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PORVENIR — Syndic and district council — shared ballot
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PORVENIR — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

All 1,973 imported 2016/2020/2024 returns now reconcile seats against 18,155 named elected people, including vice-officers and substitutes. The missing Cartagena 2020 result and eight spelling joins are recovered. Final proclamations replace 17 initial seat allocations. Fifty-two party-acronym joins are explicitly inferred and documented. New-canton predecessors stay separate; replacements, the 2028 call and current incumbents remain to be verified.

Election expectation2028-02-06
Imported event records3
Usable vote comparison cycles3 of 3
Seat comparison cycles3 of 3

Historical competition

Competitiveness index for a verified actual-event sequence withheld. Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete.

Provisional imported-series CI: 0.0/100. This uses the three displayed comparison cycles and retains the open event/boundary audit. It does not confirm the latest three actual completed elections.

Grouped party-share volatility: latest interval 17.4 points; earlier interval 64.5 points; two-interval mean 40.9 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

Current government and control: Unverified. Local government-risk forecast: unassessed.

Polling: no vetted current evidence included for this office.

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.

Registry and evidence links: Source 1, Source 2, Source 3

Electoral event evidence

Separate source records can belong to the same election cycle. Recounts, runoffs and void returns do not create additional cycles.

2024-02-04 · ordinary

Coverage: Official final vote book and independently reconciled certified titular roster

Basis: One party/list ballot; syndic and district councillors share the district ballot; seats exclude substitutes; includes one syndic plus four district councillors

Source note: Seats counted from named titular members, excluding substitutes and vice-executives.

Party or listCandidateVotes or marksVote shareSeats
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA41776.09%5
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL6111.13%0
UNIÓN GUANACASTECA5910.77%0
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA112.01%0

Result source · PDF page 544; district 5 · Seat source

Named elected members and substitutes

Vice-officers and substitutes are listed where declared. They are not added to titular seat totals. Inferred party-code joins are labelled.

NameOfficeParty or listSubstituteEvidence
CARLOS ANTONIO CORTES CORDEROSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIOUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
GRACIELA ALVARADO NAVARROSINDICATURAS SUPLENTEUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
GABRIELA MARIA RAMIREZ ALVARADOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
JUAN VARGAS CHAVARRIACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
SONIA JUANITA BRENES CASTROCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
GUILLERMO VARGAS CHAVARRIACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
2020-02-02 · ordinary

Coverage: Official final vote book and independently reconciled certified titular roster

Basis: One party/list ballot; syndic and district councillors share the district ballot; seats exclude substitutes; includes one syndic plus four district councillors

Source note: Seats counted from named titular members, excluding substitutes and vice-executives.

Party or listCandidateVotes or marksVote shareSeats
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA29758.70%3
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL10320.36%1
NANDAYURE PROGRESA8216.21%1
UNIDOS PODEMOS91.78%0
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL81.58%0
NUEVA REPÚBLICA50.99%0
FRENTE AMPLIO20.40%0

Result source · Sheet 4.71; district 5 · Seat source

Named elected members and substitutes

Vice-officers and substitutes are listed where declared. They are not added to titular seat totals. Inferred party-code joins are labelled.

NameOfficeParty or listSubstituteEvidence
CARLOS ANTONIO CORTES CORDEROSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
JACQUELINE GARCIA ALVARADOSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTEUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
GUILLERMO VARGAS CHAVARRIACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
SONIA JUANITA BRENES CASTROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
DANIEL CHAVES ZUÑIGACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
HERNY GERARDO ALVARADO ZUÑIGACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)NANDAYURE PROGRESANoDeclaration
ALEXIS ALVARADO ALVARADOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
RUTH SIBAJA UMAÑACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESNANDAYURE PROGRESAYesDeclaration
2016-02-07 · ordinary

Coverage: Official final vote book and independently reconciled certified titular roster

Basis: One party/list ballot; syndic and district councillors share the district ballot; seats exclude substitutes; includes one syndic plus four district councillors

Source note: Seats counted from named titular members, excluding substitutes and vice-executives.

Party or listCandidateVotes or marksVote shareSeats
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL22350.68%3
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA8318.86%1
FRENTE AMPLIO6715.23%1
NUEVA GENERACIÓN5813.18%0
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA71.59%0
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO20.45%0

Result source · Sheet 4.70; district 5 · Seat source

Named elected members and substitutes

Vice-officers and substitutes are listed where declared. They are not added to titular seat totals. Inferred party-code joins are labelled.

NameOfficeParty or listSubstituteEvidence
MAINOR GRANADOS AGUEROSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
LEIDI MARIA JIMENEZ RODRIGUEZSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
DANIEL CHAVES ZUÑIGACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
KEYDA MARIA RAMIREZ HERRACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
DAMARIS LEAL ALVAREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)ACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
OLMAN ABARCA VEGACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)FRENTE AMPLIONoDeclaration
GRICEL ALVARADO ALVARADOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
GERARDO VARGAS CHAVARRIACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
PRISCILA ALVARADO ROJASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration
NURIA DEL CARMEN HERRERA MAYORGACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESFRENTE AMPLIOYesDeclaration

Snapshot 13 September 2026. Fixed election window 8 September 2026 to 8 March 2028. Record CR-D-GUANACASTE-NANDAYURE-PORVENIR.