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HACIENDA VIEJA — Syndic and district council — shared ballot
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HACIENDA VIEJA — 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: 69.2/100. 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 35.9 points; earlier interval 41.3 points; two-interval mean 38.6 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
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA16038.65%3
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL13432.37%1
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA6816.43%1
UNIDOS PODEMOS4510.87%0
NUEVA REPÚBLICA71.69%0

Result source · PDF page 496; district 3 · 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
GUSTAVO ADOLFO HERNANDEZ ROJASSINDICATURA PROPIETARIOUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
CELIA AGUILAR SALAZARSINDICATURA SUPLENTEUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
LIDIER DE LOS ANGELES HERNANDEZ MONTEROCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
MARIANELA HERNANDEZ ROJASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
BRYAN JESUS VARGAS CAMPOSCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
LAURA CRISTINA SOLIS ROJASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDANoDeclaration
JOSE ENRIQUE ABARCA SOLORZANOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
DANILO GERARDO LARA QUESADACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
CHARLOTTE CORDERO JIMENEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESAQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAYesDeclaration
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 NACIONAL17134.00%3
LIBERAL PROGRESISTA13627.04%1
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA10821.47%1
NUEVA REPÚBLICA458.95%0
NUEVA GENERACIÓN438.55%0

Result source · Sheet 4.37; district 3 · 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
LORENA MARIA ROJAS CHINCHILLASÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIALIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ORLANDO GERARDO CHAVES SANDOVALSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
RODOLFO ANTONIO VARGAS MESENCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
EVA MARIA VARGAS ROJASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
LIDIER DE LOS ANGELES HERNANDEZ MONTEROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERAL PROGRESISTANoDeclaration
JOHAN ALBERTO CASTILLO CORDOBACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
GRACIELA JIMENA CAMPOS ARIASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MINOR CASTRO GONZALEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
YESENIA ENRIQUEZ RODRIGUEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERAL PROGRESISTAYesDeclaration
GUSTAVO ADOLFO HERNANDEZ ROJASCONCEJALES 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 CRISTIANA19548.15%3
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL18345.19%2
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL143.46%0
RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSE133.21%0

Result source · Sheet 4.37; district 3 · 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
LIDIER DE LOS ANGELES HERNANDEZ MONTEROSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
ANGELA MARIA MORA MORALESSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTEUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
GIOVANNI FLORES MESENCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
MAYELA ARIAS HERNANDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
ORLANDO GERARDO CHAVES SANDOVALCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
NORMA MARIA ROJAS BADILLACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
JOSERIC GUTIERREZ ARIASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
ESTEBAN GERARDO GONZALEZ CASTILLOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
RODOLFO ANTONIO VARGAS MESENCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
IRINA MARIA CASTILLO GONZALEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration

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