The group won 16 seats, of which Hapoel HaMizrachi took seven, making it the third largest party in the Knesset after Mapai and Mapam.

The United Religious Front played a major part in bringing down the first government due to it disagreement with Mapai over issues pertaining to education in the new immigrant camps and the religious education system, as well as its demands that the Supply and Rationing Ministry be closed and a businessman appointed as Minister for Trade and Industry.

In the 1951 elections the party ran for the Knesset alone under the title of Torah and Work – Hapoel HaMizrachi.

For the 1955 elections the party joined forces with its ideological twin, Mizrachi, to form the National Religious Front.

The new party won eleven seats (of which Hapoel HaMizrachi held nine), making it the fourth largest, and were again coalition partners in both governments of the third Knesset.