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GOLFITO — Municipal council

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

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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
GOLFITO / PUNTARENAS
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-0b21b126085dde080f84c181
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 CRISTIANA40.9%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA26.5%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL16.5%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS6.6%
  • LIBERAL PROGRESISTA5.9%
  • AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA3.4%
Results for event-a3946f1064e51fdd1f4dfba0
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20243,51140.9%2Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20242,27726.5%2Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241,42016.5%1Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20245706.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
LIBERAL PROGRESISTAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20245085.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20242963.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA24.2%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL22.9%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL21.2%
  • NUEVA REPUBLICA11.3%
  • INTEGRACIÓN NACIONAL9.4%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA7.0%
  • ALIANZA DEMÓCRATA CRISTIANA2.4%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS1.6%
Results for event-71d739fa8f92d567aeb4d997
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202,57924.2%2Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202,44122.9%1Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202,26121.2%1Recorded
NUEVA REPUBLICAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201,20811.3%1Recorded
INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201,0059.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20207427%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ALIANZA DEMÓCRATA CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202562.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201731.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL30.0%
  • VIVA PUNTARENAS23.5%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA13.7%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA11.5%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL7.5%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO7.4%
  • RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSE4.1%
  • MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO2.3%
Results for event-e1a691216a92c0e7f7709830
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20162,74730%2Recorded
VIVA PUNTARENAScosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20162,15323.5%1Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161,25813.7%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161,05311.5%1Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20166867.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20166837.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSEcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20163774.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20162132.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

51.680–100 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=14.378932649732, oldest_gap=6.4776444929116686, previous_gap=1.2939521800281284

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

43.92percentage 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=[[16.54625961314379,40.91120950827313,0,0,0,26.53227685854113,0,0,0,0,5.91936611512468,0,10.090887904917269],[21.200187529301452,24.18190342240975,6.957337083919362,0,22.88795124238162,11.326769807782465,0,9.423347398030943,0,0,0,0,4.022503516174402],[29.95637949836423,11.48309705561614,13.71864776444929,7.4482006543075245,7.480916030534351,0,2.322791712104689,0,0,0,0,0,27.589967284623775]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

48.86percentage 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=[[16.54625961314379,40.91120950827313,0,0,0,26.53227685854113,0,0,0,0,5.91936611512468,0,10.090887904917269],[21.200187529301452,24.18190342240975,6.957337083919362,0,22.88795124238162,11.326769807782465,0,9.423347398030943,0,0,0,0,4.022503516174402],[29.95637949836423,11.48309705561614,13.71864776444929,7.4482006543075245,7.480916030534351,0,2.322791712104689,0,0,0,0,0,27.589967284623775]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

46.39percentage 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=[[16.54625961314379,40.91120950827313,0,0,0,26.53227685854113,0,0,0,0,5.91936611512468,0,10.090887904917269],[21.200187529301452,24.18190342240975,6.957337083919362,0,22.88795124238162,11.326769807782465,0,9.423347398030943,0,0,0,0,4.022503516174402],[29.95637949836423,11.48309705561614,13.71864776444929,7.4482006543075245,7.480916030534351,0,2.322791712104689,0,0,0,0,0,27.589967284623775]]

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?
ALFONSO ROJAS LORIAREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
ANA ISABEL ARTAVIA MURILLOREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
ULISES VARGAS BUSTAMANTEREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024NUEVA REPÚBLICAprincipal
XINIA GAMBOA BARRANTESREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024NUEVA REPÚBLICAprincipal
JADE YENET FERRETO ACOSTAREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ERLIS CARRILLO CONCEPCIÓNREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
ANA LUZ MORA VILLALTAREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
RONALD MOYA DIAZREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024NUEVA REPÚBLICAsubstitute
ANNIA MARTINEZ CARRILLOREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024NUEVA REPÚBLICAsubstitute
MARENA LIGIA VALERIO DIAZREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MARIO TELLO GOMEZREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
ALEXA GEOVANNA RODRIGUEZ MARINREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
JERLYN DAINA MONGE NAVARRETEREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
LUIS FERNANDO BUSTOS VILLAFUERTEREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
GUSTAVO ALONSO MAYORGA MAYORGAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020NUEVA REPÚBLICAprincipal
MARJORIE BALTODANO ESPINOZAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
ALCIDES RUEDA ANGULOREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
PAULO MARTIN TREJOS CESPEDESREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
JEANNETTE MARIA GONZALEZ GONZALEZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
GERARDINA LIZBETH MENDEZ CESPEDESREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020NUEVA REPÚBLICAsubstitute
ALBERTO LEOPOLDO DIAZ CHAVARRIAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
SONIA ALPIZAR RODRIGUEZREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
CAMILO DIEGO CEDEÑO CASTROREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016VIVA PUNTARENASprincipal
DIOGENES GARCIA ESPINOZAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
ESAU GONZALEZ CALVOREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
MARIA ANTONIA VEGA VARELAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
HERIBERTO MENDEZ SALASREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
AIDA SOTO RODRIGUEZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016VIVA PUNTARENASsubstitute
VIRGINIA PICADO ALVARADOREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAsubstitute
MARJORIE BALTODANO ESPINOZAREGIDORES(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. “GOLFITO — Municipal council.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-C-PUNTARENAS-GOLFITO. 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.