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ALFARO — Syndic and district council — shared ballot
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ALFARO — 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: 0.0/100. 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 43.1 points; earlier interval 31.2 points; two-interval mean 37.1 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
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL72144.75%3
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA53733.33%1
NUEVA REPÚBLICA26316.33%1
RECICLADORES Y VISIONARIOS905.59%0

Result source · PDF page 486; district 9 · 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
OSCAR MARIO ESQUIVEL MONGESINDICATURAS PROPIETARIOLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
XIOMARA REBECA VILLALOBOS RAMIREZSINDICATURAS SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
ANA IRIS RAMIREZ SALAZARCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
RODOLFO MORALES VARGASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MIGUEL JESUS SOLANO RAMIREZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
DARIANA DANIELA VARGAS PICADOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASNUEVA REPÚBLICANoDeclaration
MAGALY VEGA LOPEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
GEOVANNY GERARDO CASTRO MEJIASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
NATALIA MARIA HERNANDEZ PICADOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
JULIO CESAR PIÑEIRO ROJASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESNUEVA REPÚBLICAYesDeclaration
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
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL1,11567.37%5
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA1408.46%0
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA1207.25%0
INTEGRACIÓN NACIONAL1036.22%0
FRENTE AMPLIO895.38%0
NUEVA REPÚBLICA613.69%0
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL271.63%0

Result source · Sheet 4.30; district 9 · 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
ANA IRIS RAMIREZ SALAZARSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIALIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
OSCAR MARIO ESQUIVEL MONGESÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
YESENIA MARIA ARROYO GONZALEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
EDWIN VEGA SALASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
LAURA MARIA JIMENEZ SALAZARCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
WILBERT SALAS MORACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
GEOVANNY GERARDO CASTRO MEJIASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
EMERITA AZOFEIFA VEGACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
STUART EMILIO ZUÑIGA PEREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
SANDRA VANESSA JIMENEZ RODRIGUEZCONCEJALES 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
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL68853.37%3
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA19114.82%1
NUEVA GENERACIÓN15812.26%1
LIGA RAMONENSE644.97%0
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA614.73%0
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO544.19%0
FRENTE AMPLIO453.49%0
RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSE282.17%0

Result source · Sheet 4.30; district 9 · 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
RAUL GERARDO MARIN VARGASSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ANA IRIS RAMIREZ SALAZARSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
OSCAR MARIO ESQUIVEL MONGECONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
DENIA MARIA MONTERO VARELACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MARIA GERARDINA PIÑEIRO CASTROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)ACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
RAYBIN ANTONIO MOLINA SALASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)NUEVA GENERACIÓNNoDeclaration
SANTIAGO MIRANDA SALAZARCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MARIA AUXILIADORA QUIROS HERRERACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
NATASHA MARIA VILLALOBOS CASTROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration
ALEJANDRA VANESSA MORENO PEREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESNUEVA GENERACIÓNYesDeclaration

Snapshot 13 September 2026. Fixed election window 8 September 2026 to 8 March 2028. Record CR-D-ALAJUELA-SAN-RAMON-ALFARO.