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PURISCAL — Municipal council

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

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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
PURISCAL / SAN JOSÉ
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-26994ea69fa517c0ec29f74e
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

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL56.7%
  • PURISCAL EN MARCHA24.7%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA14.4%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO2.2%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO2.0%
Results for event-7fa58cacdacb9532e008cd71
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20245,86656.7%3Recorded
PURISCAL EN MARCHAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20242,55624.7%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241,48614.4%1Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20242312.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20242122%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL30.7%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA23.1%
  • COMUNAL UNIDO16.5%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA13.4%
  • PURISCAL EN MARCHA6.4%
  • INTEGRACIÓN NACIONAL3.1%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS2.5%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL2.4%
  • NUEVA REPUBLICA1.8%
Results for event-761679ef772861cbedf7239e
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20203,76230.7%2Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202,83523.1%1Recorded
COMUNAL UNIDOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202,02916.5%1Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201,64513.4%1Recorded
PURISCAL EN MARCHAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20207906.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20203793.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20203052.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202922.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPUBLICAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202241.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA33.8%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL31.9%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA20.2%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO4.3%
  • PURISCALEÑOS DE CORAZÓN4.0%
  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN3.0%
  • MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO2.8%
Results for event-83d881983a465b2165a6c485
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20163,42433.8%2Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20163,23131.9%2Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20162,05120.2%1Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20164354.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PURISCALEÑOS DE CORAZÓNcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20164074%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20163003%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20162812.8%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=31.977586706598395, oldest_gap=1.9054200809556754, previous_gap=7.560557866405677

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

30.27percentage 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=[[56.670853057675586,14.356100859820307,0,2.2316684378320937,0,0,0,0,0,2.048111293594822,0,0,24.69326635107719],[30.682652312209445,23.122094445803768,13.416523937688606,0,2.381534948209771,1.8269309191746188,0,3.091101867710627,0,0,0,0,25.479161569203164],[31.898509230921118,33.80392931187679,20.248790601243954,4.294599664330141,0,0,2.774212656728206,0,0,0,0,0,6.979958534899792]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

25.8percentage 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: 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=[[56.670853057675586,14.356100859820307,0,2.2316684378320937,0,0,0,0,0,2.048111293594822,0,0,24.69326635107719],[30.682652312209445,23.122094445803768,13.416523937688606,0,2.381534948209771,1.8269309191746188,0,3.091101867710627,0,0,0,0,25.479161569203164],[31.898509230921118,33.80392931187679,20.248790601243954,4.294599664330141,0,0,2.774212656728206,0,0,0,0,0,6.979958534899792]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

28.03percentage 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=[[56.670853057675586,14.356100859820307,0,2.2316684378320937,0,0,0,0,0,2.048111293594822,0,0,24.69326635107719],[30.682652312209445,23.122094445803768,13.416523937688606,0,2.381534948209771,1.8269309191746188,0,3.091101867710627,0,0,0,0,25.479161569203164],[31.898509230921118,33.80392931187679,20.248790601243954,4.294599664330141,0,0,2.774212656728206,0,0,0,0,0,6.979958534899792]]

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?
SANTIAGO CASTRO FALLASREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MIREYA MORA JIMENEZREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
JOSE PABLO FERNANDEZ SOTOREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ORLANDO FERNANDEZ FERNANDEZREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024PURISCAL EN MARCHAprincipal
GLORIANA BERMUDEZ DURANREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
GIOVANNI MORA RODRIGUEZREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MARIANGEL MORA HERRERAREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MARIO CHACON RUBIREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MICHAEL HERNAN FERNANDEZ GUERREROREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024PURISCAL EN MARCHAsubstitute
PRISCILLA VANESSA AGUILAR JIMENEZREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
RAQUEL MORA CALDERONREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
JOSE JOAQUIN JIMENEZ HERRERAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARCO VINICIO CHACON QUESADAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
OSCAR BERMUDEZ MONTEROREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020COMUNAL UNIDOprincipal
FLOR MORA ESPINOZAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
LUIS ALBERTO LEON GUILLENREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ADRIANA PAMELA FUENTES FERNANDEZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
BITTINIA FERNANDEZ MARINREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
LAURA PORRAS CHAVESREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020COMUNAL UNIDOsubstitute
GUILLERMO ALONSO MONTOYA DELGADOREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2020ACCIÓN CIUDADANAsubstitute
GUSTAVO ARIAS MONGEREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
SANDRA SALAZAR HERNANDEZREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
ADEMAR MADRIGAL CAMPOSREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
VERA ALVARADO SANCHEZREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
GEINER DELGADO MORAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
BITTINIA FERNANDEZ MARINREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
ERNESTO JIMENEZ MORAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
ADRIANA PAMELA FUENTES FERNANDEZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
CARLOS LUIS MADRIGAL RUBIREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
FLOR MORA ESPINOZAREGIDORES(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. “PURISCAL — Municipal council.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-C-SAN-JOSE-PURISCAL. 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.