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COYOLAR — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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Costa Rica · COYOLAR / ALAJUELA · other · Syndic and district council — shared ballotCR-D-ALAJUELA-OROTINA-COYOLAR

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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
COYOLAR / ALAJUELA
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-8bcbb995c01036e838dca1a1
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

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL43.2%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS21.5%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA19.5%
  • AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA13.0%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA2.9%
Results for event-46293a24d4ccf42f96178419
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202454343.2%3Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202427021.5%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202424519.5%1Recorded
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202416413%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024362.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL37.9%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA28.9%
  • LIBERAL PROGRESISTA25.1%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL3.7%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA3.1%
  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN1.3%
Results for event-8403083865c98a2b4ccdce2a
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202065637.9%3Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202050128.9%1Recorded
LIBERAL PROGRESISTAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202043425.1%1Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020643.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020543.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020221.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL64.2%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA30.2%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL4.0%
  • RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSE0.9%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA0.7%
Results for event-743e6d0f97ea5c6c2e50cad0
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201690964.2%4Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201642730.2%1Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016574%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSEcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016130.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016100.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

4.450–100 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=21.70111287758347, oldest_gap=34.039548022598865, previous_gap=8.954361640670136

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

38.49percentage 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: 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=[[43.1637519872814,19.475357710651828,0,0,0,2.861685214626391,0,0,0,0,0,0,34.49920508744038],[37.89716926632005,28.942807625649912,0,0,3.6972848064702486,3.119584055459272,0,0,0,0,25.072212593876372,0,1.270941652224148],[64.19491525423729,30.15536723163842,0.7062146892655368,0,4.02542372881356,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.9180790960451978]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

28.54percentage 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=[[43.1637519872814,19.475357710651828,0,0,0,2.861685214626391,0,0,0,0,0,0,34.49920508744038],[37.89716926632005,28.942807625649912,0,0,3.6972848064702486,3.119584055459272,0,0,0,0,25.072212593876372,0,1.270941652224148],[64.19491525423729,30.15536723163842,0.7062146892655368,0,4.02542372881356,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.9180790960451978]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

33.52percentage 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=[[43.1637519872814,19.475357710651828,0,0,0,2.861685214626391,0,0,0,0,0,0,34.49920508744038],[37.89716926632005,28.942807625649912,0,0,3.6972848064702486,3.119584055459272,0,0,0,0,25.072212593876372,0,1.270941652224148],[64.19491525423729,30.15536723163842,0.7062146892655368,0,4.02542372881356,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.9180790960451978]]

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?
BERNICE SHANTANY JAMES ROGERSSINDICATURA PROPIETARIA2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
RIGOBERTO CHAVERRI ESPINOZASINDICATURA SUPLENTE2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MARIO ALBERTO GONZALEZ GONZALEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
PAULA MARIA MONGE MURILLOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
CARLOS GIOVANNI LEITON CASASOLACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2024UNIDOS PODEMOSprincipal
ANGELLO JOSUE HERNANDEZ ARRIETACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
JOSE LUIS SOTO GONZALEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
PATRICIA BERROCAL VEGACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
DIEGO ALEJANDRO ALPIZAR PEREZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDOS PODEMOSsubstitute
OMAR ROMARIO CAMARENO CHAVESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
ISAURA UMAÑA RAMOSSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIA2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
WILBER ANTONIO SOTO MONTEROSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
RIGOBERTO CHAVERRI ESPINOZACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
PAULA MARIA MONGE MURILLOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
NARCISA MADRIGAL VASQUEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
ERIKA BADILLA MEDINACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERAL PROGRESISTAprincipal
JUAN JOSE SOTO SANCHEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MELISSA DELGADO VENEGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
KAROL JOHANNA RODRIGUEZ SEGURACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
TANNYA PAMELA ULLOA DESANTICONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERAL PROGRESISTAsubstitute
MANUELA HERNANDEZ AGUEROSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIA2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
CHRISTIAN JIMENEZ GUERREROSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MANUEL EDUARDO HERRERA GARITACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ILEANA JIMENEZ MORACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
WILBER ANTONIO SOTO MONTEROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
DAMIAN ROJAS BALTODANOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
PAOLA SALAS VEGACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
WILBER GUILLERMO JIMENEZ BRENESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MARIA LUCRECIA SOTO PEREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
DAGOBERTO FUENTES RODRIGUEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute

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. “COYOLAR — Syndic and district council — shared ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-D-ALAJUELA-OROTINA-COYOLAR. Sources: costa-rica--url-ae6cfb21525f974d8912a00e, costa-rica--url-9b0bf8940eb485b811da317e, costa-rica--url-f8a1e09c9e89a7e5e9c55114, costa-rica--Sc1df243471, costa-rica--S2e64032f90, costa-rica--Sfa91292290, costa-rica--Se112cd31c4, costa-rica--S79669f3e5d, costa-rica--S24e4dd9ff9.