The Independent Guanacaste Party is a political party

Political party

A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...

 in Guanacaste Province

Guanacaste Province

Guanacaste is a province of Costa Rica located in the northwestern part of the country, along the coast of the Pacific Ocean. To the north it borders Nicaragua. To the east is the Alajuela Province, and to the southeast is the Puntarenas Province. It is the most sparsely populated of all the...

, Costa Rica

Costa Rica

Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....

. Its president is José Angel Jara Chavarría, and the General Secretary Luis Eduardo (Chito) Arata Herrero.

The party was founded in 1989 and first contested general elections in 1994

Costa Rican general election, 1994

General elections were held in Costa Rica on 6 February 1994. José María Figueres of the National Liberation Party won the presidential election, whilst his party also won the parliamentary election. Voter turnout was 81.1%.-President:-Parliament:...

. However, it received only 0.2% of the vote and failed to win a seat. In the 1998 elections

Costa Rican general election, 1998

General elections were held in Costa Rica on 1 February 1998. Miguel Ángel Rodríguez of the Social Christian Unity Party won the presidential election, whilst his party also won the parliamentary election. Voter turnout was 70%, the lowest since the 1950s....

it received just 0.1% of the vote and remained without parliamentary representation.

External links

• Independent Guanacaste Party TSE
• Party statute TSE