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GUADALUPE — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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Costa Rica · GUADALUPE / ALAJUELA · other · Syndic and district council — shared ballotCR-D-ALAJUELA-ZARCERO-GUADALUPE

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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
GUADALUPE / ALAJUELA
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-16ff2c844253395fad75ba0d
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

  • SOMOS49.3%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL36.2%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA11.2%
  • AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA3.4%
Results for event-8939ac741584ae5f57045b4a
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
SOMOScosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202413249.3%2Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20249736.2%3Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20243011.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202493.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL60.5%
  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN22.1%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS11.0%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA4.6%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL1.9%
Results for event-f03bc6b7d835f408e85e16c9
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202015960.5%4Recorded
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20205822.1%1Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202911%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020124.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202051.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL52.0%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA43.4%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO4.7%
Results for event-deefdabd5841b47b49b3ae23
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201614552%3Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201612143.4%2Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016134.7%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=13.059701492537314, oldest_gap=8.602150537634408, previous_gap=38.40304182509506

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

26.16percentage 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=[[36.19402985074627,0,0,0,0,11.194029850746269,0,0,0,0,0,0,52.61194029850746],[60.456273764258555,0,0,0,1.9011406844106464,4.562737642585551,0,0,0,0,0,0,33.07984790874525],[51.971326164874554,43.369175627240146,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,4.659498207885305,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

48.03percentage 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=[[36.19402985074627,0,0,0,0,11.194029850746269,0,0,0,0,0,0,52.61194029850746],[60.456273764258555,0,0,0,1.9011406844106464,4.562737642585551,0,0,0,0,0,0,33.07984790874525],[51.971326164874554,43.369175627240146,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,4.659498207885305,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

37.1percentage 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=[[36.19402985074627,0,0,0,0,11.194029850746269,0,0,0,0,0,0,52.61194029850746],[60.456273764258555,0,0,0,1.9011406844106464,4.562737642585551,0,0,0,0,0,0,33.07984790874525],[51.971326164874554,43.369175627240146,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,4.659498207885305,0,0,0]]

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?
MARIA NINFA ROJAS SALASSINDICATURA PROPIETARIA2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ALEXANDER RODRIGUEZ RODRIGUEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2024SOMOSprincipal
EVELYN DE LOS ANGELES ROBLES ARCECONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2024SOMOSprincipal
VICENTE PAUL ROJAS ALPIZARCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ROXANA MARIA ACUÑA ARCECONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
JOSE MARIO MORALES ROJASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024SOMOSsubstitute
MARGARITA SIBAJA ROJASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024SOMOSsubstitute
ELADIO MARIN VARGASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MARIA GABRIELA CASTRO ALVARADOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ROSA ELENA VALENCIANO ROJASSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIA2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
JOSE MARIO MORALES ROJASSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
VICENTE PAUL ROJAS ALPIZARCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
EMMA MARIA ALPIZAR MORALESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
LUIS ALCIDES ALPIZAR VALENCIANOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
KATIA MAYELA MIRANDA CASTROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020NUEVA GENERACIÓNprincipal
JESSICA MARIA VARGAS VARGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
OLGER VINICIO ROJAS ARRIETACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ANA MARLENE ROJAS VILLALOBOSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
LUIS ALCIDES ALPIZAR VALENCIANOSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARLENE ROJAS DURANSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
EDDY ALBERTO ROBLES MEDINACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
XINIA MARIA MONTERO BARBOZACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARJORIE MARIN SALAZARCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
EDGARDO ROJAS JIMENEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
JOSE MARIO MORALES ROJASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
VIRGITA MORALES MORACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
IVETTE ROJAS ROJASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
EDWIN VARGAS VARGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute

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. “GUADALUPE — Syndic and district council — shared ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-D-ALAJUELA-ZARCERO-GUADALUPE. Sources: costa-rica--url-ae6cfb21525f974d8912a00e, costa-rica--url-9b0bf8940eb485b811da317e, costa-rica--url-f8a1e09c9e89a7e5e9c55114, costa-rica--Sc1df243471, costa-rica--S571bdf8474, costa-rica--Sfa91292290, costa-rica--Sbc3e82267a, costa-rica--S79669f3e5d, costa-rica--S1e5fccad98.