[1] It was led by Nii Amaa Ollennu, with Frederick Nanka-Bruce as chairman.
It campaigned against Kwame Nkrumah's Convention People's Party (CPP), claiming that the CPP's candidates were inexperienced and extreme, while its candidates were both experienced and respectable.
[2] The British colonial officials welcomed the formation of the party, but privately expressed doubts about its popular appeal.
[1] At the 1951 Gold Coast legislative election, the party ran in co-ordination with the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC).
[2] The party did not win any seats; in the largest constituency, Accra, Ollennu took only 742 votes, and his running mate, Kofi Adumoa Bossman, 666, while Nkrumah won 20,780 and Thomas Hutton-Mills Jr., also of the CPP, 19,812.