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BAGACES — Municipal council

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BAGACES — Municipal council
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BAGACES — 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: 71.3/100. 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 55.0 points; earlier interval 40.8 points; two-interval mean 47.9 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
LIBERAL PROGRESISTA1,52030.88%2
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL1,07621.86%1
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA91618.61%1
UNIÓN GUANACASTECA85917.45%1
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA3537.17%0
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO1282.60%0
PUEBLO SOBERANO711.44%0

Result source · PDF page 268 · 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
ANGEL ORLANDO VILLEGAS MENDOZAREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASLIBERAL PROGRESISTANoDeclaration
YOJHANNA CHAVES ALVARADOREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASLIBERAL PROGRESISTANoDeclaration
JOSE PABLO ROSALES SANDOVALREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ALEXIS ANTONIO MIRANDA BENITEZREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
ANDREA ALVARADO DIAZREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASUNIÓN GUANACASTECANoDeclaration
MANUEL ISAIAS MURILLO GUZMANREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESLIBERAL PROGRESISTAYesDeclaration
HEIDY ORDOÑEZ JIMENEZREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESLIBERAL PROGRESISTAYesDeclaration
MARCO HERMOGENES PRADO MARENCOREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
CARLOS MARCIANO POTOY BERMUDEZREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
RAQUEL MORALES PORRASREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESUNIÓN GUANACASTECAYesDeclaration
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 CRISTIANA1,35923.57%2
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA1,31622.82%1
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL1,02517.78%1
INTEGRACIÓN NACIONAL77513.44%1
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL4277.41%0
UNIDOS PODEMOS4237.34%0
NUEVA REPUBLICA3666.35%0
UNIÓN GUANACASTECA751.30%0

Result source · Sheet 3.6 · 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
GISELLE DE JESUS CHAVARRIA CRUZREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
JUAN JOSE NUÑEZ CHAVERRIREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
MAIKEL VARGAS ULATEREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)ACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
HANNIA DE LOS ANGELES MOLINA CHEVEZREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
JOSE ALFREDO JIMENEZ SANCHEZREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
AUXY MOISES SIBAJA PEREZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
ESTEFANIA JIMENEZ OCAMPOREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
MARIA ESTER CARRANZA GUTIERREZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration
LUIS ENOC BARRANTES CUBEROREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
HEIDY ORDOÑEZ JIMENEZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESINTEGRACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
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 NACIONAL1,40429.42%2
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA1,35528.39%2
NUEVA GENERACIÓN80216.80%1
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA4769.97%0
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO4709.85%0
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO2665.57%0

Result source · Sheet 3.6 · 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
OLGA CHAVES VARGASREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
JOSE ALFREDO JIMENEZ SANCHEZREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
CARLA FIORELLA VINCENZI ZUÑIGAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)ACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
MILTON ANTONIO LEDEZMA ROJASREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)ACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
EDGARDO ALFREDO ARAGON SOLERAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)NUEVA GENERACIÓNNoDeclaration
LUIS ENOC BARRANTES CUBEROREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MAYRA MURILLO QUESADAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
GREIVIN GERARDO ESQUIVEL LORIAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration
MARIA CRISTINA SOLORZANO RODRIGUEZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration
NATALIA SALAZAR ALVARADOREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESNUEVA GENERACIÓNYesDeclaration

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