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ALFARO — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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

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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
ALFARO / ALAJUELA
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-7ab9159b68e1e4ff21f2d846
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

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL44.8%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA33.3%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA16.3%
  • RECICLADORES Y VISIONARIOS5.6%
Results for event-8c27210219d9ba2c048d2c4c
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202472144.8%3Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202453733.3%1Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202426316.3%1Recorded
RECICLADORES Y VISIONARIOScosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024905.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL67.4%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA8.5%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA7.3%
  • INTEGRACIÓN NACIONAL6.2%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO5.4%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA3.7%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL1.6%
Results for event-249b2b1e3ad2578ad4aaa616
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201,11567.4%5Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201408.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201207.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201036.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020895.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020613.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020271.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL53.4%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA14.8%
  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN12.3%
  • LIGA RAMONENSE5.0%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA4.7%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO4.2%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO3.5%
  • RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSE2.2%
Results for event-4feee0ddf39fc569b0589b30
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201668853.4%3Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201619114.8%1Recorded
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201615812.3%1Recorded
LIGA RAMONENSEcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016645%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016614.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016544.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016453.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSEcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016282.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

0 (recorded zero)0–100 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=11.421477343265053, oldest_gap=38.55702094647013, previous_gap=58.91238670694864

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

43.1percentage 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=[[44.75481067659839,33.333333333333336,0,0,0,16.32526381129733,0,0,0,0,0,0,5.58659217877095],[67.37160120845921,8.459214501510575,7.2507552870090635,5.377643504531722,1.6314199395770392,3.685800604229607,0,6.22356495468278,0,0,0,0,0],[53.374709076803725,4.7323506594259115,14.817688130333591,3.491078355314197,0,0,0,0,0,4.189294026377037,0,0,19.394879751745542]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

31.15percentage 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=[[44.75481067659839,33.333333333333336,0,0,0,16.32526381129733,0,0,0,0,0,0,5.58659217877095],[67.37160120845921,8.459214501510575,7.2507552870090635,5.377643504531722,1.6314199395770392,3.685800604229607,0,6.22356495468278,0,0,0,0,0],[53.374709076803725,4.7323506594259115,14.817688130333591,3.491078355314197,0,0,0,0,0,4.189294026377037,0,0,19.394879751745542]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

37.13percentage 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=[[44.75481067659839,33.333333333333336,0,0,0,16.32526381129733,0,0,0,0,0,0,5.58659217877095],[67.37160120845921,8.459214501510575,7.2507552870090635,5.377643504531722,1.6314199395770392,3.685800604229607,0,6.22356495468278,0,0,0,0,0],[53.374709076803725,4.7323506594259115,14.817688130333591,3.491078355314197,0,0,0,0,0,4.189294026377037,0,0,19.394879751745542]]

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?
OSCAR MARIO ESQUIVEL MONGESINDICATURAS PROPIETARIO2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
XIOMARA REBECA VILLALOBOS RAMIREZSINDICATURAS SUPLENTE2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ANA IRIS RAMIREZ SALAZARCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
RODOLFO MORALES VARGASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MIGUEL JESUS SOLANO RAMIREZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
DARIANA DANIELA VARGAS PICADOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024NUEVA REPÚBLICAprincipal
MAGALY VEGA LOPEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
GEOVANNY GERARDO CASTRO MEJIASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
NATALIA MARIA HERNANDEZ PICADOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
JULIO CESAR PIÑEIRO ROJASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024NUEVA REPÚBLICAsubstitute
ANA IRIS RAMIREZ SALAZARSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIA2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
OSCAR MARIO ESQUIVEL MONGESÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
YESENIA MARIA ARROYO GONZALEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
EDWIN VEGA SALASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
LAURA MARIA JIMENEZ SALAZARCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
WILBERT SALAS MORACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
GEOVANNY GERARDO CASTRO MEJIASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
EMERITA AZOFEIFA VEGACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
STUART EMILIO ZUÑIGA PEREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
SANDRA VANESSA JIMENEZ RODRIGUEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
RAUL GERARDO MARIN VARGASSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ANA IRIS RAMIREZ SALAZARSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
OSCAR MARIO ESQUIVEL MONGECONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
DENIA MARIA MONTERO VARELACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARIA GERARDINA PIÑEIRO CASTROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
RAYBIN ANTONIO MOLINA SALASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016NUEVA GENERACIÓNprincipal
SANTIAGO MIRANDA SALAZARCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MARIA AUXILIADORA QUIROS HERRERACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
NATASHA MARIA VILLALOBOS CASTROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAsubstitute
ALEJANDRA VANESSA MORENO PEREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016NUEVA GENERACIÓNsubstitute

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. “ALFARO — Syndic and district council — shared ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-D-ALAJUELA-SAN-RAMON-ALFARO. Sources: costa-rica--url-ae6cfb21525f974d8912a00e, costa-rica--url-9b0bf8940eb485b811da317e, costa-rica--url-f8a1e09c9e89a7e5e9c55114, costa-rica--Sc1df243471, costa-rica--Sfc698ffe74, costa-rica--Sfa91292290, costa-rica--Sbe144212a4, costa-rica--S79669f3e5d, costa-rica--S7a26c9447a.