Ireland it is formally associated with the Ulster Unionist Party, but many of its me parades. The PUP was wound up in 1971 and re-emerged as the DUP in OctoberOctober is the tenth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 31 days. From the Latin octo for " eight" (it was originally the eighth month of the year, before January and February were inserted). Holidays Halloween Thanksgiving Day in Canada on of that year.

Later in the 1987 general electionThe general election of June 11, 1987 was the third victory in a row for Margaret Thatcher and the Conservatives. She was the first leader since the Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool to win three successive elections. The Conservative government had, George Seawright, a former DUP candidate, defied an official pact between the Unionist parties and revived the Protestant Unionist label for his candidature.

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