It grew through the course of 1998, with four MPs in August, five in October, and six in December: Agiru, Masket Iangalio, Peter Ipatas, Alfred Kaiabe, Charles Luta and Roy Yaki.

[15] By December, Akoitai was serving as Mining Minister in the Somare government, and it was reported that seven independent MPs had joined the party.

[18] In November 2003, Akoitai was replaced as leader by Tim Neville, who stated "we wanted to put some fire into the party", heading what had become a caucus of nine MPs.

[22] In January 2004, Akoitai and Agiru attempted to eject eight United Resources Party MPs who had been originally elected as independents from the party: Neville, William Duma, Isaac Taitibe, John Vulupindi, Benny Allen, Kuri Kingal, Clement Nakmai and Malcolm 'Kela' Smith.

[27] In June 2004, Peter Launa, a candidate for the Neville faction, was elected in a by-election for the Chimbu Regional seat.

[39] The party had at that time recently held a fundraising dinner at which controversial[40] Australian mining magnate and politician Clive Palmer had spoken and raised $AU600,000.

[46] The party won seven seats at the 2012 election: Mai Dop, Duma, Joe Lera, Benjamin Phillip, Steven Kamma Pirika, Fabian Pok and Anton Yagama.

[51] In July, it was reported that Phillip and Francis Marus had defected from the URP to the governing People's National Congress.