Skip to observatory content

Partial researchResearch snapshot 2026-09-13. Evidence gaps remain; see Coverage for requirements.

Center forDigital DemocracyElection database
Back to the Center

Office briefing

BARVA — Municipal council

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Costa Rica · BARVA / HEREDIA · municipal · Municipal councilCR-C-HEREDIA-BARVA

Read the complete original research briefing

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.

1. What office, where, and when is the next election?

Geography
BARVA / HEREDIA
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-15f7cd2e7389acf3d2d01bd5
Registry qualification
Unknown

2. How certain is that date?

2028-02-06 is expected (not formally called). Day precision. A date without a formal call is not confirmed.

3. Who won earlier selected elections?

2024-02-04

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO47.6%
  • JUSTICIA SOCIAL COSTARRICENSE10.6%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL8.7%
  • LIBERAL PROGRESISTA8.2%
  • PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICO5.7%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS5.3%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO5.1%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA5.0%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA2.5%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA0.7%
  • PUEBLO SOBERANO0.6%
Results for event-7f31f9dd3ff9a562ecfd9972
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20246,20147.6%3Recorded
JUSTICIA SOCIAL COSTARRICENSEcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241,38110.6%2Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241,1348.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
LIBERAL PROGRESISTAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241,0688.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20247465.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20246885.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20246675.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20246515%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20243232.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024950.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PUEBLO SOBERANOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024800.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO21.3%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL17.7%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO16.1%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA10.5%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA8.8%
  • NUEVA REPUBLICA8.6%
  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN8.0%
  • BARVA UNIDA4.0%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS3.2%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL1.9%
Results for event-ce75302c218fdce2a6dd7adc
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202,69221.3%2Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202,24617.7%1Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202,03516.1%1Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201,33510.5%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201,1098.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPUBLICAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201,0848.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201,0178%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
BARVA UNIDAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20205004%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20204013.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202361.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL22.7%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO22.6%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA21.1%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA13.3%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO10.2%
  • BARVA UNIDA6.3%
  • MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO1.8%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL1.1%
  • RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSE1.0%
Results for event-dac66ad7b5dfc230b5fd05b7
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20162,49222.7%1Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20162,48322.6%1Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20162,31721.1%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161,46313.3%1Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161,11910.2%1Recorded
BARVA UNIDAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20166956.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20162031.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161251.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSEcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161051%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

0 (recorded zero)0–100 historical closeness

Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete

Comparison status: Provisional imported-series comparison; actual-event review open

Method ci.weighted-gap.v1. Inputs: latest_gap=36.98020561608102, oldest_gap=0.08180330848936634, previous_gap=3.5242986961675236

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

41.55percentage 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

Comparison status: Latest interval

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PLN","PUSC","PAC","Frente Amplio","PRN","Nueva Republica","PML","PIN","PASE","PRSC","PLP","PPSD","Other"], interval=Latest interval, vectors=[[8.70032223415682,4.994629430719656,2.478134110787172,5.117385299984655,0,0.7288629737609329,0,0,0,47.575571582016266,8.193954273438699,5.723492404480589,16.48764769065521],[17.74792572105887,8.763334650335835,10.549190043461083,16.08060055314105,1.8648755432635322,8.565784274990122,0,0,0,21.272224417226393,0,0,15.156064796523115],[22.650427195055446,13.297582257771314,21.059807307762224,22.56862388656608,1.1361570623522996,0,1.8451190692601345,0,0,10.170878022177785,0,0,7.271405199054717]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

28.28percentage 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

Comparison status: Previous interval

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PLN","PUSC","PAC","Frente Amplio","PRN","Nueva Republica","PML","PIN","PASE","PRSC","PLP","PPSD","Other"], interval=Previous interval, vectors=[[8.70032223415682,4.994629430719656,2.478134110787172,5.117385299984655,0,0.7288629737609329,0,0,0,47.575571582016266,8.193954273438699,5.723492404480589,16.48764769065521],[17.74792572105887,8.763334650335835,10.549190043461083,16.08060055314105,1.8648755432635322,8.565784274990122,0,0,0,21.272224417226393,0,0,15.156064796523115],[22.650427195055446,13.297582257771314,21.059807307762224,22.56862388656608,1.1361570623522996,0,1.8451190692601345,0,0,10.170878022177785,0,0,7.271405199054717]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

