General elections were held in Costa Rica on 5 April 1863 to elect the president for a three-year term. Incumbent José María Montealegre was constitutionally barred from seeking immediate re-election. Former First Designate Jesús Jiménez Zamora was...
The following elections occurred in the year 1863.
General elections were held in Costa Rica on 8 April 1860 to elect the president for a three-year term. These were the first elections conducted under the 1859 Constitution. Incumbent president José María Montealegre, who had assumed power following...
General elections were held in Costa Rica on 1 April 1866. José María Castro Madriz was elected president of Costa Rica for the 1866-1869 period, which would not finish since in 1868 he was overthrown by his predecessor Jesús Jiménez Zamora. Madriz...
The following is the list of all the heads of state of Costa Rica.
Juan Rafael Mora Porras, widely known as Don Juanito (8 February 1814 – 30 September 1860), was a Costa Rican merchant and politician who served as the 2nd President of Costa Rica for three consecutive terms (1849–1859). He came to office in 1849...
The Constitution of Costa Rica is the supreme law of Costa Rica. At the end of the 1948 Costa Rican Civil War, José Figueres Ferrer oversaw the Costa Rican Constitutional Assembly, which drafted the document. It was approved on 7 November 1949.
The history of the Costa Rican legislature is long and starts from even before its formal independence from the Spanish Empire. Costa Rica is one of the world's oldest democracies, thus, its parliamentary history dates back several centuries.
The 1949 Constitution of Costa Rica established two vice presidencies of Costa Rica, which are directly elected through a popular vote on a ticket with the president for a period of four years, with no immediate re-election. There have been various...
José de la Ascensión Esquivel Ibarra (10 May 1844 – 15 April 1923) was a Costa Rican jurist, diplomat and politician who served as the 17th President of Costa Rica from 1902 to 1906. He had previously served as Secretary of Foreign Affairs from 1885...
