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LA CRUZ — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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Costa Rica · LA CRUZ / GUANACASTE · other · Syndic and district council — shared ballotCR-D-GUANACASTE-LA-CRUZ-LA-CRUZ

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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 CRUZ / GUANACASTE
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-f8cead414c115b5f8c9cd635
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

  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN65.5%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL13.8%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA11.6%
  • UNIÓN GUANACASTECA6.3%
  • AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA2.8%
Results for event-2172a7720dd53d02f34cd3f2
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241,94165.5%4Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202440813.8%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202434411.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIÓN GUANACASTECAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241886.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024832.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN39.7%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA32.8%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL17.1%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL3.8%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA2.8%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA1.8%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS1.2%
  • UNIÓN GUANACASTECA0.7%
Results for event-ee428402856963b23fdffbda
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201,59639.7%3Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201,31932.8%1Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202068717.1%1Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201533.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201122.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020741.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020501.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIÓN GUANACASTECAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020290.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA48.7%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL45.6%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA5.7%
Results for event-14b8177114342d1e3e0f0746
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161,56448.7%3Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161,46345.6%2Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161845.7%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=51.720647773279346, oldest_gap=3.14543755839302, previous_gap=6.890547263681597

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

32.96percentage 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=[[13.765182186234817,11.605937921727396,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,74.62887989203777],[17.08955223880597,32.81094527363184,2.7860696517412937,0,3.8059701492537314,1.8407960199004976,0,0,0,0,0,0,41.66666666666667],[45.562130177514796,48.707567735907816,5.730302086577391,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

47.31percentage 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=[[13.765182186234817,11.605937921727396,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,74.62887989203777],[17.08955223880597,32.81094527363184,2.7860696517412937,0,3.8059701492537314,1.8407960199004976,0,0,0,0,0,0,41.66666666666667],[45.562130177514796,48.707567735907816,5.730302086577391,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

40.14percentage 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=[[13.765182186234817,11.605937921727396,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,74.62887989203777],[17.08955223880597,32.81094527363184,2.7860696517412937,0,3.8059701492537314,1.8407960199004976,0,0,0,0,0,0,41.66666666666667],[45.562130177514796,48.707567735907816,5.730302086577391,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]]

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?
JOSE ESTEBAN LATINO MONTIELSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIO2024NUEVA GENERACIÓNprincipal
JESSIE GABRIELA TORRES HERNANDEZSINDICATURAS SUPLENTE2024NUEVA GENERACIÓNsubstitute
LUIS ROBERTO SALGADO LOPEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024NUEVA GENERACIÓNprincipal
MARTA MARIA CAMACHO MORENOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024NUEVA GENERACIÓNprincipal
MINOR LOPEZ TORRESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024NUEVA GENERACIÓNprincipal
MARTHA AZUCENA SANDINO HERNANDEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
EFRAIN LOAICIGA CAMACHOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024NUEVA GENERACIÓNsubstitute
JOHANA CHAVARRIA ORTIZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024NUEVA GENERACIÓNsubstitute
SALVADOR MACOTELO DAVILACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024NUEVA GENERACIÓNsubstitute
JESSIE GABRIELA TORRES HERNANDEZSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIA2020NUEVA GENERACIÓNprincipal
ANA AURELIA ANGULO MORALESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020NUEVA GENERACIÓNprincipal
MINOR LOPEZ TORRESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020NUEVA GENERACIÓNprincipal
EFRAIN LOAICIGA CAMACHOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
LEONARDO ALBERTO MARTINEZ MARTINEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARGARITA CORTES RIVERACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020NUEVA GENERACIÓNsubstitute
ADRIAN DONEY CANTILLO BARBOZACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020NUEVA GENERACIÓNsubstitute
JOSE MANUEL CORTES CARMONACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
MARTIN ALBERTO LARA LOPEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
BETZABEH MARTINEZ MORALESSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIA2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
GEOVANNI MORICE MONTIELSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
PEDRO ESPINOZA CORTESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
ANA JULIA SANCHEZ GARCIACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
PRISCILLA ADRIANA ZAMORA SANCHEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
NARCISO HERNANDEZ MARTINEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
RAFAEL ANTONIO PEREZ PEREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
ZENEIDA PIZARRO GOMEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
NOILY ALAN COREACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
EDWIN SANCHEZ HUERTASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute

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 CRUZ — Syndic and district council — shared ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-D-GUANACASTE-LA-CRUZ-LA-CRUZ. Sources: costa-rica--url-ae6cfb21525f974d8912a00e, costa-rica--url-9b0bf8940eb485b811da317e, costa-rica--url-f8a1e09c9e89a7e5e9c55114, costa-rica--Sc1df243471, costa-rica--S7f113cf23c, costa-rica--Sfa91292290, costa-rica--S8dad4ea405, costa-rica--S79669f3e5d, costa-rica--S9d20aa4fc8.