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SANTIAGO — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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

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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
SANTIAGO / ALAJUELA
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-e5021991219610ac9064f9e8
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

  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA48.3%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL39.2%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA8.3%
  • RECICLADORES Y VISIONARIOS4.2%
Results for event-7cd6d8b34b64917e7351922d
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202484748.3%3Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202468839.2%2Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241458.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RECICLADORES Y VISIONARIOScosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024734.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL68.3%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA12.7%
  • INTEGRACIÓN NACIONAL6.2%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA5.6%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA5.4%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL1.8%
Results for event-236238b58bb5d8486072eada
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201,01968.3%4Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202019012.7%1Recorded
INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020936.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020835.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020815.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020271.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL51.7%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA16.6%
  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN14.3%
  • LIGA RAMONENSE5.4%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO3.8%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO3.7%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA3.7%
  • RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSE0.7%
Results for event-86fe641ecb124877214f3ac3
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201662851.7%4Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201620216.6%1Recorded
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201617314.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
LIGA RAMONENSEcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016665.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016463.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016453.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016453.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSEcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201690.7%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=9.070165430690246, oldest_gap=35.09060955518946, previous_gap=55.52578700602813

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

49.77percentage 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=[[39.247005134055904,48.31717056474615,0,0,0,8.271534512264688,0,0,0,0,0,0,4.1642897889332575],[68.25184192900201,5.425318151373074,12.726054922973878,0,1.8084393837910249,5.5592766242464835,0,6.2290689886135295,0,0,0,0,0],[51.72981878088962,3.7067545304777596,16.639209225700164,3.7891268533772653,0,0,0,0,0,3.7067545304777596,0,0,20.42833607907743]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

31.84percentage 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=[[39.247005134055904,48.31717056474615,0,0,0,8.271534512264688,0,0,0,0,0,0,4.1642897889332575],[68.25184192900201,5.425318151373074,12.726054922973878,0,1.8084393837910249,5.5592766242464835,0,6.2290689886135295,0,0,0,0,0],[51.72981878088962,3.7067545304777596,16.639209225700164,3.7891268533772653,0,0,0,0,0,3.7067545304777596,0,0,20.42833607907743]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

40.8percentage 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=[[39.247005134055904,48.31717056474615,0,0,0,8.271534512264688,0,0,0,0,0,0,4.1642897889332575],[68.25184192900201,5.425318151373074,12.726054922973878,0,1.8084393837910249,5.5592766242464835,0,6.2290689886135295,0,0,0,0,0],[51.72981878088962,3.7067545304777596,16.639209225700164,3.7891268533772653,0,0,0,0,0,3.7067545304777596,0,0,20.42833607907743]]

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?
SANDRA ELENA ARIAS MUÑOZSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIA2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
RONALD MAURICIO CRUZ RAMIREZSINDICATURAS SUPLENTE2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
ERICK SERGIO SALAS VARGASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
MERY LAUREN CASTRO CORRALESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
GERARDO DEL CARMEN VARGAS RAMIREZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
FLOR MARIA RAMIREZ SALASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ROMAN ADOLFO ARIAS SANCHOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
MARIA ALEXANDRA GAMBOA SANCHOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
JOSE MIGUEL ALVARADO CRUZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MELIN VILLALOBOS PORRASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
EFRAIN JARA CHAVARRIASÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
HANNIA MARIA ARIAS SANCHOSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
JORGE LUIS CONEJO JIMENEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MAGDALENA HERNANDEZ FERNANDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
RANDALL FRANCISCO BARRANTES CHAVESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARIA DEL MILAGRO MIRANDA ARIASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
MICHAEL VINICIO VARGAS JIMENEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MARIA EUGENIA ARGUEDAS GONZALEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
BRAULIO SALAS BARRANTESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ELADIO CASTRO RAMIREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020ACCIÓN CIUDADANAsubstitute
CARLOS GREIVIN ROJAS SALASSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ADA LUZ RAMIREZ JARASÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
GIOVANNY JIMENEZ CHAVESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MAGDALENA HERNANDEZ FERNANDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
GERARDO VARGAS RAMIREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
CARLOS LUIS CUBERO JIMENEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
FLOR MARIA RAMIREZ SALASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ABELINO SOLORZANO VARGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ILEANA CHAVES SANCHOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MARIA TERESA SANDOVAL RAMIREZCONCEJALES 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. “SANTIAGO — Syndic and district council — shared ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-D-ALAJUELA-SAN-RAMON-SANTIAGO. 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.