By 2003, the party's voter based had increased dramatically over the 1999 local elections. The party had what many described as a "record election", winning most of its voters from the Labour Party. The 2007 elections went badly for the party; their voter base was reduced by half from the local elections of 2003. In the 2011 local elections, the party fared even worse, getting only slightly above 4% of all votes on a nationwide basis. After this, leader Kristin Halvorsen announced her resignation on the election night.