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SAN PABLO — Municipal council

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SAN PABLO — Municipal council
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Costa Rica · HEREDIA

SAN PABLO — 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 28.3 points; earlier interval 19.7 points; two-interval mean 24.0 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
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA4,71463.71%4
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL1,68922.83%1
FRENTE AMPLIO5347.22%0
NUEVA REPÚBLICA4626.24%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
HEIDY AMELIA LEON CHAVESREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
YOHAN MANUEL GRANDA MONGEREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
ISABEL BENAVIDES MURILLOREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
HENRY GEOVANNI ESPINOZA ESPINOZAREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
ALFREDO LOAIZA MATAREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MARLENI SILES CASTROREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
LUIS GUSTAVO FERNANDEZ SALGADOREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
MAITE MATARRITA ROMANREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
ANDRES GARITA BONILLAREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
RODRIGO HIDALGO OTAROLAREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
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 CRISTIANA3,43942.67%2
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL2,17526.99%1
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA1,22815.24%1
NUEVA REPUBLICA89011.04%1
UNIDOS PODEMOS1902.36%0
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL1371.70%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
YOHAN MANUEL GRANDA MONGEREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
HEIDY AMELIA LEON CHAVESREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
RODRIGO HIDALGO OTAROLAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
YOLANDA TAPIA REYESREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)ACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
MAURICIO MONTERO HERNANDEZREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)NUEVA REPÚBLICANoDeclaration
DANILO VILLALOBOS VINDASREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
HELEN CRISTINA VINDAS VASQUEZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
ERICK SOTO ARRIETAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
SUSAN MARIA LEIVA GONZALEZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration
RODOLFO VINDAS CANTILLANOREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESNUEVA REPÚBLICAYesDeclaration
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
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA3,33243.54%3
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL2,23729.23%2
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL5577.28%0
FRENTE AMPLIO5056.60%0
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA5006.53%0
NUEVA GENERACIÓN3644.76%0
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO901.18%0
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO670.88%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 FERNANDO MENDEZ VINDASREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
DAMARIS GAMBOA HERNANDEZREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
JULIO CESAR BENAVIDES ESPINOZAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
YOJHAN ESTEBAN CUBERO RAMIREZREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
BETTY CASTILLO ORTIZREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
FRANKLIN CORDERO HERNANDEZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
MARIA DE LOS ANGELES ARTAVIA ZELEDONREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
JOSE ALBERTO VINDAS VASQUEZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
OMAR SEQUEIRA SEQUEIRAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MARIA JULIA MURILLO VILLEGASREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration

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