[1] Its first electoral test was the April 1949 local elections, in which it received 13% of the vote, winning one of the 18 seats.
In the next local elections in December the party's vote share increased to 43%,[2] although it only won two of the six seats.
However, the party saw several splits in the early 1950s, leading to the formation of the Labour Front.
By the 1955 general elections the party had lost both its MPs,[4] and received less than 1% of the vote, failing to win a seat.
The party did not contest the 1959 general elections, and after the Societies Ordinance came into force in 1960, it failed to re-register.