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LEÓN CORTÉS — Municipal council

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Costa Rica · LEÓN CORTÉS / SAN JOSÉ · municipal · Municipal councilCR-C-SAN-JOSE-LEON-CORTES

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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
LEÓN CORTÉS / SAN JOSÉ
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-f812fdbad764d6ddff63eb1f
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

  • FRENTE AMPLIO50.0%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL46.1%
  • LIBERAL PROGRESISTA3.9%
Results for event-5d9340a35ba1834e09932072
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241,97550%3Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241,81946.1%2Recorded
LIBERAL PROGRESISTAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241553.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL73.8%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO19.2%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL7.0%
Results for event-56cf63fb8321e5d065519f64
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202,75773.8%4Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202071719.2%1Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202607%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL71.1%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA25.7%
  • MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO3.2%
Results for event-2aaa25bd2037752d3a24585b
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20162,66571.1%4Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201696325.7%1Recorded
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161183.2%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=3.9503671815649497, oldest_gap=45.43513080619327, previous_gap=54.63310123192288

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

34.74percentage 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: 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=[[46.0622942517093,0,0,50.012661433274246,0,0,0,0,0,0,3.92504431501646,0,0],[73.83502945902518,0,0,19.201928227102304,6.963042313872522,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],[71.1425520555259,0,25.707421249332622,0,0,0,3.1500266951414844,0,0,0,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

28.86percentage 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=[[46.0622942517093,0,0,50.012661433274246,0,0,0,0,0,0,3.92504431501646,0,0],[73.83502945902518,0,0,19.201928227102304,6.963042313872522,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],[71.1425520555259,0,25.707421249332622,0,0,0,3.1500266951414844,0,0,0,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

31.8percentage 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=[[46.0622942517093,0,0,50.012661433274246,0,0,0,0,0,0,3.92504431501646,0,0],[73.83502945902518,0,0,19.201928227102304,6.963042313872522,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],[71.1425520555259,0,25.707421249332622,0,0,0,3.1500266951414844,0,0,0,0,0,0]]

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?
ZAHIRA TORRES SOLANOREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024FRENTE AMPLIOprincipal
RONNY DURAN MORAREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024FRENTE AMPLIOprincipal
VANESSA PIEDRA GUTIERREZREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024FRENTE AMPLIOprincipal
SERGIO VALVERDE MEZAREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
BYANCA NAZARETH UREÑA CASTROREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARJORIE BONILLA UREÑAREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024FRENTE AMPLIOsubstitute
MARVIN PIEDRA GAMBOAREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024FRENTE AMPLIOsubstitute
DAISY ALEJANDRA CAMACHO CAMACHOREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024FRENTE AMPLIOsubstitute
JOSE ANTONIO RIVERA MORAREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ANA MARIA DURAN ABARCAREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MELISSA VICTORIA MORA ALPIZARREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
JOSE FRANCISCO MORA MENAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARIA GABRIELA GUTIERREZ BONILLAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
EDGAR FALLAS FALLASREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
JUAN MANUEL QUIROS SANCHEZREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020FRENTE AMPLIOprincipal
ALFREDO VENEGAS MONGEREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ANDREA CRISTINA MORA ALPIZARREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
DAGOBERTO GONZALEZ QUESADAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
YORLENY QUESADA VALVERDEREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
SARA ABIGAIL ANGULO VENEGASREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020FRENTE AMPLIOsubstitute
JEFFRY ALBERTO ABARCA VALVERDEREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
VIVIAN JAHAIRA MORA FERNANDEZREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
JOSE FRANCISCO MORA MENAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARIA GABRIELA GUTIERREZ BONILLAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
YORLENY QUESADA VALVERDEREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
MARIA DE LOS ANGELES UMAÑA BONILLAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ALFREDO VENEGAS MONGEREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
KARINA LISBETH ARIAS MORAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
GUIDO RAMON MORA FERNANDEZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
JOSE ANTONIO RIVERA MORAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAsubstitute

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. “LEÓN CORTÉS — Municipal council.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-C-SAN-JOSE-LEON-CORTES. 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.