In the 1989 election, FCN received 10,452 total votes, which allotted it one seat in the Namibian Constituent Assembly.
In the former Coloured homeland, the party received twenty-nine percent of the total vote, less than the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance and SWAPO parties.
This result, surprising as Diergaardt was Kaptein of the Rehoboth Basters at that time, was attributed to Diergaardt's secession plans for the territory around Rehoboth.
[6] President Diergaardt took FCN's sole Constituent Assembly seat but soon resigned on health grounds.
[7] In the 1994 Namibian parliamentary election, the party failed to earn a seat and received just 1,166 total votes.