[citation needed] On 12 March 1994 Viljoen handed in a list of candidates for the FF to the IEC, confirming that his party would take part in the elections.

The party performed the best in the rural areas of the former Transvaal and Orange Free State, and was noted by the new deputy president Thabo Mbeki as representing possibly as much as half the Afrikaner voting population in these areas, with the strongest support among farmers and the working class.

In the 1999 election their support dropped to 0.8% (127,217 votes cast) with three seats in the National Assembly and between 1 and 2% in its stronghold provinces.

The party's support remained relatively stable in all national elections held during the next twenty years.

After the elections, the FF Plus's leader Pieter Mulder was appointed as Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries by the new President Jacob Zuma.

[11] This was highlighted when the FF Plus and the Bruin Bemagtiging Beweging (Brown Movement) – an interest group focused on Coloureds led by Peter Marais, the former premier of the Western Cape[12] – formed an official alliance.

[17][18][19][20] In the run up to the 2021 local government elections, the FF Plus adopted Cape Independence as an official party position.

[24] In the 2024 general election, the FF Plus gave up many of the gains it had previously made against the DA, winning only six seats in Parliament (National Assembly) with 1.36% of the vote.

[25] In June 2024, Freedom Front Plus agreed to join the ANC-led government of national unity (GNU) aka Third Cabinet of Cyril Ramaphosa.

[27] On 22 February 2025, Mulder was elected unopposed to succeed Groenewald as party leader after the latter chose not to seek re-election.

[52][53][54] As of 2021, its stated policy positions include abolishing affirmative action and replacing it with merit-based appointments,[55] and opposing the proposed expropriation without compensation land reform movement to protect the rights and interests of minorities, especially Afrikaners[56] and Afrikaans-speaking Coloureds.

[59] The party is critical of what it regards as South Africa's contradictory foreign policy under the governing African National Congress (ANC).