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TURRIALBA — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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Costa Rica · TURRIALBA / CARTAGO · other · Syndic and district council — shared ballotCR-D-CARTAGO-TURRIALBA-TURRIALBA

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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
TURRIALBA / CARTAGO
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-360cd7c619ec99737288cf5a
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

  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN49.8%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA14.1%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL11.2%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS9.7%
  • TURRIALBA PRIMERO6.6%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO2.8%
  • AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA2.4%
  • PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICO2.1%
  • ACTUEMOS YA0.7%
  • LIBERAL PROGRESISTA0.6%
Results for event-55fc60f99eb7f8cc6436841e
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20244,45849.8%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241,25914.1%1Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241,00411.2%1Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20248729.7%1Recorded
TURRIALBA PRIMEROcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20245936.6%1Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20242492.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20242182.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241842.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACTUEMOS YAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024620.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
LIBERAL PROGRESISTAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024560.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA29.4%
  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN25.4%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL12.1%
  • ALIANZA DEMÓCRATA CRISTIANA9.0%
  • TURRIALBA PRIMERO8.8%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA7.8%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS2.9%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA2.8%
  • VERDE ECOLOGISTA1.8%
Results for event-e15300296e72f72d1aecab05
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202,60329.4%3Recorded
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202,24925.4%1Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201,06712.1%1Recorded
ALIANZA DEMÓCRATA CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20207999%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
TURRIALBA PRIMEROcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20207788.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20206917.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202572.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202492.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
VERDE ECOLOGISTAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201601.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA37.4%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL20.4%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA15.8%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO10.0%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO7.9%
  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN6.0%
  • ALIANZA DEMÓCRATA CRISTIANA2.5%
Results for event-f23fed7862eade4947cf19d3
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20163,12137.4%3Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161,70420.4%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161,32315.8%1Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201683810%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20166567.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20165006%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ALIANZA DEMÓCRATA CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20162062.5%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=35.72305974316025, oldest_gap=16.974125539051272, previous_gap=3.9986445272788878

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

33.06percentage 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=[[11.211613623673925,14.059184812953657,0,2.780569514237856,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.6253489670575098,2.054718034617532,69.26856504745953],[12.052411611882977,7.805263752400316,29.402462442110018,0,0,2.8126058963063367,0,0,0,0,0,0,47.927256297300346],[20.41207474844274,15.84810733109727,37.38620028749401,10.03833253473886,0,0,0,0,0,7.858169621466219,0,0,8.457115476760901]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

42.28percentage 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=[[11.211613623673925,14.059184812953657,0,2.780569514237856,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.6253489670575098,2.054718034617532,69.26856504745953],[12.052411611882977,7.805263752400316,29.402462442110018,0,0,2.8126058963063367,0,0,0,0,0,0,47.927256297300346],[20.41207474844274,15.84810733109727,37.38620028749401,10.03833253473886,0,0,0,0,0,7.858169621466219,0,0,8.457115476760901]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

37.67percentage 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=[[11.211613623673925,14.059184812953657,0,2.780569514237856,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.6253489670575098,2.054718034617532,69.26856504745953],[12.052411611882977,7.805263752400316,29.402462442110018,0,0,2.8126058963063367,0,0,0,0,0,0,47.927256297300346],[20.41207474844274,15.84810733109727,37.38620028749401,10.03833253473886,0,0,0,0,0,7.858169621466219,0,0,8.457115476760901]]

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?
NANCY ZIDEY RAMIREZ ALVAREZSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIA2024NUEVA GENERACIÓNprincipal
FERNANDO ASDRUBAL SANDOVAL ULATESINDICATURAS SUPLENTE2024NUEVA GENERACIÓNsubstitute
ANA PATRICIA MIRANDA FUENTESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
JOSE PABLO RODRIGUEZ PICADOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
GAUDY DENNIS RIVASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDOS PODEMOSprincipal
YAMILLETT CERDAS MARTINEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024TURRIALBA PRIMEROprincipal
ABEL GERARDO ZAMORA GUTIERREZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
JORGE SEAS CASTROCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
YOISSE MUÑOZ CAMPOSCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDOS PODEMOSsubstitute
ESTEFANIE DE LOS ANGELES COTO HERNANDEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024TURRIALBA PRIMEROsubstitute
ALBA BUITRAGO ARIASSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIA2020ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
EDUARDO SANABRIA QUIROSSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2020ACCIÓN CIUDADANAsubstitute
ISAIAS GRANADOS SOJOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
LUCILA BARRANTES RIVASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
JONATHAN NUÑEZ GONZALEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020NUEVA GENERACIÓNprincipal
JOHANNA MARIA SANCHEZ CALDERONCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
LILLIAM MARTINEZ FALLASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020ACCIÓN CIUDADANAsubstitute
JOSE MIGUEL TAPIA FERNANDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020ACCIÓN CIUDADANAsubstitute
CYNTHIA BRENES SANCHEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020NUEVA GENERACIÓNsubstitute
ADRIAN DEL JESUS BARRANTES AGUILARCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ALBA BUITRAGO ARIASSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIA2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
ISAAC ROBERTO SALAZAR CHAVARRIASÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAsubstitute
ISAIAS GRANADOS SOJOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
LYNN CATALINA SANDOVAL ELLISCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
NIDIA MARIN RAMIREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ANDREA SAENZ SOLANOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
ANIA PEREIRA SALGUEROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAsubstitute
FERNANDO ASDRUBAL SANDOVAL ULATECONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAsubstitute
MARISOL ARRIETA SOLANOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
JUAN CARLOS QUIROS SANCHOCONCEJALES 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. “TURRIALBA — Syndic and district council — shared ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-D-CARTAGO-TURRIALBA-TURRIALBA. Sources: costa-rica--url-ae6cfb21525f974d8912a00e, costa-rica--url-9b0bf8940eb485b811da317e, costa-rica--url-f8a1e09c9e89a7e5e9c55114, costa-rica--Sc1df243471, costa-rica--S532a27c276, costa-rica--Sfa91292290, costa-rica--S2eb65ab6ac, costa-rica--S79669f3e5d, costa-rica--S45740b7ad4.