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MATINA — Municipal council
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MATINA — 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 41.5 points; earlier interval 26.9 points; two-interval mean 34.2 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 CRISTIANA6,61071.80%4
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL1,50216.32%1
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA4194.55%0
NUEVA REPÚBLICA2863.11%0
UNIDOS PODEMOS1992.16%0
NUESTRO PUEBLO1211.31%0
PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICO690.75%0

Result source · PDF page 270 · 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
VERONICA MAYELA UGALDE TORRESREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
EVER CORTES CHAVESREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
YARITZA ISABEL REID UBAREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
KEVIN YASDANI CENTENO VILLAFUERTEREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
KIMBERLY TATIANA GALEANO ANGULOREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
RAQUEL NORORIS ORTEGAREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
RONALD ROBERTO CAMERON CLEYTONREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
VIVIANA LEANDRO QUIROSREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
LEONEL GARCIA SEGURAREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
KERBELIN KARLINA RUSSELL ALFAROREGIDURÍAS 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 CRISTIANA3,17731.03%2
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL2,89728.29%2
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL1,16311.36%1
UNIDOS PODEMOS6496.34%0
ACCESIBILIDAD SIN EXCLUSIÓN6456.30%0
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO6015.87%0
NUEVA REPUBLICA4254.15%0
AUTÉNTICO LIMONENSE3433.35%0
JUSTICIA SOCIAL COSTARRICENSE1601.56%0
NUEVA GENERACIÓN1581.54%0
IZQUIERDA COSTARRICENSE210.21%0

Result source · Sheet 3.8 · 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
ALFREDO WHEATHEY BURTONREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
MELBA BARRANTES BERMUDEZREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
BRYAN DANILO NAVARRO HERNANDEZREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
VERONICA MAYELA UGALDE TORRESREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
EVER CORTES CHAVESREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MERCEDES VILLAFUERTE CASTAÑEDAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
ARNOLDO LOAIZA QUESADAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
YENDRY GABRIELA GODOY MARTINEZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MARCO TULIO ULATE HERRERAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
ANDREA GABRIELA CHACON BONILLAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESRESTAURACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
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 NACIONAL2,95929.10%2
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA2,26122.24%1
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO1,73817.09%1
RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSE1,36413.42%1
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA9068.91%0
ACCESIBILIDAD SIN EXCLUSIÓN3743.68%0
FRENTE AMPLIO2842.79%0
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO2332.29%0
RECUPERANDO VALORES480.47%0

Result source · Sheet 3.8 · 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
ROBERTO CAMPBELL ROJASREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
LIDIETTE SOLIS ZAMORAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
JUAN RAFAEL CAMACHO UREÑAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
OSCAR EMILIO BONILLA UMAÑAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANONoDeclaration
WILBER MONGE MARTINEZREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSENoDeclaration
PAULINA FAJARDO ROSALESREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MARIO ANTONIO GUTIERREZ CAMBRONEROREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
ARNOLDO LOAIZA QUESADAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
MERCEDES VILLAFUERTE CASTAÑEDAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESREPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOYesDeclaration
LIDIA JESSICA CHAMORRO HERNANDEZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESRENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSEYesDeclaration

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