Founded in 1960, the party was the first political party in Akitsu to advocate for Akitsu to come out of it's self-imposed isolation. When it was founded in 1960, the party didn't get much votes. They fared well in elections, but never got many people elected into office. This changed in the 1990 general election. In the 1990 general election, Akitian media for the first time seriously focused on the platform the Liberal Democratic Party ran. At first, most political commentators didn't expect the Liberal Democratic Party to win much more votes than they already had, believing their anti-isolationist platform to be at odds with the average Akitian political views. However, when the Liberal Democratic Party made some surprising gains in elections, the party started to be seen as a serious c