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TALAMANCA — Municipal council

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Costa Rica · TALAMANCA / LIMÓN · municipal · Municipal councilCR-C-LIMON-TALAMANCA

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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
TALAMANCA / LIMÓN
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-9e9e0afb2f63471244b9a8aa
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

  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA43.1%
  • JUSTICIA SOCIAL COSTARRICENSE30.0%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL13.5%
  • LIBERAL PROGRESISTA6.0%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA3.1%
  • AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA1.4%
  • PUEBLO SOBERANO1.3%
  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN1.2%
  • NUESTRO PUEBLO0.5%
Results for event-ce2c7e1428160b90a51f77fa
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20244,76943.1%2Recorded
JUSTICIA SOCIAL COSTARRICENSEcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20243,31730%2Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241,48813.5%1Recorded
LIBERAL PROGRESISTAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20246586%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20243423.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241561.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PUEBLO SOBERANOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241471.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241301.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUESTRO PUEBLOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024510.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA41.0%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL17.9%
  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN12.6%
  • DESARROLLO TALAMANQUEÑO6.8%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO6.1%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL5.0%
  • NUEVA REPUBLICA3.5%
  • AUTÉNTICO LIMONENSE3.3%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO2.4%
  • JUSTICIA SOCIAL COSTARRICENSE0.8%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA0.4%
  • IZQUIERDA COSTARRICENSE0.2%
Results for event-b638724c75992d36eb449ddd
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20204,73041%3Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202,06217.9%1Recorded
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201,45212.6%1Recorded
DESARROLLO TALAMANQUEÑOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20207846.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20207046.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20205725%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPUBLICAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20204003.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
AUTÉNTICO LIMONENSEcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20203803.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202822.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
JUSTICIA SOCIAL COSTARRICENSEcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020880.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020490.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
IZQUIERDA COSTARRICENSEcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020200.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA32.9%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL25.7%
  • MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO20.1%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO8.0%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO7.7%
  • RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSE3.2%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA2.5%
Results for event-dffc07d8bcb414530ca4b229
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20162,89932.9%2Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20162,25825.7%2Recorded
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161,76820.1%1Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20167008%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20166817.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSEcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20162793.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20162162.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

22.240–100 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=13.13076505697233, oldest_gap=7.283263265538007, previous_gap=23.15369261477046

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

18.76percentage 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=[[13.456321215409659,43.12714776632303,0,0,0,3.0927835051546393,0,0,0,0,5.950443118104539,0,34.37330439500814],[17.894645491625443,41.0483381063959,0.4252364835546299,2.4472793543348086,4.963985073331598,3.4713182330990193,0,0,0,6.109520090254274,0,0,23.639677167404322],[25.656175434609704,32.93943870014771,2.4542665606181115,7.737757073059879,0,0,20.088626292466767,0,0,7.953641631632769,0,0,3.1700943074650607]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

37.01percentage 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=[[13.456321215409659,43.12714776632303,0,0,0,3.0927835051546393,0,0,0,0,5.950443118104539,0,34.37330439500814],[17.894645491625443,41.0483381063959,0.4252364835546299,2.4472793543348086,4.963985073331598,3.4713182330990193,0,0,0,6.109520090254274,0,0,23.639677167404322],[25.656175434609704,32.93943870014771,2.4542665606181115,7.737757073059879,0,0,20.088626292466767,0,0,7.953641631632769,0,0,3.1700943074650607]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

27.89percentage 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=[[13.456321215409659,43.12714776632303,0,0,0,3.0927835051546393,0,0,0,0,5.950443118104539,0,34.37330439500814],[17.894645491625443,41.0483381063959,0.4252364835546299,2.4472793543348086,4.963985073331598,3.4713182330990193,0,0,0,6.109520090254274,0,0,23.639677167404322],[25.656175434609704,32.93943870014771,2.4542665606181115,7.737757073059879,0,0,20.088626292466767,0,0,7.953641631632769,0,0,3.1700943074650607]]

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?
YAHAIRA MORA BLANCOREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
FREDDY ENRIQUE SOTO ALVAREZREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
MARITZA PATRICIA MEDRANO GOMEZREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024JUSTICIA SOCIAL COSTARRICENSEprincipal
NEWTON GRANT ARANAREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024JUSTICIA SOCIAL COSTARRICENSEprincipal
JULIO MOLINA MASISREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ENID VILLANUEVA VARGASREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
DENIS VILLALOBOS ARCEREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
LILIANA MAYORGA ESCALANTEREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024JUSTICIA SOCIAL COSTARRICENSEsubstitute
JAVIER RODRIGUEZ ROMEROREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024JUSTICIA SOCIAL COSTARRICENSEsubstitute
DONALD RAYMOND WILLIAMS SHIRLEYREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
YAHAIRA MORA BLANCOREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
FREDDY ENRIQUE SOTO ALVAREZREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
ENID VILLANUEVA VARGASREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
ADENIL GUILLERMO PERALTA CRUZREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
JORGE HUMBERTO MOLINA POLANCOREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020NUEVA GENERACIÓNprincipal
ARCELIO GARCIA MORALESREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
GINETTE MARIA JARQUIN CASANOVAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
JULIO RIVAS SELLESREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
PATRICIA EUGENIA CHAMORRO SALDAÑAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ILEANA GABRIELA MATARRITA CORDOBAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020NUEVA GENERACIÓNsubstitute
DINORAH ROMERO MORALESREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
ARCELIO GARCIA MORALESREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
PABLO GUERRA MIRANDAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
CANDIDA NATALIA CUBILLO GONZALEZREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
PABLO ERNESTO BUSTAMANTE CERDASREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIOprincipal
HORACIO GERARDO GAMBOA HERRERAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
HELEN SIMONS WILSONREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
LUIS ENRIQUE BERMUDEZ BERMUDEZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
SANDRA YENORY VARGAS BADILLAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
PABLO MENA RODRIGUEZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIOsubstitute

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. “TALAMANCA — Municipal council.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-C-LIMON-TALAMANCA. Sources: costa-rica--url-ae6cfb21525f974d8912a00e, costa-rica--url-9b0bf8940eb485b811da317e, costa-rica--url-f8a1e09c9e89a7e5e9c55114, costa-rica--Sc1df243471, costa-rica--S19eaca6404, costa-rica--Sfa91292290, costa-rica--S124a534fa9, costa-rica--S79669f3e5d, costa-rica--S6477d8bdc2.