[citation needed] In the second democratic elections in Slovenia on 6 and 10 December 1992, the SNS received 10.2% of the vote and 12 of the 90 seats in parliament.

[22] In the 2002 presidential election, SNS leader Zmago Jelinčič Plemeniti received 8.49% of the vote, placing third.

[26] In Slovenian legislative elections on 21 September 2008, the party's share of the vote declined to 5.4% and its seats in parliament dropped to 5.

[30] It receives support from various strands of society and has traditionally done well among young voters and residents of the regions near the Italian and Austrian borders.

[36] The party has called for a change of the national flag and the coat of arms, feeling that they utilize symbols used by certain World War II paramilitary groups and lack a distinctly Slovenian historical character.

[16] Among other things, Jelinčič has proposed that four disputed villages; Bužini, Mlini, Škodelini and Škrile, be placed within the municipality of Piran to participate in Slovenian elections.

[41] Although the party usually refuses to position itself within a left–right political spectrum, its president Zmago Jelinčič Plemeniti defined himself as leftist in a 2000 interview for the magazine Mladina.

Over the years, the SNS has supported a combination of typically leftist economic policies (such as opposing privatization of key national enterprises) and right-wing social views, explaining the wide variance in its placement within the political spectrum.