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POROZAL — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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Costa Rica · POROZAL / GUANACASTE · other · Syndic and district council — shared ballotCR-D-GUANACASTE-CANAS-POROZAL

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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
POROZAL / GUANACASTE
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-dbd537cbaa1313c9fc8aa5f6
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

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL58.3%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA21.4%
  • AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA13.6%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS6.8%
Results for event-98a3934e6cefa2c82aadf2f2
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202418058.3%4Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20246621.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20244213.6%1Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024216.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL81.0%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL11.5%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO4.3%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA3.2%
Results for event-43f2c5e32444900f70634cd3
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202022681%5Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20203211.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020124.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202093.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL83.9%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA12.9%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO1.8%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA1.4%
Results for event-1e9c1ab6e05bc870243d634f
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201623483.9%4Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20163612.9%1Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201651.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201641.4%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=36.89320388349515, oldest_gap=70.96774193548387, previous_gap=69.53405017921148

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

38.52percentage 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=[[58.25242718446602,21.359223300970875,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,20.388349514563107],[81.00358422939068,3.225806451612903,0,4.301075268817204,11.469534050179211,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],[83.87096774193549,12.903225806451612,1.4336917562724014,1.7921146953405018,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

13.98percentage 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=[[58.25242718446602,21.359223300970875,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,20.388349514563107],[81.00358422939068,3.225806451612903,0,4.301075268817204,11.469534050179211,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],[83.87096774193549,12.903225806451612,1.4336917562724014,1.7921146953405018,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

26.25percentage 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=[[58.25242718446602,21.359223300970875,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,20.388349514563107],[81.00358422939068,3.225806451612903,0,4.301075268817204,11.469534050179211,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],[83.87096774193549,12.903225806451612,1.4336917562724014,1.7921146953405018,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]]

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?
JAZIEL RUIZ GUTIERREZSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIO2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
YINDRI UMAÑA GUTIERREZSINDICATURAS SUPLENTE2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ALEJANDRA CARDENAS ORIASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
OSCAR ORIAS SILVACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ANA GLORIA ROSALES MORAGACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
SEIDY MORAGA CHEVEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAprincipal
MEILY PORTUGUEZ MAYORGACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
JORDAN ALBERTO OBANDO GARCIACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
JOSE LUIS SEGNINI CALVOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
DANIA YENANI GARCIA GARCIACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAsubstitute
JOSE MACARIO MONTES CARRILLOSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
SILVIA CAMPOS GARCIASÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
CARMELINA PICADO RAMIREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ALBERTO ENRIQUE DIAZ MORAGACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ENEIDA DEL CARMEN MORAGA GOMEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
GREVIN CORTES CORTESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
JORDAN ALBERTO OBANDO GARCIACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
JENNY VIDAL GOMEZ GOMEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
CHRISTOPHER JOSUE MONTES GOMEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
YINDRI UMAÑA GUTIERREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
JOSE MACARIO MONTES CARRILLOSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
CARMELINA PICADO RAMIREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ALBERTO ENRIQUE DIAZ MORAGACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ENEIDA DEL CARMEN MORAGA GOMEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ALVIN MADRIZ MARTINEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
SERGIO GOMEZ MAYORGACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
JENNY VIDAL GOMEZ GOMEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ALEXANDER OBANDO GOMEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
DAMARIS HELENA CARRILLO MEDINACONCEJALES 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. “POROZAL — Syndic and district council — shared ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-D-GUANACASTE-CANAS-POROZAL. Sources: costa-rica--url-ae6cfb21525f974d8912a00e, costa-rica--url-9b0bf8940eb485b811da317e, costa-rica--url-f8a1e09c9e89a7e5e9c55114, costa-rica--Sc1df243471, costa-rica--S92ae0ef2e3, costa-rica--Sfa91292290, costa-rica--S3b578cb7fd, costa-rica--S79669f3e5d, costa-rica--Sa0a321d730.