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SAN JOSÉ — Syndic and district council — shared ballot
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SAN JOSÉ — 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: 68.0/100. 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 53.7 points; earlier interval 55.3 points; two-interval mean 54.5 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
LIBERAL PROGRESISTA23334.62%1
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA16925.11%2
PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICO12718.87%1
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL649.51%1
NUEVA GENERACIÓN284.16%0
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO284.16%0
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA121.78%0
NUEVA REPÚBLICA121.78%0

Result source · PDF page 491; district 6 · 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
ARIAM MARIA ARCE PORRASSINDICATURA PROPIETARIALIBERAL PROGRESISTANoDeclaration
LUIS DIEGO CASTILLO LOPEZSINDICATURA SUPLENTELIBERAL PROGRESISTAYesDeclaration
HORACIO PORRAS GONZALEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
KAREN MELISSA PORRAS CEDEÑOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
GABRIELA ARROYO SUAREZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICONoDeclaration
EILEEN SEGURA PALMACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ALVARO ANDRES CASTRO CORTESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
ANDREINA RAMIREZ GOMEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
MANUEL ANTONIO RAMIREZ CASTROCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESPROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICOYesDeclaration
GABRIELA SIBAJA CASTROCONCEJALÍAS 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
NUEVA GENERACIÓN19828.01%1
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA18726.45%2
UNIÓN ATENIENSE13118.53%1
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL7510.61%1
NUEVA REPÚBLICA446.22%0
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO283.96%0
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA263.68%0
UNIDOS PODEMOS182.55%0

Result source · Sheet 4.33; district 6 · 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
HUGO ALBERTO CUBERO ROJASSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIONUEVA GENERACIÓNNoDeclaration
ANDREINA RAMIREZ GOMEZSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTENUEVA GENERACIÓNYesDeclaration
VICTOR HUGO PINEDA CHAVARRIACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
MARJORIE CAMPOS GUZMANCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
ALEXIS LOPEZ QUESADACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIÓN ATENIENSENoDeclaration
MARIA DEL MILAGRO SIBAJA CASTROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
HORACIO PORRAS GONZALEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
BERTALIA DE LOS ANGELES PALMA GARITACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
YENORY SOTO AVILACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIÓN ATENIENSEYesDeclaration
JOSE CARLOS CAMPOS MORACONCEJALES 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
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA17132.39%3
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL15930.11%0
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA8916.86%1
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO5810.98%1
FRENTE AMPLIO417.77%0
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO101.89%0

Result source · Sheet 4.33; district 6 · 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
SARA CECILIA CUBERO ZUÑIGASÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIAUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
OSCAR ANDRES VIQUEZ GARITASÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTEUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
ANA LAURA CABALLERO AGUILARCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
JOSE RAFAEL ARCE ARIASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
JONATHAN ANTONIO ZUÑIGA PORRASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)ACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
MARCO TULIO CHAVES VENEGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANONoDeclaration
HORACIO PORRAS GONZALEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
MARIA FERNANDA ARROYO HERRERACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
RANDALL GERARDO ZUÑIGA PORRASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration
LUIS GARCIA BOLAÑOSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESREPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOYesDeclaration

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