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PALMITOS — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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Costa Rica · PALMITOS / ALAJUELA · other · Syndic and district council — shared ballotCR-D-ALAJUELA-NARANJO-PALMITOS

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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.

1. What office, where, and when is the next election?

Geography
PALMITOS / ALAJUELA
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-13f8e48f948355305aca371a
Registry qualification
Unknown

2. How certain is that date?

2028-02-06 is expected (not formally called). Day precision. A date without a formal call is not confirmed.

3. Who won earlier selected elections?

2024-02-04

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA43.9%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL30.0%
  • PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICO10.8%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA10.4%
  • AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA4.8%
Results for event-02435d92fcca7a210a7d6a59
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202456843.9%3Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202438830%2Recorded
PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202414010.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202413510.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024624.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA68.6%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL12.8%
  • INTEGRACIÓN NACIONAL7.4%
  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN4.4%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA2.2%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA1.9%
  • ACCIÓN NARANJEÑA1.7%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO1.0%
Results for event-3624f9270641f74c5e14d24f
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202095268.6%5Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202017812.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201027.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020614.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020312.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020261.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACCIÓN NARANJEÑAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020231.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020141%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA33.9%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO23.4%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA16.0%
  • RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSE8.8%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL5.9%
  • MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO4.4%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO3.8%
  • INTEGRACIÓN NACIONAL3.8%
Results for event-14bde889d16b94c50121ae5e
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201642933.9%3Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201629723.4%1Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201620316%1Recorded
RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSEcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161118.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016755.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016564.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016483.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016483.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

0 (recorded zero)0–100 historical closeness

Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete

Comparison status: Provisional imported-series comparison; actual-event review open

Method ci.weighted-gap.v1. Inputs: latest_gap=13.92111368909513, oldest_gap=10.418310970797158, previous_gap=55.80389329488104

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

36.21percentage 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

Comparison status: Latest interval

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PLN","PUSC","PAC","Frente Amplio","PRN","Nueva Republica","PML","PIN","PASE","PRSC","PLP","PPSD","Other"], interval=Latest interval, vectors=[[30.0077339520495,43.92884764114463,0,0,0,10.440835266821345,0,0,0,0,0,10.82753286929621,4.795050270688321],[12.833453496755588,68.63734679163663,1.8745493871665464,0,0,2.235039653929344,0,7.354001441961067,0,1.0093727469358327,0,0,6.056236481614997],[5.919494869771113,33.859510655090766,16.022099447513813,3.7884767166535123,0,0,4.419889502762431,3.7884767166535123,0,23.441199684293608,0,0,8.760852407261247]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

47.49percentage 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

Comparison status: Previous interval

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PLN","PUSC","PAC","Frente Amplio","PRN","Nueva Republica","PML","PIN","PASE","PRSC","PLP","PPSD","Other"], interval=Previous interval, vectors=[[30.0077339520495,43.92884764114463,0,0,0,10.440835266821345,0,0,0,0,0,10.82753286929621,4.795050270688321],[12.833453496755588,68.63734679163663,1.8745493871665464,0,0,2.235039653929344,0,7.354001441961067,0,1.0093727469358327,0,0,6.056236481614997],[5.919494869771113,33.859510655090766,16.022099447513813,3.7884767166535123,0,0,4.419889502762431,3.7884767166535123,0,23.441199684293608,0,0,8.760852407261247]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

41.85percentage 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

Comparison status: Both intervals mean

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PLN","PUSC","PAC","Frente Amplio","PRN","Nueva Republica","PML","PIN","PASE","PRSC","PLP","PPSD","Other"], interval=Both intervals mean, vectors=[[30.0077339520495,43.92884764114463,0,0,0,10.440835266821345,0,0,0,0,0,10.82753286929621,4.795050270688321],[12.833453496755588,68.63734679163663,1.8745493871665464,0,0,2.235039653929344,0,7.354001441961067,0,1.0093727469358327,0,0,6.056236481614997],[5.919494869771113,33.859510655090766,16.022099447513813,3.7884767166535123,0,0,4.419889502762431,3.7884767166535123,0,23.441199684293608,0,0,8.760852407261247]]

Source-reported control: Unverified. Current tenure requires separate dated evidence.

5. Officeholder evidence

Dated roster observations are not automatically current tenure. The source current-office flag means this office is tracked now, not that the last winner still holds it.

Officeholder observations
PersonRoleAs ofAffiliationPrincipal?
MIRIAM ILEANA SALAS CASTROSINDICATURA PROPIETARIA2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
MELVIN GERARDO LEON SALAZARSINDICATURA SUPLENTE2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
MARIA PAULA CAMBRONERO SALASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
JOSE ALCIDES VARGAS FONSECACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
VICTOR JULIO FONSECA VARGASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARIA ELENA QUIROS ESQUIVELCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
KATHERINE MARIA SALAZAR CORDEROCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
LUIS ANGEL SALAS GAMBOACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
LUIS INDALECIO MATARRITA DIAZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
WENDY MARIA PEREZ SANCHEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
JIMMY ANTONIO SALAS CARVAJALSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
MARIA ROSA CHACON CASTROSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
SONIA FONSECA QUESADACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
JOSE SALAS MOYACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
INES MURILLO CASTROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
MIRIAM ILEANA SALAS CASTROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
ALBERTO MAURICIO CALDERON DIAZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
DIANA CAROLINA SALAS CAMPOSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
FABIAN ANTONIO LIZANO SANCHEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
CARLOS MANUEL CALVO QUESADASÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
MAYDA FONSECA BOLAÑOSSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
CORNELIO MURILLO CASTROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
ANA JIMENA MORA MURILLOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
CARLOS FRANCISCO GONZALEZ JIMENEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOprincipal
ANTONIO HERNANDEZ MONTEROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
MELISSA ZAPATA FONSECACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
OSCAR JOSE HERRERA RODRIGUEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
XIOMARA MONTERO MONTEROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOsubstitute
KAROL LISSET TORRES ARTAVIACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAsubstitute

6. Polling context

No local poll supplied.

7. Unresolved issues and sources

  • other · open

    Published province heading correction: {"issue": "Published province heading correction", "year": 2020, "area": "Heredia", "source_id": "S41377daad8", "resolution": "The amendment corrects CARTAGO to HEREDIA in the second table heading. It changes no votes, winners or seats; the original declaration is joined to Heredia."}

Sources

Cite this record

Center for Digital Democracy. “PALMITOS — Syndic and district council — shared ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-D-ALAJUELA-NARANJO-PALMITOS. Sources: costa-rica--url-ae6cfb21525f974d8912a00e, costa-rica--url-9b0bf8940eb485b811da317e, costa-rica--url-f8a1e09c9e89a7e5e9c55114, costa-rica--Sc1df243471, costa-rica--S417ce30162, costa-rica--Sfa91292290, costa-rica--S1e4a0f04da, costa-rica--S79669f3e5d, costa-rica--S1f7e491d3c.