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LLANOS DE SANTA LUCÍA — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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Costa Rica · LLANOS DE SANTA LUCÍA / CARTAGO · other · Syndic and district council — shared ballotCR-D-CARTAGO-PARAISO-LLANOS-DE-SANTA-LUCIA

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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
LLANOS DE SANTA LUCÍA / CARTAGO
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-4b5f8724af6b255cf7aa3e5e
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

  • UNIDOS PODEMOS61.5%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL12.6%
  • LIBERAL PROGRESISTA5.3%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA4.0%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO3.9%
  • ACTUEMOS YA3.5%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO3.3%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA2.8%
  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN1.7%
  • PUEBLO SOBERANO1.3%
Results for event-3df1c82483623a8bfd9a6ecf
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20242,83461.5%4Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202458212.6%1Recorded
LIBERAL PROGRESISTAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20242455.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241864%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241793.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACTUEMOS YAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241603.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241523.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241272.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024801.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PUEBLO SOBERANOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024601.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • ACCESIBILIDAD SIN EXCLUSIÓN43.9%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO11.1%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL10.8%
  • ALIANZA DEMÓCRATA CRISTIANA7.4%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL5.8%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA3.9%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA3.3%
  • ACTUEMOS YA3.2%
  • INTEGRACIÓN NACIONAL3.1%
  • LIBERAL PROGRESISTA2.7%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS2.4%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA1.5%
  • VERDE ECOLOGISTA1.1%
Results for event-1058acf5d525161839940d7b
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
ACCESIBILIDAD SIN EXCLUSIÓNcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201,68643.9%5Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202042511.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202041510.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ALIANZA DEMÓCRATA CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202847.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202245.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201483.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201263.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACTUEMOS YAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201233.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201183.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
LIBERAL PROGRESISTAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201022.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020912.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020581.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
VERDE ECOLOGISTAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020431.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • ACCESIBILIDAD SIN EXCLUSIÓN28.7%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL18.7%
  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN11.9%
  • VERDE11.2%
  • ALIANZA DEMÓCRATA CRISTIANA9.9%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA6.2%
  • MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO5.1%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO3.3%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA2.4%
  • RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSE1.6%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO1.1%
Results for event-76c47771b0e553d28e8d1102
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
ACCESIBILIDAD SIN EXCLUSIÓNcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161,04728.7%3Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201668418.7%1Recorded
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201643311.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
VERDEcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201640711.2%1Recorded
ALIANZA DEMÓCRATA CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20163639.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20162256.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161875.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161193.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016862.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSEcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016581.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016401.1%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=48.903365906623236, oldest_gap=9.947930939983557, previous_gap=32.81290658339839

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

63.81percentage 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=[[12.63843648208469,4.039087947882736,0,3.3007600434310533,0,2.757871878393051,0,0,0,3.8870792616720955,5.320304017372421,0,68.05646036916394],[10.798855061150142,3.8511579495186052,3.278688524590164,11.059068436117617,5.828779599271402,1.5092375748113454,0,3.0705178246161853,43.871975019516,0,2.654176424668228,0,14.077543585740308],[18.74486160591943,6.166072896684023,2.356810084954782,3.2611674431351054,0,0,5.124691696355166,0,28.692792545902986,1.0961907371882709,0,0,34.55741298986023]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

36.96percentage 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=[[12.63843648208469,4.039087947882736,0,3.3007600434310533,0,2.757871878393051,0,0,0,3.8870792616720955,5.320304017372421,0,68.05646036916394],[10.798855061150142,3.8511579495186052,3.278688524590164,11.059068436117617,5.828779599271402,1.5092375748113454,0,3.0705178246161853,43.871975019516,0,2.654176424668228,0,14.077543585740308],[18.74486160591943,6.166072896684023,2.356810084954782,3.2611674431351054,0,0,5.124691696355166,0,28.692792545902986,1.0961907371882709,0,0,34.55741298986023]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

50.38percentage 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=[[12.63843648208469,4.039087947882736,0,3.3007600434310533,0,2.757871878393051,0,0,0,3.8870792616720955,5.320304017372421,0,68.05646036916394],[10.798855061150142,3.8511579495186052,3.278688524590164,11.059068436117617,5.828779599271402,1.5092375748113454,0,3.0705178246161853,43.871975019516,0,2.654176424668228,0,14.077543585740308],[18.74486160591943,6.166072896684023,2.356810084954782,3.2611674431351054,0,0,5.124691696355166,0,28.692792545902986,1.0961907371882709,0,0,34.55741298986023]]

