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ATENAS — Syndic and district council — shared ballot
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ATENAS — 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: 26.3/100. 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 57.1 points; earlier interval 38.7 points; two-interval mean 47.9 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 DEMOCRÁTICO1,42537.22%3
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO61215.98%0
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL47412.38%1
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA45911.99%1
LIBERAL PROGRESISTA39410.29%0
NUEVA GENERACIÓN1734.52%0
NUEVA REPÚBLICA1534.00%0
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA1393.63%0

Result source · PDF page 491; district 1 · 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 MARCELA VILLARREAL CALDERONSINDICATURA PROPIETARIAPROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICONoDeclaration
JORGE RAFAEL RAMIREZ RODRIGUEZSINDICATURA SUPLENTEPROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICOYesDeclaration
ELIAS AURELIO RODRIGUEZ RAMIREZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICONoDeclaration
CAROLINA AGUIAR SALAZARCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICONoDeclaration
JOSE CARLOS CHAVES INNECKENCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
EDUARDO ENRIQUE GUTIERREZ RODRIGUEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
ALEJANDRO JIMENEZ OVARESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESPROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICOYesDeclaration
STEPHANIE JOSSETTE DELGADO PEREZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESPROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICOYesDeclaration
ADRIAN ALFONSO HERRERA ALPIZARCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
EDWIN ANTONIO MORERA CORTESCONCEJALÍAS 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. The final declaration supersedes its initial mathematical allocation where candidate eligibility or vacant nominations alter the distribution.

Party or listCandidateVotes or marksVote shareSeats
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL1,02825.95%1
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA78119.71%2
UNIÓN ATENIENSE48912.34%1
NUEVA REPÚBLICA45011.36%1
NUEVA GENERACIÓN40710.27%0
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA3699.31%0
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO2526.36%0
UNIDOS PODEMOS1864.69%0

Result source · Sheet 4.33; district 1 · 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
JOSE CARLOS CHAVES INNECKENSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ROSA ISABEL GONZALEZ RODRIGUEZSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
ANALIVE ESPINOZA MIRANDACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
MAX OVIEDO RODRIGUEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
JOSHUA QUESADA LEDEZMACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIÓN ATENIENSENoDeclaration
LUIS WILLIAM ESPINOZA MENACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)NUEVA REPÚBLICANoDeclaration
JUAN EDUARDO GONZALEZ CALDERONCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
JOHANNA MARCELA MORA LEONCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
SEIDY JUDITH RODRIGUEZ GONZALEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIÓN ATENIENSEYesDeclaration
MARIA PRISCILA PORRAS FERNANDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESNUEVA REPÚBLICAYesDeclaration
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
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA99729.51%3
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL95228.17%1
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA68620.30%1
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO36910.92%0
FRENTE AMPLIO2527.46%0
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO1233.64%0

Result source · Sheet 4.33; district 1 · 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
EDVIN GERARDO LORIA PACHECOSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
MAYELA MARIA LEON VIQUEZSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTEACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration
JULIETA MARIA VIQUEZ ROJASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)ACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
WILLIAM JESUS ORTEGA LEONCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)ACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
FABIOLA CASTRO LOBOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
JOAQUIN CHAVES QUESADACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
ANDREY ARGUEDAS JIMENEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration
YULIANA PATRICIA SANCHEZ CASTROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration
MARIA ESTER BRENES OVARESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MAX OVIEDO RODRIGUEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration

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