[1] It was the ruling party until Stambolov was dismissed from his post of Prime Minister by Prince Ferdinand in 1894,[2] after which it was briefly banned.
In the elections the following year the NLP was reduced to just eight seats.
[4] The party fared badly until Balkan Wars of 1912–1913, winning eight seats in 1903, just one in 1908 and six in 1911.
[7] After World War I the party split into two factions, one led by Dobri Petkov and the other by Nikola Genadiev.
The 1920 elections saw both factions double their seat tally.