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FLORES — Municipal council

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

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

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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
FLORES / HEREDIA
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-100244db41989555b1343925
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

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL34.6%
  • ALMA FLOREÑA29.9%
  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN15.9%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA13.7%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA3.1%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO2.8%
Results for event-c1d268b3b0656454cbabfeec
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20242,22434.6%2Recorded
ALMA FLOREÑAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241,92729.9%1Recorded
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241,02515.9%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202487913.7%1Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241973.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241832.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL37.2%
  • COALICIÓN UNIDAD POR FLORES30.4%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO25.1%
  • NUEVA REPUBLICA4.0%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL2.3%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS1.0%
Results for event-7785bea1cb30b1b01fb8e250
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202,46037.2%2Recorded
COALICIÓN UNIDAD POR FLOREScosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202,00830.4%2Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201,66025.1%1Recorded
NUEVA REPUBLICAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202654%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201542.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020651%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL26.5%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA22.8%
  • TODO POR FLORES20.2%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA17.7%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO7.4%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO3.5%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL2.0%
Results for event-ce22f60ba06d81ab20946d2b
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161,84026.5%2Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161,58522.8%1Recorded
TODO POR FLOREScosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161,40420.2%1Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161,23317.7%1Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20165157.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20162413.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161382%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

74.070–100 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=4.615384615384613, oldest_gap=3.665899942495688, previous_gap=6.836055656382332

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

31.03percentage 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=[[34.56099456099456,13.65967365967366,0,2.843822843822844,0,3.0613830613830615,0,0,0,0,0,0,45.87412587412587],[37.20508166969147,0,0,0,2.3290986085904417,4.007864488808227,0,0,0,25.105868118572293,0,0,31.352087114337568],[26.45198389879241,22.78608395629672,17.72570442783209,7.403680276020702,1.9838987924094307,0,0,0,0,3.464634847613571,0,0,20.18401380103508]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

47.92percentage 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: 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=[[34.56099456099456,13.65967365967366,0,2.843822843822844,0,3.0613830613830615,0,0,0,0,0,0,45.87412587412587],[37.20508166969147,0,0,0,2.3290986085904417,4.007864488808227,0,0,0,25.105868118572293,0,0,31.352087114337568],[26.45198389879241,22.78608395629672,17.72570442783209,7.403680276020702,1.9838987924094307,0,0,0,0,3.464634847613571,0,0,20.18401380103508]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

39.47percentage 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=[[34.56099456099456,13.65967365967366,0,2.843822843822844,0,3.0613830613830615,0,0,0,0,0,0,45.87412587412587],[37.20508166969147,0,0,0,2.3290986085904417,4.007864488808227,0,0,0,25.105868118572293,0,0,31.352087114337568],[26.45198389879241,22.78608395629672,17.72570442783209,7.403680276020702,1.9838987924094307,0,0,0,0,3.464634847613571,0,0,20.18401380103508]]

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?
ANDRES UGALDE BRENESREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
YORLENE VIQUEZ ESTEVANOVICHREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
LUIS GUILLERMO BARQUERO VIQUEZREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024ALMA FLOREÑAprincipal
MARLEN IVONNE BARRANTES ROJASREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024NUEVA GENERACIÓNprincipal
IVANNIA UGALDE GOMEZREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
MARIO ALBERTO MURILLO CHAVESREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
CARMEN ELENA BARRANTES NUÑEZREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
LUIS ROBERTO HIDALGO VARGASREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024ALMA FLOREÑAsubstitute
ADRIANA RAQUEL ESPINOZA MELENDEZREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024NUEVA GENERACIÓNsubstitute
IRENE MAYELA ALFARO NUÑEZREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
JOSE ANGEL VILLEGAS HIDALGOREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
LUCRECIA CALDERON ANGULOREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARIA DE LOS ANGELES GARCIA VALVERDEREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020COALICIÓN UNIDAD POR FLORESprincipal
MAYNOR RAMIREZ RAMIREZREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020COALICIÓN UNIDAD POR FLORESprincipal
LUIS GUILLERMO BARQUERO VIQUEZREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOprincipal
YORLENE VIQUEZ ESTEVANOVICHREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MARIO ALBERTO MURILLO CHAVESREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MARVIN ORTEGA GONZALEZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020COALICIÓN UNIDAD POR FLORESsubstitute
MARISOL FALLAS MONGEREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020COALICIÓN UNIDAD POR FLORESsubstitute
LIZETH MARIA CAMPOS VENEGASREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOsubstitute
GILBERTO VILLALOBOS SALASREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
YAMILETH VARGAS SEGURAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MAYELA MARITZA GONZALEZ CAMACHOREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
MARIA DE LOS ANGELES GARCIA VALVERDEREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016TODO POR FLORESprincipal
MARIA AUXILIADORA UGALDE ARGUEDASREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
EDER JOSE RAMIREZ SEGURAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
LUCRECIA CALDERON ANGULOREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ANA KAROLINA ROJAS HERNANDEZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
MARCO VINICIO VIQUEZ NUÑEZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016TODO POR FLORESsubstitute
JOSE JOAQUIN BOLAÑOS VIQUEZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAsubstitute

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. “FLORES — Municipal council.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-C-HEREDIA-FLORES. 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.