Ricardo Toledo Carranza

Ricardo Jaime Toledo Carranza (born 23 September 1958) is a Costa Rican lawyer, diplomat and politician. A member of the Social Christian Unity Party, he served as Minister of the Presidency from 2003 to 2004 and as a deputy in the Legislative Assembly from 2002 to 2006.

Toledo was the PUSC candidate in the 2006 presidential election, in which he received 3.55% of the vote and finished fourth among the candidates. The result represented a significant decline in electoral support for the PUSC compared with previous elections and was widely interpreted as evidence of the party's weakening political influence following a series of political scandals in the early 2000s.