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LABRADOR — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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Costa Rica · LABRADOR / ALAJUELA · other · Syndic and district council — shared ballotCR-D-ALAJUELA-SAN-MATEO-LABRADOR

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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
LABRADOR / ALAJUELA
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-8bebbac6f81df12a38068e54
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

  • UNIDOS PODEMOS26.4%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL24.7%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA20.1%
  • PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICO17.1%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA10.7%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO1.0%
Results for event-dbce82a14783bbac98919129
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202413126.4%2Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202412324.7%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202410020.1%1Recorded
PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20248517.1%1Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20245310.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202451%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA48.9%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL43.6%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA6.0%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS1.5%
Results for event-62f256b5a768093b3dd2ab0e
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202028548.9%3Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202025443.6%2Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020356%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202091.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL56.7%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO12.3%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA11.6%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA8.2%
  • MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO6.8%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO4.4%
Results for event-c3a63e66d0c70f5fa6094d4f
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201626856.7%3Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20165812.3%1Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20165511.6%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016398.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016326.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016214.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

650–100 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=1.6096579476861201, oldest_gap=44.397463002114165, previous_gap=5.317324185248715

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

47.58percentage 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=[[24.748490945674043,20.120724346076457,0,0,0,10.663983903420522,0,0,0,1.0060362173038229,0,17.10261569416499,26.358148893360163],[43.56775300171527,48.88507718696398,0,0,0,6.003430531732419,0,0,0,0,0,0,1.5437392795883362],[56.65961945031712,8.24524312896406,11.627906976744185,4.439746300211416,0,0,6.765327695560254,0,0,12.26215644820296,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

48.19percentage 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=[[24.748490945674043,20.120724346076457,0,0,0,10.663983903420522,0,0,0,1.0060362173038229,0,17.10261569416499,26.358148893360163],[43.56775300171527,48.88507718696398,0,0,0,6.003430531732419,0,0,0,0,0,0,1.5437392795883362],[56.65961945031712,8.24524312896406,11.627906976744185,4.439746300211416,0,0,6.765327695560254,0,0,12.26215644820296,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

47.89percentage 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=[[24.748490945674043,20.120724346076457,0,0,0,10.663983903420522,0,0,0,1.0060362173038229,0,17.10261569416499,26.358148893360163],[43.56775300171527,48.88507718696398,0,0,0,6.003430531732419,0,0,0,0,0,0,1.5437392795883362],[56.65961945031712,8.24524312896406,11.627906976744185,4.439746300211416,0,0,6.765327695560254,0,0,12.26215644820296,0,0,0]]

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?
JOSE MANUEL ACUÑA ULATESINDICATURA PROPIETARIO2024UNIDOS PODEMOSprincipal
MARIA DEL MILAGRO QUIROS STELLERSINDICATURA SUPLENTE2024UNIDOS PODEMOSsubstitute
MARCO ACUÑA FLORESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2024UNIDOS PODEMOSprincipal
ALISSON GUADALUPE SOLORZANO VARGASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
JOSUE ALBERTO VARGAS PORTUGUEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
EVARISTO ALPIZAR VARGASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2024PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICOprincipal
BRYAN JOSUE RUIZ CAMPOSCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDOS PODEMOSsubstitute
MARIA ISOLINA MORA ULATECONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
LUIS ALBERTO JIMENEZ SOLORZANOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
JOSE DAVID CAMPOS BRENESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICOsubstitute
LORENA FERRETO VILLALOBOSSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIA2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
LUIS ALBERTO JIMENEZ SOLORZANOSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
JOSE DAVID CAMPOS BRENESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
LUIS ENRIQUE AMAYA CAMPOSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
DORA MARIA VENEGAS UMAÑACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ANDRES ALEJANDRO ROJAS GUZMANCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
KAROL TATIANA ESQUIVEL DELGADOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
LUIS ALBERTO PARAJELES LOPEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
CLARA ACUÑA CESPEDESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MARTA CALDERON PARAJELESSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIA2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
VICTOR JULIO NUÑEZ SALASSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ESTEBAN CAMPOS ULATECONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARIA ACUÑA CESPEDESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
LAURA CHAN MONTEROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOprincipal
JOSE DANIEL SOLORZANO MORACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
CLARA ACUÑA CESPEDESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MAINOR ESQUIVEL ALVARADOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
LEONARDO ALPIZAR NARANJOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOsubstitute
JOSE MANUEL ACUÑA ULATECONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAsubstitute

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. “LABRADOR — Syndic and district council — shared ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-D-ALAJUELA-SAN-MATEO-LABRADOR. Sources: costa-rica--url-ae6cfb21525f974d8912a00e, costa-rica--url-9b0bf8940eb485b811da317e, costa-rica--url-f8a1e09c9e89a7e5e9c55114, costa-rica--Sc1df243471, costa-rica--Sd0f291679f, costa-rica--Sfa91292290, costa-rica--S1c89820e7a, costa-rica--S79669f3e5d, costa-rica--Sa126c8cb1f.