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?
JOSUE PABLO MATA RIVERASINDICATURAS PROPIETARIO2024UNIDOS PODEMOSprincipal
XENIA MARCELA SANCHEZ ROJASSINDICATURAS SUPLENTE2024UNIDOS PODEMOSsubstitute
RANDALL MAURICIO HERNANDEZ GRANADOSCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDOS PODEMOSprincipal
SONIA YORLENI PACHECO RAMIREZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDOS PODEMOSprincipal
MIGUEL ANTONIO CERDAS SOLISCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDOS PODEMOSprincipal
ENMANUEL SOLANO JIMENEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
EDWIN EDUARDO VALVERDE VINDASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDOS PODEMOSsubstitute
HEILEN NATALIA MARTINEZ LOAIZACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDOS PODEMOSsubstitute
JOHAN STIVEN ORTEGA ARAYACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDOS PODEMOSsubstitute
TOMAS ALONSO BARRANTES SANCHEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
JAIME ANDRES COTO ESPINOZASÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2020ACCESIBILIDAD SIN EXCLUSIÓNprincipal
JAQUELINE MONGE VINDASSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2020ACCESIBILIDAD SIN EXCLUSIÓNsubstitute
MARCO ANTONIO PORTILLA NAVARROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020ACCESIBILIDAD SIN EXCLUSIÓNprincipal
MARLENE MATA MADRIGALCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020ACCESIBILIDAD SIN EXCLUSIÓNprincipal
JOSE LEONARDO DURAN LOPEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020ACCESIBILIDAD SIN EXCLUSIÓNprincipal
JASMIN CASCANTE MONTENEGROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020ACCESIBILIDAD SIN EXCLUSIÓNprincipal
DARLING IVANNIA ZAMBRANA PORTUGUEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020ACCESIBILIDAD SIN EXCLUSIÓNsubstitute
WILLIAM GABRIEL VARGAS MADRIZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020ACCESIBILIDAD SIN EXCLUSIÓNsubstitute
ANA VIRGINIA SOLANO MEZACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020ACCESIBILIDAD SIN EXCLUSIÓNsubstitute
ANDREY DAVID RAMOS BONILLACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020ACCESIBILIDAD SIN EXCLUSIÓNsubstitute
MICHAELL ALVAREZ QUIROSSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2016ACCESIBILIDAD SIN EXCLUSIÓNprincipal
MAGALY BRENES PICADOSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2016ACCESIBILIDAD SIN EXCLUSIÓNsubstitute
JORGE ALBERTO OTAROLA FONSECACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016ACCESIBILIDAD SIN EXCLUSIÓNprincipal
MARTA EUGENIA FONSECA SOJOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016ACCESIBILIDAD SIN EXCLUSIÓNprincipal
JUNNIOR JOSE ALVARADO CASTILLOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ANA VIRGINIA SOLANO MEZACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016VERDEprincipal
MILENI MARCELA PEREIRA AGUILARCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016ACCESIBILIDAD SIN EXCLUSIÓNsubstitute
JOSE FRANCISCO SILES PORTUGUEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016ACCESIBILIDAD SIN EXCLUSIÓNsubstitute
YAHAIRA VANNESA SOLANO SANCHOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
JOSE RAFAEL FERNANDEZ REDONDOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016VERDEsubstitute

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. “LLANOS DE SANTA LUCÍA — Syndic and district council — shared ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-D-CARTAGO-PARAISO-LLANOS-DE-SANTA-LUCIA. Sources: costa-rica--url-ae6cfb21525f974d8912a00e, costa-rica--url-9b0bf8940eb485b811da317e, costa-rica--url-f8a1e09c9e89a7e5e9c55114, costa-rica--Sc1df243471, costa-rica--S93fa715864, costa-rica--Sfa91292290, costa-rica--S91006f80ae, costa-rica--S79669f3e5d, costa-rica--S7997e9e5a0.