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DOTA — Municipal council
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DOTA — 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 43.1 points; earlier interval 24.4 points; two-interval mean 33.7 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 CRISTIANA2,20776.71%4
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL67023.29%1

Result source · PDF page 263–264 · 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
ANA VANESSA MATA CORDEROREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
RONALD ALBERTO CALDERON VALVERDEREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
JOHANNA PATRICIA SOLANO MONTEROREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
ROLANDO FONSECA BRENESREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
JOHANNA CHANTO VARGASREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
IVONNE FALLAS FALLASREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
ENRIQUE JIMENEZ HERNANDEZREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
ANA FIORINA RETANA ROJASREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
EDWIN ALEXANDER VALVERDE ELIZONDOREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
LEDA ROXANA UREÑA BRENESREGIDURÍAS 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
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL1,93963.57%3
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA1,02533.61%2
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL461.51%0
NUESTRO PUEBLO401.31%0

Result source · Sheet 3.2 · 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
BRHANDON RICARDO CHINCHILLA MUÑOZREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ANA CRISTINA UREÑA UREÑAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
JOSE PABLO MARIN CORDEROREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
RONALD ALBERTO CALDERON VALVERDEREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
SONIA JIMENEZ UREÑAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
JACQUELINE VANESSA SOLIS PARRAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
BYRON LUIS VINDAS BRENESREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
SONIA MARIA MADRIGAL BADILLAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
FABIOLA FERNANDEZ CORDEROREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
CARLOS RODRIGUEZ MARTINEZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
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 NACIONAL1,93166.86%4
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA31010.73%1
FRENTE AMPLIO2879.94%0
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA2548.80%0
NUEVA GENERACIÓN963.32%0
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO100.35%0

Result source · Sheet 3.2 · 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
MARIA ELENA BRENES FERNANDEZREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
RONALD VALVERDE HIDALGOREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ANA CRISTINA UREÑA UREÑAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
AUDIEL MOISES CERDAS CORDEROREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MAGALY BRENES UREÑAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
BRHANDON RICARDO CHINCHILLA MUÑOZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
NATALIA CIVIANA FALLAS FALLASREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
CLARIS VALVERDE MONGEREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
SONIA MARIA MADRIGAL BADILLAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
CESAR ROLANDO CHINCHILLA SEGURAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration

Snapshot 13 September 2026. Fixed election window 8 September 2026 to 8 March 2028. Record CR-C-SAN-JOSE-DOTA.