The Cartago Agrarian Union Party ( es, Partido Unión Agrícola Cartaginés) is a

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Cartago Province Cartago (), which means Carthage in Spanish, is a province of central Costa Rica. It is one of the smallest provinces, however probably the richest of the Spanish Colonial era sites and traditions. Geography It is located in the central part ...

Costa Rica Costa Rica (, ; ; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( es, República de Costa Rica), is a country in the Central American region of North America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the no ...

. The party was founded in 1969 by Juan Guillermo Brenes Castillo. It first contested a

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in 1970, but received only 0.5% of the vote and failed to win a seat. In

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support for the party more than doubled, receiving 1.2% of the vote and winning its first seat. Nohlen, D (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p174 Despite seeing its share of the vote drop to 1%, the party retained its seat in the 1978 elections. However a further slump to 0.8% in

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saw the party lose its parliamentary representation. It regained a seat in the

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, receiving 1.2% of the national vote. The seat was retained in elections in

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and

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, but a loss of support in the 1998 elections saw its share of the vote drop to 0.5%, resulting in it losing its solitary seat. A similar result in

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saw the party remaining seatless.

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Cartago Agrarian Union Party
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