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SANTO DOMINGO — Municipal council

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Costa Rica · SANTO DOMINGO / HEREDIA · municipal · Municipal councilCR-C-HEREDIA-SANTO-DOMINGO

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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
SANTO DOMINGO / HEREDIA
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-98515bfc430b7b16e4271223
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 NACIONAL25.2%
  • MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGO21.4%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA13.4%
  • PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICO9.4%
  • UNIÓN DOMINGUEÑA8.6%
  • LIBERAL PROGRESISTA7.2%
  • JUSTICIA SOCIAL COSTARRICENSE6.9%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA3.0%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS3.0%
  • PUEBLO SOBERANO2.0%
Results for event-34fd6bfb074360fd901e1648
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20242,83025.2%2Recorded
MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20242,40421.4%2Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241,50313.4%1Recorded
PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241,0529.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIÓN DOMINGUEÑAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20249668.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
LIBERAL PROGRESISTAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20248057.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
JUSTICIA SOCIAL COSTARRICENSEcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20247816.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20243423%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20243413%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PUEBLO SOBERANOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20242272%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGO33.3%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL26.0%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA14.6%
  • UNIÓN DOMINGUEÑA10.6%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA5.4%
  • NUEVA REPUBLICA4.4%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS3.2%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL2.6%
Results for event-0b8ad595f53bdc7755838617
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20204,07733.3%2Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20203,18226%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201,78314.6%1Recorded
UNIÓN DOMINGUEÑAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201,29610.6%1Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20206565.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPUBLICAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20205394.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20203883.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20203162.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL29.9%
  • MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGO25.4%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA19.8%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA13.7%
  • MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO5.6%
  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN3.8%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO1.9%
Results for event-1880a7bcbd2ce9a748dae91b
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20163,53729.9%2Recorded
MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20163,00025.4%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20162,34919.8%1Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161,61913.7%1Recorded
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20166665.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20164443.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20162191.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

75.40–100 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=3.786330103990757, oldest_gap=4.537772519858038, previous_gap=7.313884121925309

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

16.51percentage 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=[[25.15331970491512,13.358812549995555,0,0,0,3.0397298017953958,0,0,0,0,7.154919562705537,9.350279975113324,41.94293840547506],[26.00310533627523,14.570564680885838,5.360791043556428,0,2.58233227098145,4.404674348287979,0,0,0,0,0,0,47.07853232001307],[29.888456988338685,19.849585938820347,13.68091938482339,0,0,0,5.627851952002704,0,0,1.8505999661990873,0,0,29.102585769815782]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

24.96percentage 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=[[25.15331970491512,13.358812549995555,0,0,0,3.0397298017953958,0,0,0,0,7.154919562705537,9.350279975113324,41.94293840547506],[26.00310533627523,14.570564680885838,5.360791043556428,0,2.58233227098145,4.404674348287979,0,0,0,0,0,0,47.07853232001307],[29.888456988338685,19.849585938820347,13.68091938482339,0,0,0,5.627851952002704,0,0,1.8505999661990873,0,0,29.102585769815782]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

20.73percentage 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=[[25.15331970491512,13.358812549995555,0,0,0,3.0397298017953958,0,0,0,0,7.154919562705537,9.350279975113324,41.94293840547506],[26.00310533627523,14.570564680885838,5.360791043556428,0,2.58233227098145,4.404674348287979,0,0,0,0,0,0,47.07853232001307],[29.888456988338685,19.849585938820347,13.68091938482339,0,0,0,5.627851952002704,0,0,1.8505999661990873,0,0,29.102585769815782]]

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?
YENORY RAMOS SALAZARREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
JOHNNY ALBERTO MOYA UMAÑAREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARIA ELENA ORDOÑEZ VILLALOBOSREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGOprincipal
GERARDO JESUS ORTEGA FONSECAREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGOprincipal
ANDRES ALVARADO RODRIGUEZREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
SEIDY HERNANDEZ ESQUIVELREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
LUIS RICARDO LEON EDUARTEREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
SANDRA MARIA MORA QUIROSREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGOsubstitute
LISANDRO GONZALEZ ARCEREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGOsubstitute
ABEL GERARDO CHACON ZAMORAREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
GILBERT EDUARDO RODRIGUEZ ALVARADOREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGOprincipal
MARIA ELENA ORDOÑEZ VILLALOBOSREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGOprincipal
JOSE PABLO QUIROS VILLALOBOSREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARIA ISABEL LEON ARIASREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
ISAAC SALVADOR RAMIREZ ZAMORAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIÓN DOMINGUEÑAprincipal
DANIELA SOLIS RODRIGUEZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGOsubstitute
PEDRO MELENDEZ CASTROREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGOsubstitute
MARCELA BENAVIDES BOLAÑOSREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
FRANKLIN GARRO RAMIREZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
MARIA DE LOS ANGELES ALVAREZ AGUILARREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020UNIÓN DOMINGUEÑAsubstitute
ERIKA LIZETTE LINARES OROZCOREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
LUIS FERNANDO SALAS CALVOREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ANA LORENA ULATE RODRIGUEZREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGOprincipal
TOMAS AZOFEIFA VILLALOBOSREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
MARTA MARIA ELIZONDO VARGASREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
JOANNY SANTIAGO ALVARADO BOLAÑOSREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
SHIRLEY MARIA PALMA ULATEREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ROBERTO FRANCISCO FUSTER VASQUEZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGOsubstitute
MIRYAM EUGENIA JIMENEZ BOLAÑOSREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
FERNANDO BOLAÑOS BOLAÑOSREGIDORES(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. “SANTO DOMINGO — Municipal council.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-C-HEREDIA-SANTO-DOMINGO. 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.