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SANTA CECILIA — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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

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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
SANTA CECILIA / GUANACASTE
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-662febbb468f4a65dd5ea5d9
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 GENERACIÓN63.5%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA15.7%
  • UNIÓN GUANACASTECA12.3%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL6.1%
  • AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA2.4%
Results for event-a75baa030b39c52c382da542
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202493363.5%4Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202423115.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIÓN GUANACASTECAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202418112.3%1Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024906.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024352.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA44.4%
  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN36.5%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL13.7%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL3.4%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA1.7%
  • UNIÓN GUANACASTECA0.3%
Results for event-70cc32e9c5c54732b962cd30
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202074844.4%3Recorded
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202061636.5%1Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202023113.7%1Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020583.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020281.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIÓN GUANACASTECAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202050.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA45.0%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL31.8%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA23.2%
Results for event-64fcc0fb428a84e7607a747e
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201654845%3Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201638731.8%1Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201628223.2%1Recorded

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=47.755102040816325, oldest_gap=13.229252259654885, previous_gap=7.829181494661917

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

41.33percentage 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=[[6.122448979591836,15.714285714285714,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,78.16326530612244],[13.701067615658364,44.36536180308422,1.66073546856465,0,3.4400948991696323,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,36.83274021352313],[31.79950698438784,45.028759244042725,23.171733771569432,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

40.27percentage 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=[[6.122448979591836,15.714285714285714,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,78.16326530612244],[13.701067615658364,44.36536180308422,1.66073546856465,0,3.4400948991696323,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,36.83274021352313],[31.79950698438784,45.028759244042725,23.171733771569432,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

40.8percentage 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=[[6.122448979591836,15.714285714285714,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,78.16326530612244],[13.701067615658364,44.36536180308422,1.66073546856465,0,3.4400948991696323,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,36.83274021352313],[31.79950698438784,45.028759244042725,23.171733771569432,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]]

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?
ROSITA ELENA MAIRENA LANZASINDICATURAS PROPIETARIA2024NUEVA GENERACIÓNprincipal
GERMAN ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ RODRIGUEZSINDICATURAS SUPLENTE2024NUEVA GENERACIÓNsubstitute
MARIA SOLEDAD VALVERDE COREACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024NUEVA GENERACIÓNprincipal
JEFFRY ALONSO COREA CHAVARRIACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024NUEVA GENERACIÓNprincipal
JENNY CONTRERAS LOPEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024NUEVA GENERACIÓNprincipal
JUAN RUGAMA DAVILACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024UNIÓN GUANACASTECAprincipal
MARIA MARTINEZ PORTILLOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024NUEVA GENERACIÓNsubstitute
JAVIER RODRIGUEZ CASTILLOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024NUEVA GENERACIÓNsubstitute
MARLENE CASTILLO MUÑOZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024NUEVA GENERACIÓNsubstitute
JOSE DIMAS TORRENTES FAJARDOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIÓN GUANACASTECAsubstitute
ZENAIDA QUIROS CHAVARRIASÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIA2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
LUIS ANGEL CASTILLO GARCIASÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
RITA MARIA RUIZ BUSTOSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
JAVIER SANCHEZ CANALESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
ADOLFO LOPEZ PONCECONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020NUEVA GENERACIÓNprincipal
ROSA EMILIA RODRIGUEZ RODRIGUEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
IGNACIO CUBERO MARTINEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
KARLA EUGENIA MURILLO BRICEÑOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
WILBER CHAVARRIA MARTINEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020NUEVA GENERACIÓNsubstitute
ESTEFANIA RUIZ GUZMANCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ZENAIDA QUIROS CHAVARRIASÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIA2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
JOSE REINALDO FERNANDEZ VEGASÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
JULIO CESAR JIMENEZ TORRENTESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
LORENA VICTOR SANCHEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
OSCAR DANILO FAJARDO MARTINEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
LUIS ANGEL CASTILLO GARCIACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
MARTIN LOPEZ OBREGONCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
DORA CRISTINA ANGULO CENTENOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
ALBERTO VASQUEZ CHEVEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
YADIRA ARCIA BERMUDEZCONCEJALES 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. “SANTA CECILIA — Syndic and district council — shared ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-D-GUANACASTE-LA-CRUZ-SANTA-CECILIA. 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.