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POÁS — Municipal council
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POÁS — 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: 41.0/100. 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 12.4 points; earlier interval 32.3 points; two-interval mean 22.3 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 CRISTIANA3,61341.80%3
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL2,49128.82%2
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO6307.29%0
PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICO6157.12%0
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA5236.05%0
NUEVA REPÚBLICA4785.53%0
UNIDOS PODEMOS2663.08%0
SOMOS270.31%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
YENSY CORELLA MURILLOREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
ROY ISIDRO CHAVES GOMEZREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
VIVIANA ELIZABETH VIQUEZ QUESADAREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
TATIANA BOLAÑOS UGALDEREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
LUIS FERNANDO TREJOS MADRIGALREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
JOHANNA PATRICIA OREAMUNO ROJASREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
JOSE HERIBERTO SALAZAR AGUEROREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
ANDREA RODRIGUEZ BALLESTEROREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
KATIA VILLALOBOS SOLISREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MARCO VINICIO VALVERDE SOLISREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
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
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA3,99741.46%2
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL2,86929.76%2
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO1,56716.25%1
UNIDOS PODEMOS5175.36%0
NUEVA REPUBLICA4494.66%0
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL2422.51%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
MARVIN ROJAS CAMPOSREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
MARGOT CAMACHO JIMENEZREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
MARCO VINICIO VALVERDE SOLISREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
TATIANA BOLAÑOS UGALDEREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
GLORIA ELENA MADRIGAL CASTROREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANONoDeclaration
MARIA GABRIELA CRUZ SOTOREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
CARLOS MARIO BRENES MELENDEZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
KATIA VILLALOBOS SOLISREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
JOSE IGNACIO MURILLO SOTOREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
INGRID GISELLA MURILLO ALFAROREGIDORES(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 NACIONAL2,23025.39%2
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA1,78920.37%1
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA1,54817.62%1
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO1,23814.09%1
RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSE8569.74%0
FRENTE AMPLIO6487.38%0
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL3554.04%0
NUEVA GENERACIÓN1201.37%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
JORGE LUIS ALFARO GOMEZREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MARIA ANA CHAVES MURILLOREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
GERMAN ALONSO HERRERA VARGASREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
MARVIN ROJAS CAMPOSREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)ACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
GLORIA ELENA MADRIGAL CASTROREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANONoDeclaration
ELIETH GONZALEZ MIRANDAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
LUIS GERARDO CASTRO ALFAROREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
KEYLOR GERARDO RODRIGUEZ RODRIGUEZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
DANIELA FERNANDA CAMPOS DURANREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration
CARMEN EUGENIA BARRANTES VARGASREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESREPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOYesDeclaration

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