[1] The party wants to maintain the Faroe Islands' union with Denmark.

On 24 October 2015, Bárður á Steig Nielsen succeeded Kaj Leo Johannesen as party leader.

In the elections in 2008, the party won 21.0% of the popular vote and 7 out of 33 seats.

After having been in the opposition for a short interval after the elections, the Union Party formed a new government in September 2008, and Kaj Leo Johannesen became prime minister.

At the general elections in 2011, the party gained 24.7% of the votes and eight seats out of 33.