 In later years it used the names Victorian Country Party, then United Country Party and is now the National Party of Australia – Victoria.At the 1917 election, because the support for the VFU was concentrated in rural seats, it won four of the 11 seats in the Victorian Legislative Assembly it contested, gaining about 6% of the vote state-wide.In 1918 it also won its first seat in the federal parliament, after preferential voting was introduced.