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AGUAS ZARCAS — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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Costa Rica · AGUAS ZARCAS / ALAJUELA · other · Syndic and district council — shared ballotCR-D-ALAJUELA-SAN-CARLOS-AGUAS-ZARCAS

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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
AGUAS ZARCAS / ALAJUELA
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-ff360dc8b03636d6425e329c
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

  • AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA24.5%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL23.5%
  • LIBERAL PROGRESISTA20.3%
  • PROGRESER12.6%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA5.8%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS4.5%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA3.8%
  • AGENDA DEMOCRÁTICA NACIONAL2.8%
  • PUEBLO SOBERANO2.2%
Results for event-a7aaacb62c806eb225516d31
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241,23224.5%1Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241,18023.5%2Recorded
LIBERAL PROGRESISTAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241,02220.3%1Recorded
PROGRESERcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202463412.6%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20242915.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20242284.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241913.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
AGENDA DEMOCRÁTICA NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241422.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PUEBLO SOBERANOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241112.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL48.6%
  • PROGRESER13.4%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL9.2%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA6.6%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA6.2%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA4.6%
  • ALIANZA DEMÓCRATA CRISTIANA4.4%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO4.3%
  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN1.5%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS1.3%
Results for event-621a0f19040ee97544a72d5a
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202,36948.6%4Recorded
PROGRESERcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202065213.4%1Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20204469.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20203196.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20203026.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202244.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ALIANZA DEMÓCRATA CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202144.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202104.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020711.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020631.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL44.2%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA23.6%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA18.3%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO5.6%
  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN3.4%
  • RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSE2.2%
  • ALIANZA SANCARLEÑA1.7%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO1.2%
Results for event-1ef2ee7c22e5bc5f1014dfc0
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161,98444.2%3Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161,05923.6%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201682218.3%1Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20162535.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161513.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSEcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016972.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ALIANZA SANCARLEÑAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016751.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016521.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

33.720–100 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=1.033591731266153, oldest_gap=20.58758068105943, previous_gap=35.256673511293634

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

46.43percentage 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=[[23.454581594116476,5.784138342277878,0,0,0,3.79646193599682,0,0,0,0,20.314052872192406,0,46.65076525541642],[48.64476386036961,6.201232032854209,6.550308008213553,0,9.158110882956878,4.59958932238193,0,0,0,4.312114989733059,0,0,20.53388090349076],[44.15757845537503,18.295125751168484,23.569997774315603,1.1573558869352325,0,0,0,0,0,5.630981526819497,0,0,7.188960605386157]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

31.59percentage 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=[[23.454581594116476,5.784138342277878,0,0,0,3.79646193599682,0,0,0,0,20.314052872192406,0,46.65076525541642],[48.64476386036961,6.201232032854209,6.550308008213553,0,9.158110882956878,4.59958932238193,0,0,0,4.312114989733059,0,0,20.53388090349076],[44.15757845537503,18.295125751168484,23.569997774315603,1.1573558869352325,0,0,0,0,0,5.630981526819497,0,0,7.188960605386157]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

39.01percentage 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=[[23.454581594116476,5.784138342277878,0,0,0,3.79646193599682,0,0,0,0,20.314052872192406,0,46.65076525541642],[48.64476386036961,6.201232032854209,6.550308008213553,0,9.158110882956878,4.59958932238193,0,0,0,4.312114989733059,0,0,20.53388090349076],[44.15757845537503,18.295125751168484,23.569997774315603,1.1573558869352325,0,0,0,0,0,5.630981526819497,0,0,7.188960605386157]]

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?
LUZANA MARIA MARADIAGA JIMENEZSINDICATURA PROPIETARIA2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
LUIS ANGEL HIDALGO ROJASSINDICATURA SUPLENTE2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
SILVIO DANIEL NICARAGUA RAMIREZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2024AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAprincipal
GERMAN GERARDO MENA CABEZASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
HECTOR ROJAS RODRIGUEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2024LIBERAL PROGRESISTAprincipal
SENIA SALAS AGUILARCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2024PROGRESERprincipal
FERNANDO HUMBERTO BRENES ESQUIVELCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAsubstitute
MANUEL ENRIQUE MORERA CAMBRONEROCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
CARLOS MAURICIO ACUÑA MORALESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERAL PROGRESISTAsubstitute
ROSA MARIA MORALES BARRANTESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024PROGRESERsubstitute
LETICIA CAMPOS GUZMANSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIA2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARINO CARVAJAL VILLALOBOSSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
YESENIA MARIA MORALES VARGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
LUIS ANGEL HIDALGO ROJASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
EVA VIRGINIA ROMERO MONTOYACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ROSA MARIA MORALES BARRANTESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020PROGRESERprincipal
KATTY CHAVES MUÑOZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
JOSE ENRIQUE MENDEZ GARROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
YENDRY MARIA VARGAS CARRANZACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
GERARDO ENRIQUE ROJAS UGALDECONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020PROGRESERsubstitute
JUAN CARLOS BRENES ESQUIVELSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
LETICIA CAMPOS GUZMANSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
YESENIA MARIA MORALES VARGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
JOSE ARNOLDO CUEVAS SOTOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARIA ISABEL RODRIGUEZ VARGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
SONIA MARIA RETANA CARRILLOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
MANUEL ENRIQUE MORERA CAMBRONEROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ETELGIVE ROJAS QUESADACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
LUIS EMILIO SIBAJA ESQUIVELCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAsubstitute
YEUDY GLEEN MURILLO ARAYACONCEJALES 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. “AGUAS ZARCAS — Syndic and district council — shared ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-D-ALAJUELA-SAN-CARLOS-AGUAS-ZARCAS. Sources: costa-rica--url-ae6cfb21525f974d8912a00e, costa-rica--url-9b0bf8940eb485b811da317e, costa-rica--url-f8a1e09c9e89a7e5e9c55114, costa-rica--Sc1df243471, costa-rica--Sff41c3cddb, costa-rica--Sfa91292290, costa-rica--S4891bb2efd, costa-rica--S79669f3e5d, costa-rica--S284ac4df53.