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TUIS — Syndic and district council — shared ballot
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TUIS — 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: 54.5/100. 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 44.8 points; earlier interval 46.6 points; two-interval mean 45.7 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 NACIONAL21931.38%3
NUEVA GENERACIÓN19527.94%0
UNIDOS PODEMOS14420.63%1
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA8812.61%1
TURRIALBA PRIMERO527.45%0

Result source · PDF page 516; district 7 · 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
CRISIA MILENA VALVERDE SALMERONSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIALIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
FREDDY CHACON MARTINEZSINDICATURAS SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
JUAN CARLOS TORRES ANGULOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ALMI MONZERRATH VALVERDE SALMERONCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ISABEL QUIROS QUESADACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIDOS PODEMOSNoDeclaration
ELI RODOLFO MARTINEZ GUZMANCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
EMILIO GERARDO ESCOBEDO LOPEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
ALEJANDRA DE LOS ANGELES AGUILAR ORTIZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDOS PODEMOSYesDeclaration
FANNY RAQUEL IBARRA MENDEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
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
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA25935.67%3
NUEVA GENERACIÓN12617.36%2
ALIANZA DEMÓCRATA CRISTIANA719.78%0
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL679.23%0
NUEVA REPÚBLICA669.09%0
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA628.54%0
TURRIALBA PRIMERO486.61%0
UNIDOS PODEMOS212.89%0
VERDE ECOLOGISTA60.83%0

Result source · Sheet 4.49; district 7 · 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
JORGE PEREZ ROMANSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
FELICIA MENDEZ ORTEGASÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTEACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration
DINA LORENA CALVO CHACONCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)ACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
GERMAN GUERRERO ESQUIVELCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)ACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
KATTIA GAMBOA IBARRACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)NUEVA GENERACIÓNNoDeclaration
MELVIN MAURICIO TORRES MONGECONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)NUEVA GENERACIÓNNoDeclaration
JOSE MANUEL ARTAVIA DELGADOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration
JENNY YOLANDA CALDERON VARGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration
JOSE ANGEL ALBAN FONSECACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESNUEVA GENERACIÓNYesDeclaration
HILARY MENDEZ MARTINEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESNUEVA GENERACIÓNYesDeclaration
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
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA25937.76%2
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL15322.30%1
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA12618.37%1
FRENTE AMPLIO11616.91%1
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO324.66%0

Result source · Sheet 4.48; district 7 · 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
JORGE PEREZ ROMANSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
MARIA DE LOS ANGELES SOLIS MADRIGALSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTEACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration
RAFAEL ARAYA BRENESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)ACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
ABRITH NUREIS VILLALOBOS BRENESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MARIA CASANDRA CALVO PEREIRACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
DIANA MARIA BEJARANO CALVOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)FRENTE AMPLIONoDeclaration
MARIA EUGENIA RAMIREZ VEGACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration
SANTIAGO LOPEZ GUTIERREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MIGUEL ANGEL BARBOZA VARGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration

Snapshot 13 September 2026. Fixed election window 8 September 2026 to 8 March 2028. Record CR-D-CARTAGO-TURRIALBA-TUIS.