Dropulich nominated for the special Senate election for Western Australia held on 5 April 2014, but failed to win a seat.
Dropulich, a Perth-based civil engineer and mining project manager who formerly worked at Rio Tinto, conceived the idea to form his own political party with the help of friends in early 2013.
Following his initial election, he received criticism for his non-committal stance towards a range of political issues.
[7] The Australian Electoral Commission admitted to losing a significant number of Western Australian Senate ballots prior to them being counted, which resulted in the election being referred to the High Court sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns.
[8] Dropulich spent 114 days as a senator-elect, until the High Court declared void the Western Australian Senate results in February 2014.