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LA FORTUNA — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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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
LA FORTUNA / GUANACASTE
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-0d263819a50d67ea58df994e
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

  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA35.8%
  • UNIÓN GUANACASTECA17.5%
  • LIBERAL PROGRESISTA16.8%
  • AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA14.8%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL14.6%
  • PUEBLO SOBERANO0.5%
Results for event-fb49043b7a287408db839cd8
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202428135.8%2Recorded
UNIÓN GUANACASTECAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202413717.5%1Recorded
LIBERAL PROGRESISTAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202413216.8%1Recorded
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202411614.8%1Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202411514.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PUEBLO SOBERANOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202440.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA33.2%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA21.1%
  • INTEGRACIÓN NACIONAL12.1%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL11.8%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS7.7%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA7.1%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL5.8%
  • UNIÓN GUANACASTECA1.3%
Results for event-02f3b7a6ab9086d80fe892a0
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202032833.2%3Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202020821.1%2Recorded
INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202011912.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202011611.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020767.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020707.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020575.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIÓN GUANACASTECAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020131.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL32.7%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA30.9%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO20.4%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA6.7%
  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN4.7%
  • MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO4.5%
Results for event-6db536218efbb738161c5383
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201626932.7%3Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201625430.9%1Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201616820.4%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016556.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016394.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016374.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

25.820–100 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=18.343949044585987, oldest_gap=1.8248175182481745, previous_gap=12.158054711246201

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

58.16percentage 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=[[14.64968152866242,35.796178343949045,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,16.81528662420382,0,32.738853503184714],[11.752786220871327,21.073961499493414,33.232016210739616,0,5.775075987841945,7.092198581560283,0,12.056737588652481,0,0,0,0,9.017223910840933],[32.72506082725061,6.690997566909975,30.900243309002434,0,0,0,4.5012165450121655,0,0,20.437956204379564,0,0,4.744525547445256]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

45.91percentage 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=[[14.64968152866242,35.796178343949045,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,16.81528662420382,0,32.738853503184714],[11.752786220871327,21.073961499493414,33.232016210739616,0,5.775075987841945,7.092198581560283,0,12.056737588652481,0,0,0,0,9.017223910840933],[32.72506082725061,6.690997566909975,30.900243309002434,0,0,0,4.5012165450121655,0,0,20.437956204379564,0,0,4.744525547445256]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

52.03percentage 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: 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=[[14.64968152866242,35.796178343949045,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,16.81528662420382,0,32.738853503184714],[11.752786220871327,21.073961499493414,33.232016210739616,0,5.775075987841945,7.092198581560283,0,12.056737588652481,0,0,0,0,9.017223910840933],[32.72506082725061,6.690997566909975,30.900243309002434,0,0,0,4.5012165450121655,0,0,20.437956204379564,0,0,4.744525547445256]]

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?
WILBER GERARDO QUESADA MOLINASINDICATURAS PROPIETARIO2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
ANA SILVIA ARCE ESQUIVELSINDICATURAS SUPLENTE2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
JUDISLAY GARCIA SIBAJACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
OSCAR RAMIREZ HERNANDEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024UNIÓN GUANACASTECAprincipal
LISBETH MORENO PERALTACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERAL PROGRESISTAprincipal
MAYNOR VARELA CHAVESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAprincipal
MAUREN GABRIELA CASTILLO RUIZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
JAVIER SOLORZANO JIMENEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIÓN GUANACASTECAsubstitute
KEINA JASIR JIMENEZ CASCANTECONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERAL PROGRESISTAsubstitute
LORENZO DAVID CHAVES PORRASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAsubstitute
MARJORIE RODRIGUEZ ELIZONDOSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIA2020ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
SANTOS MARIA QUIROS BERMUDEZSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2020ACCIÓN CIUDADANAsubstitute
ALFONSO CRUZ FERNANDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
YAMILETH DEL CARMEN GAVARRETE BRENESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
LISBETH MORENO PERALTACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
VICTOR BOLIVAR CRUZ PEREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
AIDA LIA GONZALEZ ROJASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020ACCIÓN CIUDADANAsubstitute
DUNIER ESQUIVEL GUTIERREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020ACCIÓN CIUDADANAsubstitute
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ ROJASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
KATTIA PATRICIA RUIZ QUESADACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
WENCE ESMIT HIDALGO LOPEZSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARIANITA ARCE GUTIERREZSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
JORGE OLIDER RAMOS GONZALEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ODILIE MONTOYA MORALESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
DEHIDY RUIZ ARCECONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
LISBETH MORENO PERALTACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOprincipal
VIRIA ROLDAN GONZALEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
FRANDER GONZALEZ VARGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MANUEL EMILIO MORALES MARINCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAsubstitute
ELIZABETH VARELA SANDOVALCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOsubstitute

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. “LA FORTUNA — Syndic and district council — shared ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-D-GUANACASTE-BAGACES-LA-FORTUNA. Sources: costa-rica--url-ae6cfb21525f974d8912a00e, costa-rica--url-9b0bf8940eb485b811da317e, costa-rica--url-f8a1e09c9e89a7e5e9c55114, costa-rica--Sc1df243471, costa-rica--S66f3d972a6, costa-rica--Sfa91292290, costa-rica--S34c5931014, costa-rica--S79669f3e5d, costa-rica--S59c79b58ae.