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CARTAGENA — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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

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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
CARTAGENA / GUANACASTE
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-eb01ba817abce54e413c59b3
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

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL43.3%
  • AUTÉNTICO SANTACRUCEÑO26.7%
  • PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICO7.8%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA7.7%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS6.3%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA3.4%
  • UNIÓN GUANACASTECA2.5%
  • AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA2.3%
Results for event-5ef2ef2574bc584ccf877cfd
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202459843.3%3Recorded
AUTÉNTICO SANTACRUCEÑOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202436826.7%2Recorded
PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241087.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241067.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024876.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024473.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIÓN GUANACASTECAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024342.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024322.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · unknown

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL31.2%
  • AUTÉNTICO SANTACRUCEÑO27.2%
  • INTEGRACIÓN NACIONAL14.2%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA11.1%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA9.5%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL5.2%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA0.7%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO0.5%
  • UNIÓN GUANACASTECA0.4%
Results for event-5c7a9c80f6be04b5c555318c
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S58324d9946/202041231.2%3Recorded
AUTÉNTICO SANTACRUCEÑOcosta-rica/S58324d9946/202035927.2%1Recorded
INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S58324d9946/202018714.2%1Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S58324d9946/202014611.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S58324d9946/20201259.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S58324d9946/2020695.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/S58324d9946/202090.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/S58324d9946/202070.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIÓN GUANACASTECAcosta-rica/S58324d9946/202050.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL33.3%
  • INTEGRACIÓN NACIONAL20.2%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA14.0%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO11.0%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA8.2%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO7.6%
  • MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO4.4%
  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN1.4%
Results for event-74d01f1c95422c43537b33ab
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201640533.3%3Recorded
INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201624620.2%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201617014%1Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201613411%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161008.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016937.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016534.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016171.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

37.450–100 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=16.666666666666668, oldest_gap=13.054187192118224, previous_gap=4.018195602729339

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

32.8percentage 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: 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=[[43.333333333333336,7.681159420289855,0,0,0,3.4057971014492754,0,0,0,0,0,7.826086956521739,37.753623188405804],[31.2357846853677,9.476876421531463,11.068991660348749,0,5.231235784685368,0.6823351023502654,0,14.177407126611069,0,0.530705079605762,0,0,27.59666413949962],[33.251231527093594,13.957307060755337,8.210180623973727,11.001642036124794,0,0,4.351395730706075,20.19704433497537,0,7.635467980295567,0,0,1.3957307060755337]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

34.97percentage 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=[[43.333333333333336,7.681159420289855,0,0,0,3.4057971014492754,0,0,0,0,0,7.826086956521739,37.753623188405804],[31.2357846853677,9.476876421531463,11.068991660348749,0,5.231235784685368,0.6823351023502654,0,14.177407126611069,0,0.530705079605762,0,0,27.59666413949962],[33.251231527093594,13.957307060755337,8.210180623973727,11.001642036124794,0,0,4.351395730706075,20.19704433497537,0,7.635467980295567,0,0,1.3957307060755337]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

33.89percentage 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=[[43.333333333333336,7.681159420289855,0,0,0,3.4057971014492754,0,0,0,0,0,7.826086956521739,37.753623188405804],[31.2357846853677,9.476876421531463,11.068991660348749,0,5.231235784685368,0.6823351023502654,0,14.177407126611069,0,0.530705079605762,0,0,27.59666413949962],[33.251231527093594,13.957307060755337,8.210180623973727,11.001642036124794,0,0,4.351395730706075,20.19704433497537,0,7.635467980295567,0,0,1.3957307060755337]]

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 BASILIO BUSTOS ANGULOSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIO2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
EVELYN ADRIANA GUTIERREZ GARCIASINDICATURAS SUPLENTE2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ANA YARIELA NAVARRETTE VIALESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
WALTER GONZALEZ MORENOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
SHEIRYS VALLEJOS BRICEÑOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024AUTÉNTICO SANTACRUCEÑOprincipal
ADONAY MATARRITA MENDOZACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024AUTÉNTICO SANTACRUCEÑOprincipal
MELISSA BUSTOS ANGULOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ANDERSON ALEXIS RODRIGUEZ RIOSCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MARILENY VIALES VIALESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024AUTÉNTICO SANTACRUCEÑOsubstitute
RAFAEL ELIAS ALFARO SOTOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024AUTÉNTICO SANTACRUCEÑOsubstitute
MAURO ENRIQUE CONTRERAS MORENOSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ALEJANDRA MARIA CHAVES BUSTOSSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
JOSE FELIX VIALES MENDOZACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
EVELYN ADRIANA GUTIERREZ GARCIACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARIA EMELDA CONTRERAS MORALESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020AUTÉNTICO SANTACRUCEÑOprincipal
CARLOS ALONSO CABALCETA VALERINCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ANA YARIELA NAVARRETTE VIALESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ROY ROJAS GOLOBIOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
SUGEIDY MILAGRO VALERIN VALERINCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020AUTÉNTICO SANTACRUCEÑOsubstitute
DANIA GUADAMUZ VIALESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
OBED VINICIO CERDAS BARRANTESSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
YESENIA TENORIO TENORIOSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
YEUDY VIALES ALVAREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARIA ELENA MARCHENA DIAZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
RENAN MARCHENA PERAZACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
GREGORIO ARANDU VIALES RODRIGUEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
LIDIA MARIA RODRIGUEZ MARCHENACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ISMAEL MARCHENA BUSTOSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
EVELIN GONZALEZ BETANCOURTCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
NATALIE MASSIEL DINARTE CRUZCONCEJALES 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. “CARTAGENA — Syndic and district council — shared ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-D-GUANACASTE-SANTA-CRUZ-CARTAGENA. Sources: costa-rica--url-ae6cfb21525f974d8912a00e, costa-rica--url-2b4ae02e47cbffaebedd8f73, costa-rica--url-f8a1e09c9e89a7e5e9c55114, costa-rica--Sc1df243471, costa-rica--S0d8290dcc9, costa-rica--S58324d9946, costa-rica--S79669f3e5d, costa-rica--S8fa18fc813.