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GUATUSO — Municipal council
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GUATUSO — Municipal council

All 1,973 imported 2016/2020/2024 returns now reconcile seats against 18,155 named elected people, including vice-officers and substitutes. The missing Cartagena 2020 result and eight spelling joins are recovered. Final proclamations replace 17 initial seat allocations. Fifty-two party-acronym joins are explicitly inferred and documented. New-canton predecessors stay separate; replacements, the 2028 call and current incumbents remain to be verified.

Election expectation2028-02-06
Imported event records3
Usable vote comparison cycles3 of 3
Seat comparison cycles3 of 3

Historical competition

Competitiveness index for a verified actual-event sequence withheld. Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete.

Provisional imported-series CI: 0.0/100. This uses the three displayed comparison cycles and retains the open event/boundary audit. It does not confirm the latest three actual completed elections.

Grouped party-share volatility: latest interval 66.6 points; earlier interval 47.6 points; two-interval mean 57.1 points.

Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). Twelve explicitly named standalone national parties; accent variants normalized. Local parties and coalitions remain Other. No alliance votes are attributed to individual member parties. An interval is withheld if either election has no list mapped to an explicit named group. This is aggregate share change, not individual voter switching. Event review: Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete

Current government and control: Unverified. Local government-risk forecast: unassessed.

Polling: no vetted current evidence included for this office.

TSE vote books joined to official elected-member declarations where geographic and total checks reconcile. Substitutes retained separately. Subsequent replacements and current officeholder status require review.

Registry and evidence links: Source 1, Source 2, Source 3

Electoral event evidence

Separate source records can belong to the same election cycle. Recounts, runoffs and void returns do not create additional cycles.

2024-02-04 · ordinary

Coverage: Official final vote book and independently reconciled certified titular roster

Basis: One party/list ballot; syndic and district councillors share the district ballot; seats exclude substitutes

Source note: Seats counted from named titular members, excluding substitutes and vice-executives.

Party or listCandidateVotes or marksVote shareSeats
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA2,32340.43%2
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL99417.30%1
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO82614.38%1
PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICO82014.27%1
LIBERAL PROGRESISTA68211.87%0
NUEVA REPÚBLICA891.55%0
NUEVA GENERACIÓN120.21%0

Result source · PDF page 265 · Seat source

Named elected members and substitutes

Vice-officers and substitutes are listed where declared. They are not added to titular seat totals. Inferred party-code joins are labelled.

NameOfficeParty or listSubstituteEvidence
DIDIER MENDOZA ALVARADOREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
XINIA MARIA MORALES NUÑEZREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
ISMAEL TORRES ESPINOZAREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ANA FABIOLA ARAYA MEJIASREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASREPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANONoDeclaration
ARNOLDO JIMENEZ MORAREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASPROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICONoDeclaration
CARLOS DIONISIO VEGA AJOYREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
YENDRI TATIANA SANDOVAL ARIASREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
YEUDY ARIAS VIQUEZREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
KRISTEL JULYANA LORIA VILLALOBOSREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESREPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOYesDeclaration
LUIS DENIS CASTRO ALVAREZREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESPROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICOYesDeclaration
2020-02-02 · ordinary

Coverage: Official final vote book and independently reconciled certified titular roster

Basis: One party/list ballot; syndic and district councillors share the district ballot; seats exclude substitutes

Source note: Seats counted from named titular members, excluding substitutes and vice-executives.

Party or listCandidateVotes or marksVote shareSeats
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL2,86153.39%3
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO1,50228.03%2
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL4728.81%0
NUEVA REPUBLICA2835.28%0
UNIDOS PODEMOS1853.45%0
INTEGRACIÓN NACIONAL561.04%0

Result source · Sheet 3.3 · Seat source

Named elected members and substitutes

Vice-officers and substitutes are listed where declared. They are not added to titular seat totals. Inferred party-code joins are labelled.

NameOfficeParty or listSubstituteEvidence
ARELY DEL CARMEN REYES VIGILREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ALBAN CHAVARRIA MOLINAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
NORMA ELENA GOMEZ SACIDAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
SOCORRO ANGULO MENDEZREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANONoDeclaration
FRANCINE ESPINOZA SALGUERAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANONoDeclaration
VANESSA MEJIAS ARIASREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
VICTOR JULIO PICADO RODRIGUEZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
ANDREA MARCELA SOLANO ULATEREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
SAMARIA CRUZ ESQUIVELREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESREPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOYesDeclaration
GERARDO ALEXANDER VILLALOBOS LEITONREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESREPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOYesDeclaration
2016-02-07 · ordinary

Coverage: Official final vote book and independently reconciled certified titular roster

Basis: One party/list ballot; syndic and district councillors share the district ballot; seats exclude substitutes

Source note: Seats counted from named titular members, excluding substitutes and vice-executives.

Party or listCandidateVotes or marksVote shareSeats
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL1,33828.99%2
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO92219.98%1
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA86818.81%1
NUEVA GENERACIÓN62813.61%1
COALICIÓN UNIDOS POR GUATUSO4509.75%0
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO4098.86%0

Result source · Sheet 3.3 · Seat source

Named elected members and substitutes

Vice-officers and substitutes are listed where declared. They are not added to titular seat totals. Inferred party-code joins are labelled.

NameOfficeParty or listSubstituteEvidence
FULVIO VARGAS ZUÑIGAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MAUREEN CASTRO RIOSREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
YADIRA MORA MORAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANONoDeclaration
JACINTO ADOLFO VARGAS MIRANDAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
MARIO ERNESTO HERRA ULATEREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)NUEVA GENERACIÓNNoDeclaration
HAZEL ANDREA VALVERDE CAMPOSREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
VICTOR JULIO PICADO RODRIGUEZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
CARLOS LUIS GUTIERREZ JIMENEZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESREPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOYesDeclaration
ANA PATRICIA RODRIGUEZ SOTOREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
FELIX BOLAÑOS PORRASREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESNUEVA GENERACIÓNYesDeclaration

Snapshot 13 September 2026. Fixed election window 8 September 2026 to 8 March 2028. Record CR-C-ALAJUELA-GUATUSO.