In the last lesiglative election in November 2024, the party won 12 out of 15 seats in the Legislature of the Virgin Islands.

[1] After the Revised Organic Act of 1954 allowed the Virgin Islands to elect its own legislature, the party quickly gained a monopoly over legislative power.

Since 1954, an separate, unorganized faction of the party called the Unity Party, (also called the Mortar and Pestle Democrats) had existed and won seats in elections, winning a majority in 1962.

[4] In Alexander V. Todman in 1964, the District Court of the United States Virgin Islands declared the takeover null and void and affirmed the validity of the original leadership of the Democratic Party.

(United States District Court, Virgin Islands, D. St. Thomas and St. John.