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LIBERIA — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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

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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
LIBERIA / GUANACASTE
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-b37515f008691d8429a23ee9
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

  • LIBERAL PROGRESISTA19.1%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL17.7%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA15.9%
  • NUEVA LIBERIA10.9%
  • UNIÓN GUANACASTECA9.9%
  • LIBERIA UNIDA6.1%
  • PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICO5.4%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA4.6%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS4.6%
  • AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA3.2%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO2.7%
Results for event-918dc1e47f44a43413f8e0c1
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERAL PROGRESISTAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20242,22919.1%3Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20242,06917.7%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241,85815.9%1Recorded
NUEVA LIBERIAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241,26810.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIÓN GUANACASTECAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241,1539.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
LIBERIA UNIDAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20247086.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20246295.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20245424.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20245354.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20243763.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20243142.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA20.6%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL15.6%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO14.9%
  • UNIÓN GUANACASTECA11.3%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS9.4%
  • INTEGRACIÓN NACIONAL8.4%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA5.8%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA5.3%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL3.5%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO3.2%
  • RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSE2.1%
Results for event-1ad11b264130de0c9d1332d6
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202,73020.6%3Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202,07115.6%1Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201,97814.9%1Recorded
UNIÓN GUANACASTECAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201,49711.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201,2509.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201,1128.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20207645.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20207045.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20204623.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20204223.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSEcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202752.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL23.3%
  • ACCESIBILIDAD SIN EXCLUSIÓN20.1%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA16.6%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA16.3%
  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN9.4%
  • MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO6.2%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO3.9%
  • RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSE2.5%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO1.7%
Results for event-5b9479b1ee146e3c7fad02dd
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20162,50423.3%3Recorded
ACCESIBILIDAD SIN EXCLUSIÓNcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20162,16120.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161,78116.6%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161,74916.3%1Recorded
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161,0169.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20166696.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20164143.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSEcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20162732.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161851.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

86.840–100 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=1.3697457409468363, oldest_gap=3.1901041666666643, previous_gap=4.967960799095364

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

38.37percentage 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=[[17.712524612618783,15.906172416745141,0,2.6881260166081673,0,4.64001369745741,0,0,0,0,19.08227035356562,5.384812944097252,34.58607995890763],[15.612514134941575,20.58047493403694,5.759517527327554,3.1813041839427063,3.4828496042216357,5.3071993969091595,0,8.38296268375424,0,14.911421032793065,0,0,22.781756502073122],[23.288690476190474,16.266741071428573,16.56436011904762,3.8504464285714284,0,0,6.222098214285714,0,20.09858630952381,1.720610119047619,0,0,11.988467261904763]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

45.47percentage 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=[[17.712524612618783,15.906172416745141,0,2.6881260166081673,0,4.64001369745741,0,0,0,0,19.08227035356562,5.384812944097252,34.58607995890763],[15.612514134941575,20.58047493403694,5.759517527327554,3.1813041839427063,3.4828496042216357,5.3071993969091595,0,8.38296268375424,0,14.911421032793065,0,0,22.781756502073122],[23.288690476190474,16.266741071428573,16.56436011904762,3.8504464285714284,0,0,6.222098214285714,0,20.09858630952381,1.720610119047619,0,0,11.988467261904763]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

41.92percentage 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=[[17.712524612618783,15.906172416745141,0,2.6881260166081673,0,4.64001369745741,0,0,0,0,19.08227035356562,5.384812944097252,34.58607995890763],[15.612514134941575,20.58047493403694,5.759517527327554,3.1813041839427063,3.4828496042216357,5.3071993969091595,0,8.38296268375424,0,14.911421032793065,0,0,22.781756502073122],[23.288690476190474,16.266741071428573,16.56436011904762,3.8504464285714284,0,0,6.222098214285714,0,20.09858630952381,1.720610119047619,0,0,11.988467261904763]]

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?
DINNIA MARIA RIOS RODRIGUEZSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIA2024LIBERAL PROGRESISTAprincipal
CESAR FABIO CARMONA DELGADOSINDICATURAS SUPLENTE2024LIBERAL PROGRESISTAsubstitute
JENNIFER DE LOS ANGELES BRICEÑO QUIROSCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERAL PROGRESISTAprincipal
JUAN CARLOS LOPEZ BRIZUELACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERAL PROGRESISTAprincipal
XIOMARA DEL CARMEN DE LA CRUZ NARVAEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
VIRIA DE LOS ANGELES MAIRENA CARRILLOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
ESCARLETT VANESSA NUÑEZ MARTINEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ROXANA MARIA CHAVARRIA CANOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
ESTEBAN GARCIA BETANCOURTSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
ROCIO LOPEZ CHAVARRIASÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
SALVADOR ALONSO DIAZ ANGULOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
ESTEFANY YESSENIA SANTANA DINARTECONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
SILVIA ELENA BALTODANO HERNANDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
HAZEL VANESSA MARTINEZ QUESADACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOprincipal
BERNY GERARDO APU MURILLOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
ANDREA ALVAREZ LOPEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
RONNY MAURICIO ZAMORA ALVAREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MARITZA GUADAMUZ ORDOÑEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOsubstitute
ANA CECILIA DIAZ RODRIGUEZSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIA2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ROGER FABRICIO CARRANZA SOTELASÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
SANDRA MAYELA BALTODANO ABARCACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MAURICIO ESPINOZA ALVAREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARIA GUADALUPE MORA ARAYACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
ANA CECILIA MORALES LOAICIGACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
DORA DILIA AMORETY URIARTECONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
JUAN DE DIOS ALVARADO CARMONACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MARIO ALBERTO SIBAJA GUEVARACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAsubstitute
EDGAR BLANCO CORTESCONCEJALES 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. “LIBERIA — Syndic and district council — shared ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-D-GUANACASTE-LIBERIA-LIBERIA. Sources: costa-rica--url-ae6cfb21525f974d8912a00e, costa-rica--url-9b0bf8940eb485b811da317e, costa-rica--url-f8a1e09c9e89a7e5e9c55114, costa-rica--Sc1df243471, costa-rica--Sbaae876e4e, costa-rica--Sfa91292290, costa-rica--S07514f98e1, costa-rica--S79669f3e5d, costa-rica--S4fbcc1c3ce.