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SARAPIQUÍ — Syndic and district council — shared ballot
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SARAPIQUÍ — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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: 62.5/100. 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 56.9 points; earlier interval 27.1 points; two-interval mean 42.0 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; includes one syndic plus four district councillors

Source note: Seats counted from named titular members, excluding substitutes and vice-executives.

Party or listCandidateVotes or marksVote shareSeats
PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICO29128.33%3
NUESTRO PUEBLO25224.54%0
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL18117.62%1
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA17517.04%1
DESPERTAR ALAJUELENSE656.33%0
RENOVEMOS ALAJUELA292.82%0
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA232.24%0
NUEVA GENERACIÓN111.07%0

Result source · PDF page 484; district 14 · 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
EDGAR MARIO ARAYA BOZASINDICATURA PROPIETARIOPROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICONoDeclaration
PAOLA PATRICIA VILLANEA VILLALOBOSSINDICATURA SUPLENTEPROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICOYesDeclaration
SANDRA MARIA MENDEZ ULATECONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICONoDeclaration
FEDERICO UGALDE CHAVARRIACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICONoDeclaration
JENIFFER DAYANA PANIAGUA SANCHEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MARIA ISABEL FONSECA RODRIGUEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
MILENA ROCIO FERRETO ARTAVIACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESPROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICOYesDeclaration
JOSE EMILIANO ARIAS CASTROCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESPROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICOYesDeclaration
PRISCILLA CAROLINA PEREZ CHAVARRIACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
FREDDY MILTON UGALDE VASQUEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO 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; includes one syndic plus four district councillors

Source note: Seats counted from named titular members, excluding substitutes and vice-executives.

Party or listCandidateVotes or marksVote shareSeats
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL32039.07%3
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA21826.62%2
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO8410.26%0
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL678.18%0
DESPERTAR ALAJUELENSE617.45%0
NUEVA REPÚBLICA617.45%0
NUEVA GENERACIÓN80.98%0

Result source · Sheet 4.29; district 14 · 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
ANAIS PANIAGUA SANCHEZSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIALIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
DONAL MORERA ESQUIVELSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
JENIFFER DAYANA PANIAGUA SANCHEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
EDGAR MARIO ARAYA BOZACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MIGUEL LOPEZ CRUZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
ROSALIA VIQUEZ SOTOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
KATTIA ELENA SOTO RODRIGUEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
JEISON STIVEN PANIAGUA SANCHEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
CINTHIA MAYELA CHAVES ALVAREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
CARLOS ANDRES SALAZAR ZAMORACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO 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; includes one syndic plus four district councillors

Source note: Seats counted from named titular members, excluding substitutes and vice-executives.

Party or listCandidateVotes or marksVote shareSeats
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL34341.18%3
RENOVEMOS ALAJUELA21926.29%1
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA20424.49%1
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA556.60%0
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO80.96%0
FRENTE AMPLIO20.24%0
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO20.24%0

Result source · Sheet 4.29; district 14 · 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
ANAIS PANIAGUA SANCHEZSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIALIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
DONAL MORERA ESQUIVELSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
KATTIA MARIA GODINEZ PICADOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
CARLOS UGALDE VASQUEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ALEXANDER GOMEZ FERRETOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)RENOVEMOS ALAJUELANoDeclaration; inferred party-code join
CARLOS ALBERTO CRUZ NUÑEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
CINDY GABRIELA CRUZ PRENDASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
EDWIN DANIEL JIMENEZ PADILLACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
ROSIBEL MAYELA CHAVES MENDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESRENOVEMOS ALAJUELAYesDeclaration; inferred party-code join
MARITZABEL GOMEZ ARTAVIACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration

Snapshot 13 September 2026. Fixed election window 8 September 2026 to 8 March 2028. Record CR-D-ALAJUELA-ALAJUELA-SARAPIQUI.