Hughes and Evans devoted their efforts towards this end, in their capacity as powerful executives within the ALP.
Ultimately, the position of the Hughes-Evans group came to be seen as untenable within the ALP, and their influence began to wane.
State Labor contested the poll for election to the House of Representatives in NSW, and achieved 6.6% of the vote in that state (2.6% nationally), but failed to see any of its candidates (including Greg McGirr) elected.
The party's final attempt to gain parliamentary representation was at the federal election of August 1943, but it polled less than 1% nationally.
Five months later (January 1944), the State Labor Party voted to end its own existence and amalgamated with the CPA.