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SARDINAL — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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Costa Rica · SARDINAL / GUANACASTE · other · Syndic and district council — shared ballotCR-D-GUANACASTE-CARRILLO-SARDINAL

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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
SARDINAL / GUANACASTE
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-6395f68fb46d771c1d71944c
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

  • PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICO43.4%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL17.5%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA12.7%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA6.5%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO6.0%
  • UNIÓN GUANACASTECA5.5%
  • NUESTRO PUEBLO4.2%
  • PUEBLO SOBERANO4.1%
Results for event-19e726be99a1144261bed7c0
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241,56843.4%3Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202463217.5%1Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202445912.7%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20242366.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20242176%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIÓN GUANACASTECAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241985.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUESTRO PUEBLOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241504.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PUEBLO SOBERANOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241494.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL30.7%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL19.0%
  • CANTONAL DE CARRILLO18.7%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA15.4%
  • UNIÓN GUANACASTECA9.6%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA4.8%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO1.8%
Results for event-b01ed03b52c6a633b681d018
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201,15230.7%2Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202071319%1Recorded
CANTONAL DE CARRILLOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202070318.7%1Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202058015.4%1Recorded
UNIÓN GUANACASTECAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20203619.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201794.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020691.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL30.0%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA24.2%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA21.3%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO15.7%
  • RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSE7.8%
  • MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO1.1%
Results for event-ece8f39a82577f1bf850ad97
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161,08030%2Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201687024.2%1Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201676621.3%1Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201656515.7%1Recorded
RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSEcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20162807.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016381.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

1.750–100 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=25.935162094763093, oldest_gap=5.834954153931648, previous_gap=11.684854937450094

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

49.4percentage 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=[[17.511776115267388,6.539207536713771,0,0,0,12.718204488778055,0,0,0,6.01274591299529,0,43.44693821003048,13.771127736215018],[30.66276284269364,4.764439712536598,0,0,18.977907905243544,15.43784934788395,0,0,0,1.8365717327655044,0,0,28.320468458876764],[30.00833564879133,24.173381494859683,21.28368991386496,0,0,0,1.0558488469019172,0,0,15.698805223673242,0,0,7.779938871908864]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

55.61percentage 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=[[17.511776115267388,6.539207536713771,0,0,0,12.718204488778055,0,0,0,6.01274591299529,0,43.44693821003048,13.771127736215018],[30.66276284269364,4.764439712536598,0,0,18.977907905243544,15.43784934788395,0,0,0,1.8365717327655044,0,0,28.320468458876764],[30.00833564879133,24.173381494859683,21.28368991386496,0,0,0,1.0558488469019172,0,0,15.698805223673242,0,0,7.779938871908864]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

52.5percentage 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=[[17.511776115267388,6.539207536713771,0,0,0,12.718204488778055,0,0,0,6.01274591299529,0,43.44693821003048,13.771127736215018],[30.66276284269364,4.764439712536598,0,0,18.977907905243544,15.43784934788395,0,0,0,1.8365717327655044,0,0,28.320468458876764],[30.00833564879133,24.173381494859683,21.28368991386496,0,0,0,1.0558488469019172,0,0,15.698805223673242,0,0,7.779938871908864]]

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?
ELIA MARIA GALLO MURILLOSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIA2024PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICOprincipal
JUAN MANUEL RODRIGUEZ CASTROSINDICATURAS SUPLENTE2024PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICOsubstitute
JUAN JOSE ROJAS ANGULOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICOprincipal
SORAYA ROJAS QUIROSCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICOprincipal
SONIA VIRGINIA PIZARRO ABARCACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
HEINER CASCANTE GUTIERREZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024NUEVA REPÚBLICAprincipal
EDGAR ALBERTO REYES ARAYACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICOsubstitute
HAZEL PEREZ ROJASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICOsubstitute
NAYELI PAOLA AMADOR ESPINOZACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
JORGE ALBERTO CENTENO ESPINOZACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024NUEVA REPÚBLICAsubstitute
CLAUDIO ALFONSO ROJAS ROJASSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
IRMA MARIA CHACON CASTROSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ADRIAN ORTIZ OBANDOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
FAUSTO MISAEL JAEN MENDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARIA PAZ QUIROS VIQUEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020CANTONAL DE CARRILLOprincipal
JOSE ARNOLDO PIZARRO CANALESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020NUEVA REPÚBLICAprincipal
SONIA VIRGINIA PIZARRO ABARCACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ANNIA REBECA CARAVACA MENDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
OLIVIER VASQUEZ BUSTOSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020CANTONAL DE CARRILLOsubstitute
DORIAN MATTEY ABARCACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020NUEVA REPÚBLICAsubstitute
LILLIANA ROJAS MARINSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIA2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARVIN GERARDO AMADOR VALVERDESÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
JOSE DANIEL CARMONA SOTOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
JUAN JOSE ROJAS ANGULOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
ADRIAN ORTIZ OBANDOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
ALVARO GERARDO ABARCA GUTIERREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOprincipal
FLORIBETH VALLEJOS ESPINOZACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
FRANCISCO GARCIA GUTIERREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
OSCAR JOSE PRADO JIMENEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAsubstitute
ISIS ALEXANDRA GUILLEN MARTINEZCONCEJALES 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. “SARDINAL — Syndic and district council — shared ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-D-GUANACASTE-CARRILLO-SARDINAL. Sources: costa-rica--url-ae6cfb21525f974d8912a00e, costa-rica--url-9b0bf8940eb485b811da317e, costa-rica--url-f8a1e09c9e89a7e5e9c55114, costa-rica--Sc1df243471, costa-rica--S770bf59e9f, costa-rica--Sfa91292290, costa-rica--S5ff387826e, costa-rica--S79669f3e5d, costa-rica--S1a9ae97aeb.