[8] It also has provisional legal status in San Juan[9] and provincial personality in Misiones.

[10] Along with the Antipersonalist Radical Civic Union (UCR-A) and the Independent Socialist Party (PSI) it was a part of the Concordancia, a coalition government that ruled between 1932 and 1943, a period of Argentine history known as the "Infamous Decade", characterised by massive voter fraud.

Among its leading figures were Robustiano Patrón Costas, Julio Argentino Pascual Roca, Manuel Fresco and Rodolfo Moreno.

For the 2023 Argentine general election, they joined La Libertad Avanza coalition led by Javier Milei and the party secretary-general Victoria Villarruel.

Milei won the election in the run-off, and the Democratic Party obtained seven seats in the Chamber of Deputies and one in the Senate.