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CONCEPCIÓN — Syndic and district council — shared ballot
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CONCEPCIÓN — 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: 57.9/100. 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 52.0 points; earlier interval 61.1 points; two-interval mean 56.5 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
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO36626.68%1
PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICO33424.34%2
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA26419.24%1
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL14110.28%1
NUEVA REPÚBLICA1057.65%0
NUEVA GENERACIÓN695.03%0
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA614.45%0
LIBERAL PROGRESISTA322.33%0

Result source · PDF page 491; district 5 · 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
CARLOS EDUARDO MADRIGAL FERNANDEZSINDICATURA PROPIETARIOREPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANONoDeclaration
MARIA GABRIELA PORRAS LOPEZSINDICATURA SUPLENTEREPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOYesDeclaration
SIRBANO MORA GUERREROCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICONoDeclaration
ELIZETH AMALIA ALFARO ARGUEDASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICONoDeclaration
DANILO VASQUEZ TRIGUEROSCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
DORIS BOLAÑOS ESPINOZACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
GERMAN CHAVARRIA ROJASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESPROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICOYesDeclaration
MARIA PAULA RODRIGUEZ BRENESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESPROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICOYesDeclaration
KEVIN ALBERTO TRIGUEROS ESPINOZACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
RANDALL JOSE ALFARO LEONCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
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
UNIÓN ATENIENSE52936.33%3
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA24016.48%1
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL18912.98%1
NUEVA REPÚBLICA17211.81%0
NUEVA GENERACIÓN1359.27%0
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA785.36%0
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO604.12%0
UNIDOS PODEMOS533.64%0

Result source · Sheet 4.33; district 5 · 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
OMAR RAMOS ARCESÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOUNIÓN ATENIENSENoDeclaration
ANA VICTORIA ESPINOZA SALASSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTEUNIÓN ATENIENSEYesDeclaration
MARDEN SILVERIO MORA GARCIACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIÓN ATENIENSENoDeclaration
NATALY ARTAVIA MUÑOZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIÓN ATENIENSENoDeclaration
JIMENA MARIA HERNANDEZ ESPINOZACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
KARINA RODRIGUEZ CHAVESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
JENNY SEGURA ARRIETACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIÓN ATENIENSEYesDeclaration
RONNY JAVIER PORRAS CASTROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIÓN ATENIENSEYesDeclaration
LESLIE VANESSA VASQUEZ PANIAGUACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
FRANCISCO SOTO ROJASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
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 NACIONAL36234.05%2
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA24923.42%1
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA21820.51%1
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO15014.11%1
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO464.33%0
FRENTE AMPLIO383.57%0

Result source · Sheet 4.33; district 5 · 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
JENIFFER KARINA ARGUEDAS BERROCALSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIALIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
JORGE ALBERTO MORA GUERREROSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
RAMON GERARDO CHACON FERNANDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
HEISY TRIGUEROS LOPEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)ACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
LIGIA VARGAS MATAMOROSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
PABLO ANDRES CASTRO CALDERONCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANONoDeclaration
ALICE CAMPOS HERNANDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
CARLOS JESUS ARGUEDAS PORRASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration
RICARDO AUGUSTO CASTRO CALDERONCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
JOHNNY VILLALOBOS JIMENEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESREPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOYesDeclaration

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