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PURISCAL — Municipal council

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PURISCAL — Municipal council
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Costa Rica · SAN JOSÉ

PURISCAL — 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 30.3 points; earlier interval 25.8 points; two-interval mean 28.0 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
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL5,86656.67%3
PURISCAL EN MARCHA2,55624.69%1
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA1,48614.36%1
FRENTE AMPLIO2312.23%0
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO2122.05%0

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
SANTIAGO CASTRO FALLASREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MIREYA MORA JIMENEZREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
JOSE PABLO FERNANDEZ SOTOREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ORLANDO FERNANDEZ FERNANDEZREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASPURISCAL EN MARCHANoDeclaration
GLORIANA BERMUDEZ DURANREGIDURÍAS PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
GIOVANNI MORA RODRIGUEZREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MARIANGEL MORA HERRERAREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MARIO CHACON RUBIREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MICHAEL HERNAN FERNANDEZ GUERREROREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESPURISCAL EN MARCHAYesDeclaration
PRISCILLA VANESSA AGUILAR JIMENEZREGIDURÍAS SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
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 NACIONAL3,76230.68%2
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA2,83523.12%1
COMUNAL UNIDO2,02916.55%1
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA1,64513.42%1
PURISCAL EN MARCHA7906.44%0
INTEGRACIÓN NACIONAL3793.09%0
UNIDOS PODEMOS3052.49%0
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL2922.38%0
NUEVA REPUBLICA2241.83%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
RAQUEL MORA CALDERONREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
JOSE JOAQUIN JIMENEZ HERRERAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MARCO VINICIO CHACON QUESADAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
OSCAR BERMUDEZ MONTEROREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)COMUNAL UNIDONoDeclaration
FLOR MORA ESPINOZAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)ACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
LUIS ALBERTO LEON GUILLENREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
ADRIANA PAMELA FUENTES FERNANDEZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
BITTINIA FERNANDEZ MARINREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
LAURA PORRAS CHAVESREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESCOMUNAL UNIDOYesDeclaration
GUILLERMO ALONSO MONTOYA DELGADOREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration
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
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA3,42433.80%2
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL3,23131.90%2
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA2,05120.25%1
FRENTE AMPLIO4354.29%0
PURISCALEÑOS DE CORAZÓN4074.02%0
NUEVA GENERACIÓN3002.96%0
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO2812.77%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
GUSTAVO ARIAS MONGEREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
SANDRA SALAZAR HERNANDEZREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
ADEMAR MADRIGAL CAMPOSREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
VERA ALVARADO SANCHEZREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
GEINER DELGADO MORAREGIDORES(AS) PROPIETARIOS(AS)ACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
BITTINIA FERNANDEZ MARINREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
ERNESTO JIMENEZ MORAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
ADRIANA PAMELA FUENTES FERNANDEZREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
CARLOS LUIS MADRIGAL RUBIREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
FLOR MORA ESPINOZAREGIDORES(AS) SUPLENTESACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration

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