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PEÑAS BLANCAS — Syndic and district council — shared ballot
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PEÑAS BLANCAS — 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 17.3 points; earlier interval 47.0 points; two-interval mean 32.1 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 NACIONAL1,72658.75%3
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA1,00334.14%2
NUEVA REPÚBLICA1354.59%0
NUESTRO PUEBLO742.52%0

Result source · PDF page 487; district 13 · 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
YULIETH PAOLA LOPEZ VILLALOBOSSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIALIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MIGUEL ANGEL MORALES BARRANTESSINDICATURAS SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MICHAEL ORLANDO BARAHONA MARINCONCEJALÍAS MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
GUISELLE CASTILLO VARGASCONCEJALÍAS MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
SARA SOLERA VILLARREALCONCEJALÍAS MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
JASON GERARDO ROJAS CHAVESCONCEJALÍAS MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
ROGELIO SOLANO DELGADOCONCEJALÍAS MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
ROCIO TREJOS SANTAMARIACONCEJALÍAS MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
SHEILA CASTRO RAMIREZCONCEJALÍAS MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
ALONSO JOSE CHAVES CORDEROCONCEJALÍAS MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
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 NACIONAL1,47549.02%3
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA80026.59%2
NUEVA REPÚBLICA2448.11%0
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA2257.48%0
NUEVA GENERACIÓN1906.31%0
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL511.69%0
FRENTE AMPLIO240.80%0

Result source · Sheet 4.30; district 13 · 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
WILBERTH CAMPOS CRUZSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
YULIETH PAOLA LOPEZ VILLALOBOSSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
GUISELLE CASTILLO VARGASCONCEJALES MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
JOSE ANGEL RODRIGUEZ LEDEZMACONCEJALES MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
SARA SOLERA VILLARREALCONCEJALES MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
ALVARO ENRIQUE VARGAS ULATECONCEJALES MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
MICHAEL ORLANDO BARAHONA MARINCONCEJALES MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
EVADINA VARELA CASTROCONCEJALES MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MARIA ISABEL ROJAS BRENESCONCEJALES MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
MAINOR ROJAS ZUÑIGACONCEJALES MUNICIPALES 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 NACIONAL79332.01%2
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO63625.68%1
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA37815.26%1
NUEVA GENERACIÓN35914.49%1
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA1596.42%0
FRENTE AMPLIO1526.14%0

Result source · Sheet 4.30; district 13 · 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
WILBERTH CAMPOS CRUZSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
GUISELLE CASTILLO VARGASSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
JOSE ANGEL RODRIGUEZ LEDEZMACONCEJALES MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
NOILIM ALEJANDRA GONZALEZ BARRANTESCONCEJALES MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANONoDeclaration
FLOR MARIA JARQUIN ZARATECONCEJALES MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)ACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
YULIETH PAOLA LOPEZ VILLALOBOSCONCEJALES MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)NUEVA GENERACIÓNNoDeclaration
ROCIO TREJOS SANTAMARIACONCEJALES MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
JORGE ANTONIO ZUÑIGA SOLISCONCEJALES MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESREPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOYesDeclaration
CARMEN LIDIA MOYA QUESADACONCEJALES MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration
IRENE GONZALEZ ARCECONCEJALES MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESNUEVA GENERACIÓNYesDeclaration

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