[5] After some public campaigning in the Sunday newspaper Il Mattino della Domenica [it] against political power and use of public money, Bignasca and Maspoli founded the Ticino League to continue the fight at the political level.

At the 2011 federal election, the party won 0.8% of the national popular vote and secured two out of 200 seats in the National Council (the first chamber of the Swiss parliament), doubling their representation compared to the single seat they held in 2007 with 0.5% of the vote.

[9] In the 2015 election, the Ticino League slightly increased their share of the national vote to 1.0% and kept their two seats in parliament.

The 2019 Swiss federal election cost the League one of its representatives in the National Council as Roberta Pantani [de] was unable to hold her seat.

[16] However, it supports the project of Insubria,[16] and it has some ties with the regional and federalist northern Italian rightist party Lega Nord.