The party contested the 2001 election in all counties, but in 2003 in only one; a lack of resources led Jonstad himself to head a local Democrats list instead.

[1] The NFP was founded in December 1999,[2] and Jonstad was chosen as the party's first leader at its national convention in Risør in August 2000.

Following a failed merger of the party with the National Alliance, the NFP was registered in its current state on 24 August 2002.

[4] In 2008, the party filed suit against the Ny Tid magazine for publishing an alleged racist article by Ali Farah;[9] in 2009, it reported various people to the police who had helped an Iranian who had lost her Norwegian residence permit back to Norway.

[11][12] It also wants to limit public authority and bureaucracy "as much as possible," and to introduce binding referendums in "important questions".