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ZAPOTAL — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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ZAPOTAL — Syndic and district council — shared ballot
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ZAPOTAL — 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 23.5 points; earlier interval 33.1 points; two-interval mean 28.3 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 NACIONAL10354.79%3
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA4624.47%1
NUEVA REPÚBLICA3920.74%1

Result source · PDF page 487; district 12 · 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
FELIX ANGEL RAMIREZ SALASSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIOLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ANDREA DEL CARMEN HERNANDEZ JIMENEZSINDICATURAS SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
IRENE RAMIREZ MEZACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MAXIMINO SALAS RODRIGUEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
JUAN CARLOS FERNANDEZ SOLISCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
ANABELLE JIMENEZ JIMENEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASNUEVA REPÚBLICANoDeclaration
BEATRIZ DE LA CRUZ SEGURA GONZALEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
JEINER JIMENEZ JIMENEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
RAFAEL ANGEL SALAS RODRIGUEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
RAFAEL GERARDO JIMENEZ RODRIGUEZCONCEJALÍAS 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 NACIONAL9648.24%4
NUEVA REPÚBLICA5628.14%0
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA3015.08%1
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA157.54%0
INTEGRACIÓN NACIONAL21.01%0

Result source · Sheet 4.30; district 12 · 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
MAXIMINO SALAS RODRIGUEZSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ROVIN MARISOL HERNANDEZ FERNANDEZSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
SONIA ZUMBADO MADRIGALCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
JEINER JIMENEZ JIMENEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
YORLENE MARIA BADILLA RODRIGUEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MARISOL DE LOS ANGELES JIMENEZ MONTEROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)ACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
JORGE ADRIAN SEGURA VEGACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
CARMEN LIDIA JIMENEZ SALASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MIGUEL ANGEL SALAS RODRIGUEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
ALVIN MAURICIO SOTO CAMBRONEROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration
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 NACIONAL11055.84%4
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA5829.44%1
NUEVA GENERACIÓN2010.15%0
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA73.55%0
FRENTE AMPLIO21.02%0

Result source · Sheet 4.30; district 12 · 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
MAXIMINO SALAS RODRIGUEZSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MARISOL DE LOS ANGELES JIMENEZ MONTEROSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
YORLENE FERNANDEZ CHAVESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MYNOR JESUS SEGURA GONZALEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
LEIDY MARIA SALAS LOBOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
RAUL HERNANDEZ BARRANTESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)ACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
GREIVIN GERARDO JIMENEZ CAMACHOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
JUANITA LUZ VARELA SOTOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
GIOVANNI BADILLA MORALESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
ANA CECILIA JIMENEZ JIMENEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration

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