It was registered with the Electoral Commission on 8 July 2005, and launched in Glenfinnan to coincide with the 31st G8 summit and roughly with the 260th anniversary of Bonnie Prince Charlie raising his standard there in 1745.

[2] Though Jacobitism means the restoration of the House of Stuart to the throne of Scotland or the UK, the party was republican; leader Dr John Black told The Guardian that "It is an attempt to tie into the romance of Scottish history.

[2] The party's ideal Scottish republic would be outside the European Union but use the euro.

[citation needed] The SJP was de-registered and removed from the Electoral Commission's Register of Political Parties on 19 July 2007,[1] but re-registered on 22 March 2010.

John Black received 156 votes for this party in the 2010 election in Argyll and Bute.