[5] It was unclear why they were suspended, but their suspension just a few months before the 2007 Tendring District Council election meant they would be unable to stand again as Conservatives.

[9] In December 2008, Kevin Watson, and council chairman Roy Smith, defected to Tendring First from the Community Representatives Party.

[4] The party endorsed independent candidate Linda Belgrove in the 2012 Essex police and crime commissioner election.

[17][18] The party did not run a candidate in the subsequent by-election, which was won by the Holland-on-Sea Residents' Association.

[19] After the 2023 District Council election, the party's sole councillor, Ann Oxley, joined the coalition administration with independents, Labour and Liberal Democrats.