It was founded for the 1923 general election and ran as candidate the wealthy aristocrat and lawyer Alberto Echandi Montero, father of the future president Mario Echandi Jiménez.
[1] The party held a convention at the El Trébol Theater to select its presidential candidate, choosing Echandi over former president Rafael Yglesias Castro.
[1] Although Yglesias had asked to vote for Echandi because he claimed to be tired of politics.
The Agricultural Party obtained the majority in the Parliament, but the combined votes of Republicans and Reformists surpassed it, so the Congress finally elected Jiménez as president and Volio as vice president, relegating the echandismo that tried unsuccessfully to break the quorum.
Echandi would continue his political career later getting to obtain important diplomatic and ministerial positions, but the Agricultural Party would disappear, dissolving on January 6, 1926.