They secured 3 & 2 seats of North western and Central Provincial councils obtaining 46,114 and 45,239 votes form respective provinces.

Democratic party got defeated badly in the Uva Provisional council election held on 20 September 2014.

The Democratic Party has declared its support for the opposition common candidate Maithripala Sirisena.

Party leader field marshal Sarath Fonseka announced he would contest alone for parliamentary election scheduled on 17 August 2015.

Surprisingly DP faced a massive slide in the election in which they could garner only 28,587 votes across the country, resulting in no representation in the 8th parliament of Sri Lanka.