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RÍO NARANJO — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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Costa Rica · RÍO NARANJO / GUANACASTE · other · Syndic and district council — shared ballotCR-D-GUANACASTE-BAGACES-RIO-NARANJO

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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
RÍO NARANJO / GUANACASTE
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-8f6faf37eafe0b95621eb564
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

  • LIBERAL PROGRESISTA47.7%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA18.3%
  • UNIÓN GUANACASTECA18.0%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL13.5%
  • AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA1.5%
  • PUEBLO SOBERANO0.9%
Results for event-a55cec4d00287ae52d9b5e15
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERAL PROGRESISTAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202415647.7%3Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20246018.3%1Recorded
UNIÓN GUANACASTECAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20245918%1Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20244413.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202451.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PUEBLO SOBERANOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202430.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • INTEGRACIÓN NACIONAL46.0%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL30.2%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA17.0%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL3.2%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS2.5%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA1.1%
Results for event-a04f3c1c51567744a754ba46
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202020346%3Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202013330.2%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20207517%1Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020143.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020112.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202051.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL43.1%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA39.8%
  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN11.6%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO1.9%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA1.9%
  • MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO1.7%
Results for event-660b9f6d9784dd5175faa52f
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201615643.1%3Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201614439.8%2Recorded
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20164211.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201671.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201671.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201661.7%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=29.357798165137616, oldest_gap=3.3149171270718227, previous_gap=15.873015873015873

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

67.04percentage 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=[[13.45565749235474,18.34862385321101,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,47.706422018348626,0,20.489296636085626],[30.158730158730158,17.006802721088434,0,0,3.1746031746031744,1.1337868480725624,0,46.03174603174603,0,0,0,0,2.494331065759637],[43.0939226519337,1.9337016574585635,39.77900552486188,0,0,0,1.6574585635359116,0,0,1.9337016574585635,0,0,11.602209944751381]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

65.41percentage 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=[[13.45565749235474,18.34862385321101,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,47.706422018348626,0,20.489296636085626],[30.158730158730158,17.006802721088434,0,0,3.1746031746031744,1.1337868480725624,0,46.03174603174603,0,0,0,0,2.494331065759637],[43.0939226519337,1.9337016574585635,39.77900552486188,0,0,0,1.6574585635359116,0,0,1.9337016574585635,0,0,11.602209944751381]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

66.23percentage 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=[[13.45565749235474,18.34862385321101,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,47.706422018348626,0,20.489296636085626],[30.158730158730158,17.006802721088434,0,0,3.1746031746031744,1.1337868480725624,0,46.03174603174603,0,0,0,0,2.494331065759637],[43.0939226519337,1.9337016574585635,39.77900552486188,0,0,0,1.6574585635359116,0,0,1.9337016574585635,0,0,11.602209944751381]]

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?
MARYLEN VILLAFUERTE RODRIGUEZSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIA2024LIBERAL PROGRESISTAprincipal
MARCOS VEGA CASTILLOSINDICATURAS SUPLENTE2024LIBERAL PROGRESISTAsubstitute
KATERINE EUGENIA VILLALOBOS BOLANDICONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERAL PROGRESISTAprincipal
WELMER ROBERTO CHAVES VILLALOBOSCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERAL PROGRESISTAprincipal
JUAN PABLO SANCHEZ RUIZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
JOSE JAVIER MATARRITA RODRIGUEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024UNIÓN GUANACASTECAprincipal
KATERIN DALLAN RUIZ CHAVESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERAL PROGRESISTAsubstitute
KEYNER CONTRERAS MENACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERAL PROGRESISTAsubstitute
JOSE ALBERTO CAMACHO FALLASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
AARON MONTERO CALDERONCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIÓN GUANACASTECAsubstitute
MARYLEN VILLAFUERTE RODRIGUEZSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIA2020INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
JOSUE SOTO GARCIASÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2020INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MARCOS SOTO CHAVARRIACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
YADIRA SEGURA ZUÑIGACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ALEXANDER CENTENO MURILLOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
GABRIEL ROJAS RUIZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
MIGUEL ANGEL SILES CHONGCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MARJORIE ROJAS RUIZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
CAROLINA ROJAS CARRANZACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
LAURA ULATE ALVAREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
XINIA LETICIA TREMINIO PEREZSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIA2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
LUCAS GONZALEZ MONTOYASÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
DIEGO ARSENIO ROJAS CARRANZACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ESTELA MARIA FALLAS ROJASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ELIETH ROJAS VILLEGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
ALVARO VARELA PEREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
ALEXANDER CENTENO MURILLOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ANGIE CALDERON MARINCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
FANNY GABRIELA AGUIRRE GUTIERREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAsubstitute
JUAN FRANCISCO DIAZ CORRALESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAsubstitute

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. “RÍO NARANJO — Syndic and district council — shared ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-D-GUANACASTE-BAGACES-RIO-NARANJO. 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.