The party participated in elections for the first time during the
1999 Armenian parliamentary election, winning a total of 6 seats in the
National Assembly. Following the
2003 elections, the party won 19 seats. Also in 2003, Gagik Aslanyan, the Chairman of the People's Democratic Party, opted to merge his party with Orinats Yerkir. Following the
2007 Armenian parliamentary elections, the party obtained 9 seats in the National Assembly. In the
February 2008 presidential election, Baghdasaryan was the party's candidate; he obtained third place, according to the final official results, with 17.7% of the vote. The party participated in the
2009 Yerevan City Council election, winning 5.11% of votes, but failing to gain seats in the
Yerevan City Council. After the
2012 Armenian parliamentary election, the party won 6 seats in the National Assembly. The party participated in the
2013 Yerevan City Council election, winning just 3.73% of votes, gaining no seats in the Yerevan City Council. In 2014, during an interview, Petros Makeyan, the leader of the
Democratic Homeland Party, proclaimed that
Serzh Sargsyan, the leader of the
Republican Party of Armenia, had been indirectly controlling the Orinats Yerkir party for years. In 2017, the party was renamed "Armenian Renaissance" after the creation of a
political alliance with the
Unified Armenians Party, led by Ruben Avagyan. Following the
2017 Armenian parliamentary election, the alliance lost all political representation in the National Assembly, receiving just 3.72% of the popular vote. The alliance dissolved and Orinats Yerkir then decided to restore its original name during a meeting held on 13 February 2018. The party participated in the
2018 Yerevan City Council election, winning just 1.09% of the popular vote, gaining no seats in the Yerevan City Council. The party initially refused to participate in the
2018 Armenian parliamentary election because the National Assembly failed to pass amendments to electoral law, yet days later decided to register with the country's CEC in order to participate in the elections. It received just 0.99% of the popular vote. As this was lower than the 5% minimum threshold required, the party failed to gain any representation in the National Assembly. During the
2020–2021 Armenian protests, Orinats Yerkir announced its support to the
Homeland Salvation Movement political alliance, however, the alliance did not accept their request to join as a full member. The party did not participate in the
2021 Armenian parliamentary election. The party currently acts as an
extra-parliamentary force. ==Ideology==