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OROTINA — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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

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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
OROTINA / ALAJUELA
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-a6876af4e3d9b131e3d7a01a
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 CRISTIANA40.8%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL34.6%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS12.3%
  • AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA10.8%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA1.5%
Results for event-2aab49045c86e939b0bd8fae
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241,26840.8%3Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241,07734.6%2Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202438312.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202433610.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024471.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL36.6%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA34.6%
  • LIBERAL PROGRESISTA23.9%
  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN2.6%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA2.2%
Results for event-933cb41967a49f06bb60fe48
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201,50536.6%3Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201,42334.6%1Recorded
LIBERAL PROGRESISTAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202098423.9%1Recorded
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201062.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020922.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL51.8%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA40.6%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL3.3%
  • RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSE1.8%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO1.3%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA1.1%
Results for event-18adfc38bc65dbceb3a149d7
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161,76451.8%3Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161,38340.6%2Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161143.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSEcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016611.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016451.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016391.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

730–100 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=6.139504982320801, oldest_gap=11.186142102172639, previous_gap=1.9951338199513415

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

26.67percentage 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=[[34.619093539054965,40.75859852137577,0,0,0,1.5107682417229187,0,0,0,0,0,0,23.111539697846354],[36.61800486618005,34.62287104622871,0,0,0,2.238442822384428,0,0,0,0,23.94160583941606,0,2.579075425790754],[51.790957134468584,40.604815032295946,1.1450381679389312,0,3.3470346447445682,0,0,0,0,1.3211978860833822,0,0,1.7909571344685848]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

26.97percentage 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=[[34.619093539054965,40.75859852137577,0,0,0,1.5107682417229187,0,0,0,0,0,0,23.111539697846354],[36.61800486618005,34.62287104622871,0,0,0,2.238442822384428,0,0,0,0,23.94160583941606,0,2.579075425790754],[51.790957134468584,40.604815032295946,1.1450381679389312,0,3.3470346447445682,0,0,0,0,1.3211978860833822,0,0,1.7909571344685848]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

26.82percentage 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=[[34.619093539054965,40.75859852137577,0,0,0,1.5107682417229187,0,0,0,0,0,0,23.111539697846354],[36.61800486618005,34.62287104622871,0,0,0,2.238442822384428,0,0,0,0,23.94160583941606,0,2.579075425790754],[51.790957134468584,40.604815032295946,1.1450381679389312,0,3.3470346447445682,0,0,0,0,1.3211978860833822,0,0,1.7909571344685848]]

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?
ANA BEATRIZ UMAÑA GONZALEZSINDICATURA PROPIETARIA2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
EDUARDO ANDRES SANDI LEONSINDICATURA SUPLENTE2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
MARIA JOSE DELGADO UMAÑACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
LUIS ALBERTO ABARCA GUTIERREZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
KELLY VIVIANA SALAZAR AVILACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
VICTOR JULIO FLORES ROJASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
GETTDWY MARGOT UMAÑA GONZALEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
RONNY JAVIER UMAÑA GONZALEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
LINA MARCELA VASQUEZ MUÑOZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
JOSE LEONARDO VASQUEZ GRANADOSCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
JOSUE DANIEL CORDERO AGUEROSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARIA DEL ROSARIO HERRERA MENASÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
JOCKSAN SALAZAR JIMENEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
GRISET FABIOLA BRENES CAMPOSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARIA CARLINA FERNANDEZ MORENOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
ALONSO VENEGAS ARIASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERAL PROGRESISTAprincipal
LILLIAM DANIELA CHACON SALASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ALEX JOHAN JIMENEZ CHAVESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
LIDIETH VILLARREAL JIMENEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
KAROL VIVIANA MOLINA ROJASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERAL PROGRESISTAsubstitute
DEILY PATRICIA VARGAS CASTROSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIA2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
CARLOS FABIAN ESPINOZA AGUEROSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
HAROLD JESUS ESQUIVEL RAMIREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
SHARON PAMELA TENORIO ELIZONDOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
BERNAL CORDOBA VARGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
SINDY MORA FERNANDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
ANDREA MONGE MURILLOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
VICTOR JULIO FLORES ROJASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MARIBEL MARIN ARCECONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
HERNAN ROJAS MURILLOCONCEJALES 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. “OROTINA — Syndic and district council — shared ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-D-ALAJUELA-OROTINA-OROTINA. 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.