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RÍO NARANJO — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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RÍO NARANJO — Syndic and district council — shared ballot
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RÍO NARANJO — 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: 0.0/100. 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 67.0 points; earlier interval 65.4 points; two-interval mean 66.2 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
LIBERAL PROGRESISTA15647.71%3
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA6018.35%1
UNIÓN GUANACASTECA5918.04%1
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL4413.46%0
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA51.53%0
PUEBLO SOBERANO30.92%0

Result source · PDF page 538; district 4 · 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
MARYLEN VILLAFUERTE RODRIGUEZSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIALIBERAL PROGRESISTANoDeclaration
MARCOS VEGA CASTILLOSINDICATURAS SUPLENTELIBERAL PROGRESISTAYesDeclaration
KATERINE EUGENIA VILLALOBOS BOLANDICONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASLIBERAL PROGRESISTANoDeclaration
WELMER ROBERTO CHAVES VILLALOBOSCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASLIBERAL PROGRESISTANoDeclaration
JUAN PABLO SANCHEZ RUIZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
JOSE JAVIER MATARRITA RODRIGUEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIÓN GUANACASTECANoDeclaration
KATERIN DALLAN RUIZ CHAVESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERAL PROGRESISTAYesDeclaration
KEYNER CONTRERAS MENACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERAL PROGRESISTAYesDeclaration
JOSE ALBERTO CAMACHO FALLASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
AARON MONTERO CALDERONCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIÓN GUANACASTECAYesDeclaration
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
INTEGRACIÓN NACIONAL20346.03%3
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL13330.16%1
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA7517.01%1
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL143.17%0
UNIDOS PODEMOS112.49%0
NUEVA REPÚBLICA51.13%0

Result source · Sheet 4.66; district 4 · 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
MARYLEN VILLAFUERTE RODRIGUEZSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIAINTEGRACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
JOSUE SOTO GARCIASÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTEINTEGRACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MARCOS SOTO CHAVARRIACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
YADIRA SEGURA ZUÑIGACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ALEXANDER CENTENO MURILLOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
GABRIEL ROJAS RUIZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
MIGUEL ANGEL SILES CHONGCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESINTEGRACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MARJORIE ROJAS RUIZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESINTEGRACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
CAROLINA ROJAS CARRANZACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
LAURA ULATE ALVAREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
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
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL15643.09%3
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA14439.78%2
NUEVA GENERACIÓN4211.60%0
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO71.93%0
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA71.93%0
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO61.66%0

Result source · Sheet 4.65; district 4 · 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
XINIA LETICIA TREMINIO PEREZSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIALIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
LUCAS GONZALEZ MONTOYASÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
DIEGO ARSENIO ROJAS CARRANZACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ESTELA MARIA FALLAS ROJASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ELIETH ROJAS VILLEGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)ACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
ALVARO VARELA PEREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)ACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
ALEXANDER CENTENO MURILLOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
ANGIE CALDERON MARINCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
FANNY GABRIELA AGUIRRE GUTIERREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration
JUAN FRANCISCO DIAZ CORRALESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration

Snapshot 13 September 2026. Fixed election window 8 September 2026 to 8 March 2028. Record CR-D-GUANACASTE-BAGACES-RIO-NARANJO.