In the parliamentary elections, the party received only 771 votes, failing to win a seat in the National Assembly.
[1] The party nominated Koigi wa Wamwere as its presidential candidate for the 1997 elections.
He finished tenth out of fifteen candidates with 0.12% of the vote, whilst the party again failed to win a seat in the National Assembly.
KENDA was taken over by businessman Kamlesh Pattni in 2006,[2] and the party fielded 170 candidates,[3] including ten former MPs, in the 2007 general elections,[4] the second highest number of candidates after the Orange Democratic Movement.
In the 2013 elections KENDA nominated 13 National Assembly candidates, receiving 0.2% of the vote, losing its seat.