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CAÑO NEGRO — Syndic and district council — shared ballot
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CAÑO NEGRO — 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: 16.2/100. 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 66.9 points; earlier interval 56.5 points; two-interval mean 61.7 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 PROGRESISTA15328.44%3
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL14526.95%1
NUESTRO PUEBLO10218.96%0
UNIDOS PODEMOS8615.99%1
NUEVA REPÚBLICA336.13%0
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA193.53%0

Result source · PDF page 506; district 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
JESUS GERARDO MORA VALLESINDICATURA PROPIETARIOLIBERAL PROGRESISTANoDeclaration
ANA ARACELLY ORTIZ CENTENOSINDICATURA SUPLENTELIBERAL PROGRESISTAYesDeclaration
CIPRIANO GARCIA TELLESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERAL PROGRESISTANoDeclaration
ELIZABETH BONILLA SEQUEIRACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERAL PROGRESISTANoDeclaration
RITA MARIA LORIA ALFAROCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
DAVID BONILLA SEQUEIRACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDOS PODEMOSNoDeclaration
JONATHAN JOSUE SANDI CHAVARRIACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERAL PROGRESISTAYesDeclaration
MARTHA YOGEBETH CANALES ARIASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERAL PROGRESISTAYesDeclaration
ANABEL AVILEZ BUSTOSCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
FELIX ADRIAN ORTIZ DUARTECONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDOS PODEMOSYesDeclaration
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 NACIONAL31571.27%5
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO8819.91%0
NUEVA REPÚBLICA398.82%0

Result source · Sheet 4.42; district 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
ELIECER GAITAN ALVARADOSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
EVELYN DEL CARMEN TALENO LEITONSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MIGUEL CORDOBA RODRIGUEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
YORLENY MIRANDA REYESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
JUAN MARIA REYES PICADOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
WENDY YAJAIRA HERNANDEZ HURTADOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
KAREN LIZ SANTAMARIA RODRIGUEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
ALAN GONZALEZ DUARTECONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
KAROL JOHANNA PEREZ OBANDOCONCEJALES 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 NACIONAL18043.48%4
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA16138.89%0
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA399.42%1
RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSE174.11%0
FRENTE AMPLIO133.14%0
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO40.97%0

Result source · Sheet 4.42; district 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
ELIECER GAITAN ALVARADOSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
KAROL JOHANNA PEREZ OBANDOSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
CIPRIANO GARCIA TELLESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
CINDY NATALIA MUÑOZ ALEMANCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
JUAN MARIA REYES PICADOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
CARLOS GARCIA CARBALLOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
ALAN GONZALEZ DUARTECONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
SINDY MARIA JARQUIN CENTENOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
EDVIN OBANDO GARCIACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
ANATOLIA MEZA BONILLACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration

Snapshot 13 September 2026. Fixed election window 8 September 2026 to 8 March 2028. Record CR-D-ALAJUELA-LOS-CHILES-CANO-NEGRO.