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ESPARZA — Municipal council

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Costa Rica · ESPARZA / PUNTARENAS · municipal · Municipal councilCR-C-PUNTARENAS-ESPARZA

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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
ESPARZA / PUNTARENAS
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-860b7350e70c94a6e7dcc110
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 CRISTIANA40.4%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL27.8%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA16.9%
  • LIBERAL PROGRESISTA7.9%
  • AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA4.1%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS3.0%
Results for event-3794418d037e6b412669c31d
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20244,34740.4%2Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20242,99127.8%2Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241,81716.9%1Recorded
LIBERAL PROGRESISTAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20248527.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20244404.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20243253%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL51.0%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO17.1%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA15.7%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS8.0%
  • NUEVA REPUBLICA6.0%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL1.7%
  • ACCESIBILIDAD SIN EXCLUSIÓN0.5%
Results for event-8c9ee544412af34d947a7430
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20205,64351%3Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201,89517.1%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201,73315.7%1Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20208838%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPUBLICAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20206586%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201841.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACCESIBILIDAD SIN EXCLUSIÓNcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020600.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL33.8%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO27.5%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA23.1%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA7.4%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO4.0%
  • MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO3.8%
  • ACCESIBILIDAD SIN EXCLUSIÓN0.4%
Results for event-4b2eb92e0f41421780b4b0e5
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20163,47833.8%2Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20162,83327.5%2Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20162,38223.1%1Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20167587.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20164094%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20163863.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACCESIBILIDAD SIN EXCLUSIÓNcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016450.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

8.250–100 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=12.588191607872261, oldest_gap=6.267612476921581, previous_gap=33.90014471780029

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

43.51percentage 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=[[27.766431489045672,40.35462309691793,0,0,0,16.867805421463054,0,0,0,0,7.909394727070182,0,7.1017452655031565],[51.040159189580315,15.674746743849493,0,0,1.6642547033285093,5.951519536903039,0,0,0.5426917510853835,17.140014471780027,0,0,7.986613603473227],[33.79652123214459,23.1464386357011,7.365659313963658,3.9743465163735303,0,0,3.750850257506559,0,0.43727528908755225,27.52890875522301,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

32.95percentage 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=[[27.766431489045672,40.35462309691793,0,0,0,16.867805421463054,0,0,0,0,7.909394727070182,0,7.1017452655031565],[51.040159189580315,15.674746743849493,0,0,1.6642547033285093,5.951519536903039,0,0,0.5426917510853835,17.140014471780027,0,0,7.986613603473227],[33.79652123214459,23.1464386357011,7.365659313963658,3.9743465163735303,0,0,3.750850257506559,0,0.43727528908755225,27.52890875522301,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

38.23percentage 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=[[27.766431489045672,40.35462309691793,0,0,0,16.867805421463054,0,0,0,0,7.909394727070182,0,7.1017452655031565],[51.040159189580315,15.674746743849493,0,0,1.6642547033285093,5.951519536903039,0,0,0.5426917510853835,17.140014471780027,0,0,7.986613603473227],[33.79652123214459,23.1464386357011,7.365659313963658,3.9743465163735303,0,0,3.750850257506559,0,0.43727528908755225,27.52890875522301,0,0,0]]

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?
CHRISTIAN ALONSO TERCERO CARVAJALREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
FLOR MARIA CUBERO MARTINEZREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
FERNANDO ANTONIO VILLALOBOS CHACONREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
KAROL ARROYO VASQUEZREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
JUAN CARLOS ZELEDON MAFFIOREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024NUEVA REPÚBLICAprincipal
RONALD GERARDO ROBLES ARLEYREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
ERIKA YORLENY GARCIA PORRASREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
LUIS DIEGO ESTRADA JIMENEZREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ILIANETTE PICADO SANCHEZREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
LUIS FERNANDO GONZALEZ DIAZREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024NUEVA REPÚBLICAsubstitute
FERNANDO ANTONIO VILLALOBOS CHACONREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
KAROL ARROYO VASQUEZREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
KEVIN ANTONIO CAMPOS ANGULOREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ANA FIORELLA RAMIREZ SILVAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOprincipal
RONALD GERARDO ROBLES ARLEYREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
CANDY DAHIANA CHAVARRIA CORDEROREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
PABLO JOSUE ACOSTA BONILLAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
YULIANA DE LOS ANGELES VARGAS BARRANTESREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
YAMIL VINICIO DOBLES DIAZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOsubstitute
DOUGLAS ARCE SOLISREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
ANA VIRGINIA SANDOVAL NUÑEZREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
HUGO ALEJANDRO UGALDE CUBEROREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
WAGNER ACEVEDO PICADOREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOprincipal
KAROL JOHANNA JIMENEZ BARQUEROREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOprincipal
ELIAN PORTUGUEZ CARMONAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
PLACIDO MADRIGAL ARAYAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
CANDY DAHIANA CHAVARRIA CORDEROREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
GABRIEL RICARDO ROJAS ARGUEDASREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOsubstitute
AURORA CARVAJAL ANGULOREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOsubstitute
ANA ISABEL MORA UGALDEREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute

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. “ESPARZA — Municipal council.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-C-PUNTARENAS-ESPARZA. Sources: costa-rica--url-ae6cfb21525f974d8912a00e, costa-rica--url-9b0bf8940eb485b811da317e, costa-rica--url-f8a1e09c9e89a7e5e9c55114, costa-rica--Sc1df243471, costa-rica--S66a5b979c3, costa-rica--Sfa91292290, costa-rica--S151bb3bdbd, costa-rica--S79669f3e5d, costa-rica--Sc1484e30b5.