Costa Rica · GUANACASTE
CAÑAS — 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.
Historical competition
Competitiveness index for a verified actual-event sequence withheld. Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete.
Provisional imported-series CI: 5.0/100. 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 44.0 points; earlier interval 29.7 points; two-interval mean 36.9 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 list | Candidate | Votes or marks | Vote share | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UNIDOS PODEMOS | 2,273 | 34.82% | 2 | |
| LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL | 1,928 | 29.54% | 2 | |
| UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA | 1,409 | 21.59% | 1 | |
| AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA | 513 | 7.86% | 0 | |
| REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO | 175 | 2.68% | 0 | |
| FRENTE AMPLIO | 104 | 1.59% | 0 | |
| PUEBLO SOBERANO | 95 | 1.46% | 0 | |
| UNIÓN GUANACASTECA | 30 | 0.46% | 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.
| Name | Office | Party or list | Substitute | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CRISTIAN PALMA SALGUERO | REGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS | UNIDOS PODEMOS | No | Declaration |
| ELVIA HERRA SIRIAS | REGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS | UNIDOS PODEMOS | No | Declaration |
| ISAIAS GUSTAVO CHAVARRIA ALVAREZ | REGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS | LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL | No | Declaration |
| LIDYA MAYELA MADRIGAL ULATE | REGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS | LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL | No | Declaration |
| CARLOS ALBERTO VEGA NUÑEZ | REGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS | UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA | No | Declaration |
| ELIECER DELGADO SALGUERA | REGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES | UNIDOS PODEMOS | Yes | Declaration |
| KAREN LETICIA RAMIREZ RUIZ | REGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES | UNIDOS PODEMOS | Yes | Declaration |
| JOSE MACARIO MONTES CARRILLO | REGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES | LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL | Yes | Declaration |
| MAUREEN PATRICIA JAEN RECIO | REGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES | LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL | Yes | Declaration |
| HENRY GERARDO CERDAS CERDAS | REGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES | UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA | Yes | Declaration |
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 list | Candidate | Votes or marks | Vote share | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL | 4,102 | 51.57% | 3 | |
| UNIDOS PODEMOS | 1,046 | 13.15% | 1 | |
| RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL | 946 | 11.89% | 1 | |
| UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA | 795 | 9.99% | 0 | |
| ACCIÓN CIUDADANA | 580 | 7.29% | 0 | |
| NUEVA REPUBLICA | 212 | 2.67% | 0 | |
| UNIÓN GUANACASTECA | 139 | 1.75% | 0 | |
| FRENTE AMPLIO | 134 | 1.68% | 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.
| Name | Office | Party or list | Substitute | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JOSE ANGEL ACON WONG | REGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS) | LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL | No | Declaration |
| IRENE MARIA BOLIVAR JIMENEZ | REGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS) | LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL | No | Declaration |
| JOHNNY ALVAREZ GUTIERREZ | REGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS) | LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL | No | Declaration |
| LUIS GUILLERMO LEDEZMA VARGAS | REGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS) | UNIDOS PODEMOS | No | Declaration |
| JORGE MARIO HERRERA VENEGAS | REGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS) | RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL | No | Declaration |
| DIEGO GERARDO PALMA CALVO | REGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES | LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL | Yes | Declaration |
| ANA GABRIELA LIZANO RODRIGUEZ | REGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES | LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL | Yes | Declaration |
| EVELIO GERARDO RAMOS CHACON | REGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES | LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL | Yes | Declaration |
| MAUREEN PATRICIA JAEN RECIO | REGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES | UNIDOS PODEMOS | Yes | Declaration |
| MARIANELA VARGAS RODRIGUEZ | REGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES | RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL | Yes | Declaration |
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 list | Candidate | Votes or marks | Vote share | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL | 4,651 | 67.14% | 4 | |
| UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA | 1,674 | 24.17% | 1 | |
| ACCIÓN CIUDADANA | 502 | 7.25% | 0 | |
| FRENTE AMPLIO | 100 | 1.44% | 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.
| Name | Office | Party or list | Substitute | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JOSE ANGEL ACON WONG | REGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS) | LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL | No | Declaration |
| IRENE MARIA BOLIVAR JIMENEZ | REGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS) | LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL | No | Declaration |
| LUIS ROBERTO CERDAS JIMENEZ | REGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS) | LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL | No | Declaration |
| GRICELDA VARGAS SEGURA | REGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS) | LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL | No | Declaration |
| MANUEL BRICEÑO SABORIO | REGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS) | UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA | No | Declaration |
| ANA MARICEL BRENES QUESADA | REGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES | LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL | Yes | Declaration |
| JUAN GABRIEL PANIAGUA ESPINOZA | REGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES | LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL | Yes | Declaration |
| MILAGRO PEREZ JARQUIN | REGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES | LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL | Yes | Declaration |
| ELIECER DELGADO SALGUERA | REGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES | LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL | Yes | Declaration |
| GERARDO ALVARADO ARCE | REGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES | UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA | Yes | Declaration |
Snapshot 13 September 2026. Fixed election window 8 September 2026 to 8 March 2028. Record CR-C-GUANACASTE-CANAS.