Skip to observatory content

Partial researchResearch snapshot 2026-09-13. Evidence gaps remain; see Coverage for requirements.

Center forDigital DemocracyElection database
Back to the Center

Office briefing

SARCHÍ SUR — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Costa Rica · SARCHÍ SUR / ALAJUELA · other · Syndic and district council — shared ballotCR-D-ALAJUELA-SARCHI-SARCHI-SUR

Read the complete original research briefing

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
SARCHÍ SUR / ALAJUELA
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-18f2aae6e8643d5a3e527f05
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

  • ALIANZA POR SARCHÍ48.9%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA29.6%
  • SOMOS7.7%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL7.4%
  • PUEBLO SOBERANO3.8%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA2.6%
Results for event-5fd6e0b92891e5ec2680ee86
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
ALIANZA POR SARCHÍcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202493548.9%3Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202456729.6%2Recorded
SOMOScosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241487.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241427.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PUEBLO SOBERANOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024723.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024492.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • ALIANZA POR SARCHÍ21.8%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA20.6%
  • SOMOS SARCHÍ19.7%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA12.2%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL11.7%
  • FUERZA SARCHISEÑA7.4%
  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN6.7%
Results for event-ed9bb602a01715a69a27e9d2
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
ALIANZA POR SARCHÍcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202039921.8%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202037820.6%1Recorded
SOMOS SARCHÍcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202036119.7%1Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202022312.2%1Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202021511.7%1Recorded
FUERZA SARCHISEÑAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201367.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201226.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA38.5%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL33.4%
  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN21.2%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA6.8%
Results for event-f8905d895ffbc2c316864d80
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201666538.5%3Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201657733.4%2Recorded
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201636621.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161186.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

38.020–100 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=19.236800836382642, oldest_gap=5.098493626882963, previous_gap=1.1450381679389317

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

13.9percentage 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=[[7.422895974908521,29.639309984317826,0,0,0,2.561421850496602,0,0,0,0,0,0,60.37637219027705],[11.723009814612867,20.610687022900763,0,0,0,12.159214830970557,0,0,0,0,0,0,55.50708833151581],[33.42989571263036,38.528389339513325,6.836616454229432,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,21.205098493626885]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

46.46percentage 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=[[7.422895974908521,29.639309984317826,0,0,0,2.561421850496602,0,0,0,0,0,0,60.37637219027705],[11.723009814612867,20.610687022900763,0,0,0,12.159214830970557,0,0,0,0,0,0,55.50708833151581],[33.42989571263036,38.528389339513325,6.836616454229432,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,21.205098493626885]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

30.18percentage 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=[[7.422895974908521,29.639309984317826,0,0,0,2.561421850496602,0,0,0,0,0,0,60.37637219027705],[11.723009814612867,20.610687022900763,0,0,0,12.159214830970557,0,0,0,0,0,0,55.50708833151581],[33.42989571263036,38.528389339513325,6.836616454229432,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,21.205098493626885]]

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?
ENAR YARITZA VEGA CONEJOSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIA2024ALIANZA POR SARCHÍprincipal
LUIS MANUEL VARGAS SUAREZSINDICATURAS SUPLENTE2024ALIANZA POR SARCHÍsubstitute
ESTEBAN ALFARO SOLISCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2024ALIANZA POR SARCHÍprincipal
ARGERY RODRIGUEZ ARAYACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2024ALIANZA POR SARCHÍprincipal
SINDY PATRICIA BOGANTES ZAMORACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
JESUS BARBOZA PICADOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
GREIVIN FRANCISCO AGUILERA UGALDECONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024ALIANZA POR SARCHÍsubstitute
CINDI MARITZA JIMENEZ QUESADACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024ALIANZA POR SARCHÍsubstitute
ANYI PATRICIA ESPINOZA DURANCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
CARLOS GERARDO CHACON PEREZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
ENAR YARITZA VEGA CONEJOSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIA2020ALIANZA POR SARCHÍprincipal
MAURICIO ALPIZAR CASTROSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2020ALIANZA POR SARCHÍsubstitute
SOFIA MARIA CASTILLO BARRANTESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
FRANCISCO JAVIER MURILLO FERNANDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020SOMOS SARCHÍprincipal
RONALD CHAVERRI SANTAMARIACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020NUEVA REPÚBLICAprincipal
VINICIO PANIAGUA ARGUELLOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
LUIS ADOLFO ALFARO JIMENEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
MARTA ELENA MORERA CASTROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020SOMOS SARCHÍsubstitute
MARIA ISABEL PORTUGUEZ VARGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020NUEVA REPÚBLICAsubstitute
VALERY MARIA BURGOS SALAZARCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
SINDY PATRICIA BOGANTES ZAMORASÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIA2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
RONALD CHAVERRI SANTAMARIASÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
GERARDO ALBAR JIMENEZ CASTROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
MARIA ANGELINA ROJAS FERNANDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
MARLENE MOLINA BARQUEROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ALFONSO PEREZ ZAMORACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARIA ISABEL MOLINA CALVOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
JUAN MARTIN ROJAS ZAMORACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
MELVIN ROJAS MURILLOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
YARITZA ELENA ALFARO JIMENEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute

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. “SARCHÍ SUR — Syndic and district council — shared ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-D-ALAJUELA-SARCHI-SARCHI-SUR. Sources: costa-rica--url-ae6cfb21525f974d8912a00e, costa-rica--url-9b0bf8940eb485b811da317e, costa-rica--url-f8a1e09c9e89a7e5e9c55114, costa-rica--Sc1df243471, costa-rica--S270f75c403, costa-rica--Sfa91292290, costa-rica--S615d00c2cf, costa-rica--S79669f3e5d, costa-rica--S32fbc52855.