[2] Hussain al-Saady contested the March 2011 Botany by-election for the party,[3] winning 32 votes (0.2% of the total).

In June 2011, the party was conditionally awarded $20,000 of broadcasting funding for the 2011 election.

[4][5] In September 2011 the Electoral Commission registered the party's logo.

[6] On 27 August 2011, the party took part in a nationwide protest against the Infringing File Sharing Amendment Act: several hundred people around New Zealand drew media attention to the revised law.

[7] The party won 137 votes in Hamilton East,[8] and 277 in Wellington Central.