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SÁMARA — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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Costa Rica · SÁMARA / GUANACASTE · other · Syndic and district council — shared ballotCR-D-GUANACASTE-NICOYA-SAMARA

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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
SÁMARA / GUANACASTE
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-492e1c7880b532357ed60f7f
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

  • LA GRAN NICOYA35.7%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL24.2%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA15.3%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA10.1%
  • LIBERAL PROGRESISTA8.7%
  • UNIÓN GUANACASTECA3.9%
  • AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA2.1%
Results for event-05b7ff760622582c7689438b
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LA GRAN NICOYAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202425535.7%3Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202417324.2%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202410915.3%1Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20247210.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
LIBERAL PROGRESISTAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024628.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIÓN GUANACASTECAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024283.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024152.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL29.5%
  • LA GRAN NICOYA18.6%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA13.6%
  • COALICIÓN ALIANZA POR NICOYA12.7%
  • INTEGRACIÓN NACIONAL11.2%
  • GUANACASTE PRIMERO8.6%
  • UNIÓN GUANACASTECA2.4%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL2.0%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO1.4%
Results for event-21778f000483830a92f550b3
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202029729.5%3Recorded
LA GRAN NICOYAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202018718.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202013713.6%1Recorded
COALICIÓN ALIANZA POR NICOYAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202012812.7%1Recorded
INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202011311.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
GUANACASTE PRIMEROcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020878.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIÓN GUANACASTECAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020242.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020202%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020141.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL45.0%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA28.4%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA14.0%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO12.6%
Results for event-295543638b6c4713beb3bf61
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201639045%3Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201624628.4%1Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201612114%1Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201610912.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

40.850–100 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=11.484593837535016, oldest_gap=16.628175519630485, previous_gap=10.923535253227406

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

20.43percentage 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=[[24.2296918767507,15.266106442577032,0,0,0,10.084033613445378,0,0,0,0,8.683473389355742,0,41.73669467787115],[29.493545183714,13.604766633565045,0,0,1.9860973187686197,0,0,11.221449851042701,0,1.3902681231380338,0,0,42.3038728897716],[45.03464203233256,28.406466512702078,13.97228637413395,12.58660508083141,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

56.9percentage 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=[[24.2296918767507,15.266106442577032,0,0,0,10.084033613445378,0,0,0,0,8.683473389355742,0,41.73669467787115],[29.493545183714,13.604766633565045,0,0,1.9860973187686197,0,0,11.221449851042701,0,1.3902681231380338,0,0,42.3038728897716],[45.03464203233256,28.406466512702078,13.97228637413395,12.58660508083141,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

38.67percentage 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=[[24.2296918767507,15.266106442577032,0,0,0,10.084033613445378,0,0,0,0,8.683473389355742,0,41.73669467787115],[29.493545183714,13.604766633565045,0,0,1.9860973187686197,0,0,11.221449851042701,0,1.3902681231380338,0,0,42.3038728897716],[45.03464203233256,28.406466512702078,13.97228637413395,12.58660508083141,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]]

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?
EVELIN BRIONES CARRILLOSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIA2024LA GRAN NICOYAprincipal
FELIX PEDRO MEDINA CARAVACASINDICATURAS SUPLENTE2024LA GRAN NICOYAsubstitute
ANAYERIS DIAZ ARTAVIACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LA GRAN NICOYAprincipal
ALEXANDER GERARDO VARGAS MADRIGALCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LA GRAN NICOYAprincipal
BENEDICTO GUADAMUZ ZUÑIGACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
LUCAS JOSE VILLAFUERTE FLORESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
VERONICA DUARTE GARCIACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LA GRAN NICOYAsubstitute
GERALD MATARRITA ZUÑIGACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LA GRAN NICOYAsubstitute
MIGUEL ANGEL GOMEZ CARRILLOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MIGUEL ANGEL GAMBOA ORIASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
BONIFACIO DIAZ ZUÑIGASÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
EVELIN BRIONES CARRILLOSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ILEANA MARIA ARIAS CHAVESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
GEOVANNY MENDOZA HERNANDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
EMILCE STELLER RAMIREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
JOSE LUIS JIRON LOPEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020COALICIÓN ALIANZA POR NICOYAprincipal
FREDDY GOMEZ GOMEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
YEUDIT VILLEGAS FAJARDOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
LILLIAM MARIA JIMENEZ CARRILLOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
JACKLYN YESENIA MORA VENEGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020COALICIÓN ALIANZA POR NICOYAsubstitute
BONIFACIO DIAZ ZUÑIGASÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
KARLA VANESSA JIRON LOPEZSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
JOSE LUIS MACOTELO GARCIACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ALEXANDRA GOMEZ GOMEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
EVERARDO ROJAS STELLERCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
XIOMARA SANCHEZ JIRONCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
GINNETTE LILI ESPINOZA CASTRILLOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
FREDDY LOPEZ VALENCIACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
GERMAN MATARRITA MATARRITACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
MARLENI RODRIGUEZ DELGADOCONCEJALES 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. “SÁMARA — Syndic and district council — shared ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-D-GUANACASTE-NICOYA-SAMARA. Sources: costa-rica--url-ae6cfb21525f974d8912a00e, costa-rica--url-9b0bf8940eb485b811da317e, costa-rica--url-f8a1e09c9e89a7e5e9c55114, costa-rica--Sc1df243471, costa-rica--S633101f6a9, costa-rica--Sfa91292290, costa-rica--S7b48e1d956, costa-rica--S79669f3e5d, costa-rica--S58fa941744.