[1] Prior to the 1992 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, it created an electoral alliance with the Kurdish Socialist Party (PASOK).

[2] A mere month later, a faction under Mohammed Haji Mahmoud broke away from the KDP again, re-establishing the KSP-I.

The following year, it was renamed to Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party (Kurdish: حزبی سۆسیالیست دیموکراتی کوردستان, romanized: Hizbî Sosyalîst Dîmukratî Kurdistan; Arabic: الحزب الاشتراكي الديمقراطي الكردستاني, romanized: Hizb al-Ishtiraki al-Dimuqrati al-Kurdistani).

The party's forces have fought in the Iraqi Civil War against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), mostly in the region south of Kirkuk.

[6] In late January 2024, the rivalry reemerged over a dispute whose son would become president of the Baxtiyarî Sports Club in Silêmanî.

During the tensions, Elîs son reportedly opened fire, which led security forces to intervene.

[9] On April 4, the house of Ebdulla Haji Mahmoud's son in the village of Gulxane northwest of Halabja was attacked by an armed group.