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ZAPOTE — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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ZAPOTE — Syndic and district council — shared ballot
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ZAPOTE — 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 26.4 points; earlier interval 45.4 points; two-interval mean 35.9 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 NACIONAL11450.89%3
SOMOS9040.18%2
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA208.93%0

Result source · PDF page 502; 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
BRYAN RODRIGUEZ MOYASINDICATURA PROPIETARIOLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
SONIA VALENCIANO ALPIZARSINDICATURA SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
JUAN RAMON RODRIGUEZ VARGASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
EVELYN PAOLA VALENCIANO RODRIGUEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MARIBEL ROJAS SALASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)SOMOSNoDeclaration
EDGAR ANTONIO ARGUELLO CUBILLOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)SOMOSNoDeclaration
ANTHONY JOSUE GAMBOA VALENCIANOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
BEATRIZ AVILA UGALDECONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MARIA DE LOS ANGELES ROJAS RODRIGUEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESSOMOSYesDeclaration
LUIS FRANCISCO BARQUERO RODRIGUEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESSOMOSYesDeclaration
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 NACIONAL16475.93%4
UNIDOS PODEMOS2812.96%1
NUEVA GENERACIÓN219.72%0
NUEVA REPÚBLICA31.39%0

Result source · Sheet 4.39; 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
SONIA VALENCIANO ALPIZARSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIALIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
BRYAN RODRIGUEZ MOYASÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
JUAN RAMON RODRIGUEZ VARGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
LAURA MELISSA HERNANDEZ RODRIGUEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
LUIS RICARDO PANIAGUA MIRANDACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MAUREN JOHANNA DURAN ROJASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDOS PODEMOSNoDeclaration
FRAN JOHANN CARVAJAL MIRANDACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
SILVIA ALFARO ROJASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
JOSE DANIEL PICADO PORRASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
JUAN CARLOS ROJAS CORDEROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDOS PODEMOSYesDeclaration
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 NACIONAL13054.62%4
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA6326.47%1
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO4518.91%0

Result source · Sheet 4.39; 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
LUIS RICARDO PANIAGUA MIRANDASÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
BEATRIZ AVILA UGALDESÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
YORLENI MARIA GUZMAN MUÑOZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
JORGE ARTURO RODRIGUEZ CUBILLOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
JOSELIN PAMELA RODRIGUEZ BARRERACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
EDGAR ANTONIO ARGUELLO CUBILLOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
MARVIN ARTURO ARGUELLO CUBILLOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
JULIET MARIAN GAMBOA VALENCIANOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
DANIEL ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ VARGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
JOSE DANIEL PICADO PORRASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration

Snapshot 13 September 2026. Fixed election window 8 September 2026 to 8 March 2028. Record CR-D-ALAJUELA-ZARCERO-ZAPOTE.