The Legitimist Party (, PL) was a conservative Nicaraguan political party, the first in its country. The power base of the Legitimist Party was in Granada. The Legitimists were opposed to the Democrats. After several years of civil war between the Legitimists and the Democrats, a provisional government was established in June 1857 which had as its joint leaders the Legitimist Tomás MartÃÂnez and the Democrat Máximo Jerez.
The Nicaraguan Conservative Party defined itself as a continuation of the Legitimist Party and traces its history back to PL's foundation in 1823.