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DOS RÍOS — Syndic and district council — shared ballot
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DOS RÍOS — 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 34.7 points; earlier interval 55.5 points; two-interval mean 45.1 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
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA47363.24%4
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL19425.94%1
PUEBLO SOBERANO334.41%0
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA253.34%0
NUEVA REPÚBLICA172.27%0
UNIDOS PODEMOS60.80%0

Result source · PDF page 505; district 6 · 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
JULIO CESAR VILCHEZ HERNANDEZSINDICATURA PROPIETARIOUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
LISBETH NAVARRETE RODRIGUEZSINDICATURA SUPLENTEUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
ROGELIO CORTES CARMONACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
JEANNETTE CORTES MATARRITACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
FRANCISCO CARMONA CORTESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
MARIA DOLORES MENDOZA MARTINEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
NICOLE SHAKIRA OBANDO PONCECONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
PETRONA MORA CERDASCONCEJALÍAS 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 NACIONAL24137.60%3
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA23837.13%2
NUEVA REPÚBLICA7611.86%0
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO446.86%0
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL426.55%0

Result source · Sheet 4.41; district 6 · 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
GERARDO QUESADA QUESADASÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MELIDA MIRANDA ROMEROSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
YAMBERLIN LIDEY CORTES ARAGONCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
JOSE ANGEL TRAÑA CASTILLOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MILADY MAGALLY ARAYA QUESADACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
CARLOS LUIS GOMEZ CASTILLOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
TOMASA ALEMAN VICTORCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
EVER MAURICIO RAMIREZ ARAYACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MARIA QUINTANILLA MORAGACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
RONALD FERNANDO VALDELOMAR SANCHEZCONCEJALES 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 NACIONAL30349.27%3
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO21134.31%1
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA8513.82%1
FRENTE AMPLIO162.60%0

Result source · Sheet 4.41; district 6 · 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
JOSE ELIAS CALDERON VEGASÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
RAQUEL CASCANTE ALANISSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
ERICK GERARDO MORERA CASTROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ESTELA GARCIA JIRONCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ROSIBEL GRIO SANDOVALCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANONoDeclaration
JUAN ALBERTO CHACON LORIACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)ACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
LEIDI PARRALES MIRANDACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
FLORINDO CARRANZA SALASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
BLANCA ROSA OBANDO PEREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESREPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOYesDeclaration
PETRONA CORTES CHEVEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration

Snapshot 13 September 2026. Fixed election window 8 September 2026 to 8 March 2028. Record CR-D-ALAJUELA-UPALA-DOS-RIOS.