34.92percentage 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

Comparison status: Both intervals mean

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PLN","PUSC","PAC","Frente Amplio","PRN","Nueva Republica","PML","PIN","PASE","PRSC","PLP","PPSD","Other"], interval=Both intervals mean, vectors=[[8.70032223415682,4.994629430719656,2.478134110787172,5.117385299984655,0,0.7288629737609329,0,0,0,47.575571582016266,8.193954273438699,5.723492404480589,16.48764769065521],[17.74792572105887,8.763334650335835,10.549190043461083,16.08060055314105,1.8648755432635322,8.565784274990122,0,0,0,21.272224417226393,0,0,15.156064796523115],[22.650427195055446,13.297582257771314,21.059807307762224,22.56862388656608,1.1361570623522996,0,1.8451190692601345,0,0,10.170878022177785,0,0,7.271405199054717]]

Source-reported control: Unverified. Current tenure requires separate dated evidence.

5. Officeholder evidence

Dated roster observations are not automatically current tenure. The source current-office flag means this office is tracked now, not that the last winner still holds it.

Officeholder observations
PersonRoleAs ofAffiliationPrincipal?
LILLIANA HERNANDEZ CASTROREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOprincipal
MARVIN MORA RIOSREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOprincipal
MONICA REBECA HERNANDEZ SEGURAREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOprincipal
EDUARDO ENRIQUE ZAMORA MONTEROREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024JUSTICIA SOCIAL COSTARRICENSEprincipal
MARLENE MURILLO SANCHEZREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024JUSTICIA SOCIAL COSTARRICENSEprincipal
MARIA DE LOS ANGELES OROZCO CHAVARRIAREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOsubstitute
GABRIEL CHAVES RODRIGUEZREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOsubstitute
HILDA CAMACHO VEGAREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOsubstitute
FRANCISCO VIQUEZ GUTIERREZREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024JUSTICIA SOCIAL COSTARRICENSEsubstitute
LUCIA RAMIREZ RUIZREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024JUSTICIA SOCIAL COSTARRICENSEsubstitute
MARVIN MORA RIOSREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOprincipal
MONICA REBECA HERNANDEZ SEGURAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOprincipal
MARIA ISABEL MONTERO SEGURAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
HEIDY MURILLO CALVOREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020FRENTE AMPLIOprincipal
INGRID MARIA RODRIGUEZ JIMENEZREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
LILLIANA HERNANDEZ CASTROREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOsubstitute
RANDALL CHAVARRIA OVIEDOREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOsubstitute
JOSE PABLO CERDAS MORAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
VICTOR HUGO CUBERO MORALESREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020FRENTE AMPLIOsubstitute
ANDRES ALBERTO ARGUEDAS LEONREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020ACCIÓN CIUDADANAsubstitute
JOSE MARIA RAMOS BENAVIDESREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
EDUARDO ENRIQUE ZAMORA MONTEROREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016FRENTE AMPLIOprincipal
ALLAN MONTERO VIZCAINOREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
DAMARIS ZARATE MURILLOREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
MIRIAM PATRICIA ORTEGA CERDASREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOprincipal
MEDELYN VANESSA BLANCO RAMIREZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
FRANCISCO ESTEBAN HERRERA MONTEROREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016FRENTE AMPLIOsubstitute
ANA LIZETT ZARATE BOGANTESREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAsubstitute
ARNOLDO NUÑEZ SANCHEZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
JUAN LUIS ALVAREZ CALDERONREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOsubstitute

6. Polling context

No local poll supplied.

7. Unresolved issues and sources

  • other · open

    Published province heading correction: {"issue": "Published province heading correction", "year": 2020, "area": "Heredia", "source_id": "S41377daad8", "resolution": "The amendment corrects CARTAGO to HEREDIA in the second table heading. It changes no votes, winners or seats; the original declaration is joined to Heredia."}

Sources

Cite this record

Center for Digital Democracy. “BARVA — Municipal council.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-C-HEREDIA-BARVA. Sources: costa-rica--url-ae6cfb21525f974d8912a00e, costa-rica--url-9b0bf8940eb485b811da317e, costa-rica--url-f8a1e09c9e89a7e5e9c55114, costa-rica--Sc1df243471, costa-rica--Sdbd8d963ea, costa-rica--Sfa91292290, costa-rica--S2a3f864318, costa-rica--S79669f3e5d, costa-rica--Sf5d1ba0ef9.