The 1940 elections saw the Voters Association, an informal grouping of white politicians, win 19 of the 24 seats in the House of Assembly.
The following year, the group became a formal political party under the name "Barbados Electors Association".
[1] In the 1942 elections they won 15 seats, but the 1944 elections saw the party reduced to eight seats under the leadership of Fred Goddard, with the Barbados Progressive League and the West Indian National Congress Party forming a coalition government.
In the 1951 elections, the first under universal suffrage, the party (now led by Ernest Mottley) won four seats.
They contested the 1956 elections as the Progressive Conservative Party, winning three seats.