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The party's first electoral outing was when 7 candidates contested the November 1982 general election under the Ecology Party banner, winning 0. 2 % of the vote.

Following a name-change, they contested the 1984 European Parliament elections, with their party founder winning 1. 9 % in the Dublin constituency.

The following year they won their first election when Marcus Counihan was elected to Killarney Urban District Council during the 1985 Local Elections.

The party nationally ran 34 candidates and won 0. 6 % of the vote.

The party continued to struggle until the general election of 1989 when the again renamed party won its first seat in parliament, the Dáil, when Roger Garland was elected in Dublin South.

In the 1994 European Parliament election Patricia McKenna topped the poll for the Dublin Constituency and Nuala Ahern won a seat in Leinster.

They retained their seats in 1999 although the party lost 5 councillors in local elections held that year despite an increase in their vote.

In the general election of 1997 the party gained a seat when John Gormley won a Dáil seat in Dublin South – East.