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NARANJO — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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NARANJO — Syndic and district council — shared ballot
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NARANJO — 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: 0.0/100. 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 53.1 points; earlier interval 48.2 points; two-interval mean 50.7 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
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL2,39045.48%3
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA1,31324.99%1
NUEVA REPÚBLICA89817.09%1
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA4428.41%0
PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICO2124.03%0

Result source · PDF page 492; 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
GEANNINE AGUERO ARGUIJOSINDICATURA PROPIETARIALIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
LUIS ALONSO MATAMOROS ARCESINDICATURA SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
YESSICA VIVIANA CUBERO RODRIGUEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
DIEGO ESTEBAN SEGURA SOTELACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
HELDER ALONSO MORALES ALFAROCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
GRACE ARAYA PORRASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)NUEVA REPÚBLICANoDeclaration
ANA SOFIA CHINCHILLA CHINCHILLACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
LUIS GUSTAVO ROJAS CHACONCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
GUSTAVO ADOLFO RUIZ ARAUZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
LEIDY DEL CARMEN MENA CAMBRONEROCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESNUEVA REPÚBLICAYesDeclaration
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
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA3,69264.00%5
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL4708.15%0
NUEVA GENERACIÓN4297.44%0
NUEVA REPÚBLICA3085.34%0
ACCIÓN NARANJEÑA2754.77%0
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA2574.45%0
INTEGRACIÓN NACIONAL1823.15%0
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO811.40%0
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL751.30%0

Result source · Sheet 4.34; 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
LAURA PATRICIA SANCHEZ FONSECASÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIAUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
JAVIER MOISES SALAZAR SANCHEZSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTEUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
MARIA JOSE FERNANDEZ VARELACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
AARON SALAS CAMPOSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
YAMILETH SALAS PEREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
JUAN MANUEL CHAVES VARGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
RAQUEL BLANCO SALASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
WILBER ARTURO SANCHEZ ZUÑIGACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
OLGA LIDIA CHAVES VARGASCONCEJALES 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
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA1,25922.67%2
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA1,02118.38%1
RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSE91816.53%1
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL89116.04%1
FRENTE AMPLIO4668.39%0
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO4508.10%0
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO3275.89%0
INTEGRACIÓN NACIONAL1612.90%0
DE LOS TRABAJADORES611.10%0

Result source · Sheet 4.34; 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
HELDER ALONSO MORALES ALFAROSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
OLGA MARITA CASTRO CASTROSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTEUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
OLGA LIDIA CHAVES VARGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
MARIA DEL ROSARIO SANCHO MORERACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)ACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
JOSE RODRIGO ROJAS MORALESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSENoDeclaration
MANUEL ANGEL RODRIGUEZ PEREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ALVARO VARGAS UMAÑACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
ERIK RIVERA ALFAROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration
MARIO UMAÑA ALFAROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESRENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSEYesDeclaration
LILIA ARROYO ARCECONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration

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