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ESQUIPULAS — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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ESQUIPULAS — Syndic and district council — shared ballot
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ESQUIPULAS — 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: 81.5/100. 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 61.1 points; earlier interval 34.5 points; two-interval mean 47.8 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
PALMARES PRIMERO63432.90%3
LIBERAL PROGRESISTA62032.17%2
UNIDOS PODEMOS22911.88%0
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL1336.90%0
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA1155.97%0
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO1045.40%0
FRENTE AMPLIO703.63%0
NUEVA REPÚBLICA221.14%0

Result source · PDF page 494; district 6 · 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
ROMAN CASTILLO SIBAJASINDICATURA PROPIETARIOPALMARES PRIMERONoDeclaration
JULIA MARIA TORUÑO TORUÑOSINDICATURA SUPLENTEPALMARES PRIMEROYesDeclaration
KARLA MARIA MADRIGAL GOMEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)PALMARES PRIMERONoDeclaration
ORLANDO ROJAS VARELACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)PALMARES PRIMERONoDeclaration
FRESY ANDREA RAMIREZ QUIELCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERAL PROGRESISTANoDeclaration
EDUARDO JOSUE MADRIZ BLANCOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERAL PROGRESISTANoDeclaration
LILIANA MARIA MASIS REYESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESPALMARES PRIMEROYesDeclaration
OLGER SOLIS CASTROCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESPALMARES PRIMEROYesDeclaration
GUISSELL MARIA MONTERO CASTROCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERAL PROGRESISTAYesDeclaration
GUSTAVO ALONSO ROJAS HERNANDEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERAL PROGRESISTAYesDeclaration
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 CRISTIANA56829.94%1
ALIANZA POR PALMARES46224.35%2
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL44123.25%2
NUEVA REPÚBLICA1548.12%0
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA1326.96%0
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL1296.80%0
NUEVA GENERACIÓN110.58%0

Result source · Sheet 4.35; district 6 · 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
GERARDO RUIZ SOLISSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
MARIA ANDREA CORRALES QUESADASÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTEUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
SARA MARIA GOMEZ VILLALOBOSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)ALIANZA POR PALMARESNoDeclaration; inferred party-code join
LUIS DIEGO CAMPOS RAMIREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)ALIANZA POR PALMARESNoDeclaration; inferred party-code join
MARIA MAGDALENA FERNANDEZ LEDEZMACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ROY GERARDO NUÑEZ SOLISCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
SHIRLEY CHAVARRIA BENAVIDESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESALIANZA POR PALMARESYesDeclaration; inferred party-code join
LUIS MARIANO NUÑEZ ESQUIVELCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESALIANZA POR PALMARESYesDeclaration; inferred party-code join
MARCIA MURILLO VARGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
GERARDO MARVIN ROJAS VARELACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
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
ALIANZA POR PALMARES62837.16%3
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL35921.24%1
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA29517.46%1
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA20912.37%0
FRENTE AMPLIO724.26%0
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO462.72%0
RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSE362.13%0
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO261.54%0
ACCESIBILIDAD SIN EXCLUSIÓN191.12%0

Result source · Sheet 4.35; district 6 · 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
LUIS EMILIO SOLANO BADILLASÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOALIANZA POR PALMARESNoDeclaration
YORLENE MARIA DELGADO MORASÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTEALIANZA POR PALMARESYesDeclaration
CHRISTIAN GOMEZ VARGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)ALIANZA POR PALMARESNoDeclaration
ANALIVE QUIROS VASQUEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)ALIANZA POR PALMARESNoDeclaration
WILFREDO SOLIS CRUZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
FULVIO CASTRO SANCHEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)ACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
WILBER MORA MENDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESALIANZA POR PALMARESYesDeclaration
MARIA ELENA CARVAJAL CASTILLOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESALIANZA POR PALMARESYesDeclaration
DAGOBERTO CHAVARRIA CALDERONCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
RODOLFO LEONARDO JIMENEZ CAMPOSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration

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