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BARVA — Municipal council
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BARVA — 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 41.6 points; earlier interval 28.3 points; two-interval mean 34.9 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
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO6,20147.58%3
JUSTICIA SOCIAL COSTARRICENSE1,38110.60%2
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL1,1348.70%0
LIBERAL PROGRESISTA1,0688.19%0
PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICO7465.72%0
UNIDOS PODEMOS6885.28%0
FRENTE AMPLIO6675.12%0
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA6514.99%0
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA3232.48%0
NUEVA REPÚBLICA950.73%0
PUEBLO SOBERANO800.61%0

Result source · PDF page 267 · 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
LILLIANA HERNANDEZ CASTROREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASREPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANONoDeclaration
MARVIN MORA RIOSREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASREPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANONoDeclaration
MONICA REBECA HERNANDEZ SEGURAREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASREPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANONoDeclaration
EDUARDO ENRIQUE ZAMORA MONTEROREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASJUSTICIA SOCIAL COSTARRICENSENoDeclaration
MARLENE MURILLO SANCHEZREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASJUSTICIA SOCIAL COSTARRICENSENoDeclaration
MARIA DE LOS ANGELES OROZCO CHAVARRIAREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESREPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOYesDeclaration
GABRIEL CHAVES RODRIGUEZREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESREPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOYesDeclaration
HILDA CAMACHO VEGAREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESREPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOYesDeclaration
FRANCISCO VIQUEZ GUTIERREZREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESJUSTICIA SOCIAL COSTARRICENSEYesDeclaration
LUCIA RAMIREZ RUIZREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESJUSTICIA SOCIAL COSTARRICENSEYesDeclaration
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
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO2,69221.27%2
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL2,24617.75%1
FRENTE AMPLIO2,03516.08%1
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA1,33510.55%1
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA1,1098.76%0
NUEVA REPUBLICA1,0848.57%0
NUEVA GENERACIÓN1,0178.04%0
BARVA UNIDA5003.95%0
UNIDOS PODEMOS4013.17%0
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL2361.86%0

Result source · Sheet 3.5 · 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 MORA RIOSREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANONoDeclaration
MONICA REBECA HERNANDEZ SEGURAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANONoDeclaration
MARIA ISABEL MONTERO SEGURAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
HEIDY MURILLO CALVOREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)FRENTE AMPLIONoDeclaration
INGRID MARIA RODRIGUEZ JIMENEZREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)ACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
LILLIANA HERNANDEZ CASTROREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESREPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOYesDeclaration
RANDALL CHAVARRIA OVIEDOREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESREPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOYesDeclaration
JOSE PABLO CERDAS MORAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
VICTOR HUGO CUBERO MORALESREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESFRENTE AMPLIOYesDeclaration
ANDRES ALBERTO ARGUEDAS LEONREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration
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 NACIONAL2,49222.65%1
FRENTE AMPLIO2,48322.57%1
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA2,31721.06%1
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA1,46313.30%1
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO1,11910.17%1
BARVA UNIDA6956.32%0
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO2031.85%0
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL1251.14%0
RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSE1050.95%0

Result source · Sheet 3.5 · 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
JOSE MARIA RAMOS BENAVIDESREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
EDUARDO ENRIQUE ZAMORA MONTEROREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)FRENTE AMPLIONoDeclaration
ALLAN MONTERO VIZCAINOREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)ACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
DAMARIS ZARATE MURILLOREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
MIRIAM PATRICIA ORTEGA CERDASREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANONoDeclaration
MEDELYN VANESSA BLANCO RAMIREZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
FRANCISCO ESTEBAN HERRERA MONTEROREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESFRENTE AMPLIOYesDeclaration
ANA LIZETT ZARATE BOGANTESREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration
ARNOLDO NUÑEZ SANCHEZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
JUAN LUIS ALVAREZ CALDERONREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESREPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOYesDeclaration

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