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DOTA — Municipal council

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Costa Rica · DOTA / SAN JOSÉ · municipal · Municipal councilCR-C-SAN-JOSE-DOTA

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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
DOTA / SAN JOSÉ
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-f1bcc58dc0e473e8681942a0
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 CRISTIANA76.7%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL23.3%
Results for event-ff5894f04e504f9dc135fb8d
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20242,20776.7%4Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202467023.3%1Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL63.6%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA33.6%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL1.5%
  • NUESTRO PUEBLO1.3%
Results for event-021f273f7e9a6cc7b37bd7ee
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201,93963.6%3Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201,02533.6%2Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020461.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUESTRO PUEBLOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020401.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL66.9%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA10.7%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO9.9%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA8.8%
  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN3.3%
  • MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO0.3%
Results for event-3b102f2ec54b99e795b63ed0
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161,93166.9%4Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201631010.7%1Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20162879.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20162548.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016963.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016100.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

0 (recorded zero)0–100 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=53.423705248522765, oldest_gap=56.12880886426593, previous_gap=29.967213114754102

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

43.11percentage 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=[[23.288147375738617,76.71185262426138,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],[63.57377049180328,33.60655737704918,0,0,1.5081967213114753,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1.3114754098360655],[66.8628808864266,10.734072022160666,8.795013850415513,9.937673130193906,0,0,0.3462603878116344,0,0,0,0,0,3.3240997229916895]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

24.38percentage 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=[[23.288147375738617,76.71185262426138,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],[63.57377049180328,33.60655737704918,0,0,1.5081967213114753,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1.3114754098360655],[66.8628808864266,10.734072022160666,8.795013850415513,9.937673130193906,0,0,0.3462603878116344,0,0,0,0,0,3.3240997229916895]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

33.74percentage 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=[[23.288147375738617,76.71185262426138,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],[63.57377049180328,33.60655737704918,0,0,1.5081967213114753,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1.3114754098360655],[66.8628808864266,10.734072022160666,8.795013850415513,9.937673130193906,0,0,0.3462603878116344,0,0,0,0,0,3.3240997229916895]]

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?
ANA VANESSA MATA CORDEROREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
RONALD ALBERTO CALDERON VALVERDEREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
JOHANNA PATRICIA SOLANO MONTEROREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
ROLANDO FONSECA BRENESREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
JOHANNA CHANTO VARGASREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
IVONNE FALLAS FALLASREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
ENRIQUE JIMENEZ HERNANDEZREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
ANA FIORINA RETANA ROJASREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
EDWIN ALEXANDER VALVERDE ELIZONDOREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
LEDA ROXANA UREÑA BRENESREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
BRHANDON RICARDO CHINCHILLA MUÑOZREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ANA CRISTINA UREÑA UREÑAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
JOSE PABLO MARIN CORDEROREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
RONALD ALBERTO CALDERON VALVERDEREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
SONIA JIMENEZ UREÑAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
JACQUELINE VANESSA SOLIS PARRAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
BYRON LUIS VINDAS BRENESREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
SONIA MARIA MADRIGAL BADILLAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
FABIOLA FERNANDEZ CORDEROREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
CARLOS RODRIGUEZ MARTINEZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
MARIA ELENA BRENES FERNANDEZREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
RONALD VALVERDE HIDALGOREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ANA CRISTINA UREÑA UREÑAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
AUDIEL MOISES CERDAS CORDEROREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MAGALY BRENES UREÑAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
BRHANDON RICARDO CHINCHILLA MUÑOZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
NATALIA CIVIANA FALLAS FALLASREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
CLARIS VALVERDE MONGEREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
SONIA MARIA MADRIGAL BADILLAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
CESAR ROLANDO CHINCHILLA SEGURAREGIDORES(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. “DOTA — Municipal council.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-C-SAN-JOSE-DOTA. Sources: costa-rica--url-ae6cfb21525f974d8912a00e, costa-rica--url-9b0bf8940eb485b811da317e, costa-rica--url-f8a1e09c9e89a7e5e9c55114, costa-rica--Sc1df243471, costa-rica--See87eff563, costa-rica--Sfa91292290, costa-rica--S2be00cb1cf, costa-rica--S79669f3e5d, costa-rica--S6bb1784b3c.