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ÁNGELES — 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 47.2 points; earlier interval 52.0 points; two-interval mean 49.6 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
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA73449.29%3
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL47131.63%2
NUEVA REPÚBLICA18312.29%0
RECICLADORES Y VISIONARIOS1016.78%0

Result source · PDF page 486; district 8 · 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 CARLOS ROBLES CHAVESSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIOUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
VERA BEATRIZ VILLALOBOS ALVAREZSINDICATURAS SUPLENTEUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
RUTH MARY ARAYA PEREZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
MANUEL ALEJANDRO BARBOZA ROJASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
MARCOS VARGAS CAMPOSCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MARIA LILIA FALLAS MOYACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
KAROL GALEANO MOYACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
MARCOS VINICIO ROJAS BOLAÑOSCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
JORGE ALEJANDRO ARIAS RAMIREZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
GISELLE CRISTINA RAMIREZ REYESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
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 NACIONAL72455.27%4
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA21016.03%1
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA14310.92%0
INTEGRACIÓN NACIONAL1269.62%0
NUEVA REPÚBLICA675.11%0
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL403.05%0

Result source · Sheet 4.30; district 8 · 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
MARCOS VARGAS CAMPOSSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MARIA ISABEL ALVARADO GUERREROSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
SILVIA ELENA HUERTAS LOPEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
JUAN LUIS ARIAS CASTROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
BIANCA GERARDINA MARIN CAMBRONEROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
LIDIER FERNANDEZ CALDERONCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
MARTA ANTONIA ZUÑIGA MATAMOROSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
ALVARO BALTODANO VALVERDECONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MARIA ROSA RAMIREZ VILLALOBOSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
BELISA DEL CARMEN VILLALOBOS SOLORZANOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
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 NACIONAL56231.86%3
NUEVA GENERACIÓN29516.72%1
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA24814.06%1
LIGA RAMONENSE22712.87%0
FRENTE AMPLIO18610.54%0
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA935.27%0
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO895.05%0
RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSE643.63%0

Result source · Sheet 4.30; district 8 · 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
MARCOS VARGAS CAMPOSSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MARIETH DEL CARMEN ARIAS PICADOSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
JOSE MARIO ARAYA PEREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
SILVIA ELENA HUERTAS LOPEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
XINIA MARIA ROJAS VARGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)NUEVA GENERACIÓNNoDeclaration
NEFTALI PICADO HERRERACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)ACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
SONIA MARIA CAMPOS UGALDECONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
SERGIO MONGE SANDICONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
ANDREA DEL CARMEN CASTRO CASTROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration

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