The Cook Islands Party is a nationalist political party in the Cook Islands. It was the first political party founded in the Cook Islands, and one of the two major parties of the Islands' politics since 1965.
The party won the 2010 election and currently forms the government. The leader of the party is the Prime Minister Henry Puna.
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