[citation needed] As of 2011[update] HSD never won any seats in the general elections.

Its only MP was Ivica Pančić who was elected to two consecutive terms in 2003 and 2007 on the Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP) ticket.

While in office he resigned his SDP membership in January 2010 and spent eight months serving as an independent until joining HSD in September 2010.

[3] For the 2007 election, HDS made an alliance with Left of Croatia, Socialist Labour Party of Croatia and Istrian Socialdemocratic Forum.

[5] In August 2010 former SDP member of parliament and minister of war veterans in the Račan government Ivica Pančić announced he was "taking over" the Party.