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VEINTISIETE DE ABRIL — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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

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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
VEINTISIETE DE ABRIL / GUANACASTE
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-63b0a1c9f9362e6148a8e1a1
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

  • AUTÉNTICO SANTACRUCEÑO42.1%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA17.2%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL14.9%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS9.0%
  • AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA6.2%
  • UNIÓN GUANACASTECA4.6%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA3.8%
  • PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICO2.2%
Results for event-795eca6c3453ac8a7321de7e
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
AUTÉNTICO SANTACRUCEÑOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202485042.1%3Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202434817.2%1Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202430014.9%1Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241819%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241266.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIÓN GUANACASTECAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024934.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024763.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024452.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • AUTÉNTICO SANTACRUCEÑO31.7%
  • INTEGRACIÓN NACIONAL25.5%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA19.8%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL15.1%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA2.7%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA2.1%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL1.5%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO1.0%
  • UNIÓN GUANACASTECA0.4%
Results for event-a7d5510a5e749062ad28e395
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
AUTÉNTICO SANTACRUCEÑOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202074231.7%2Recorded
INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202059725.5%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202046419.8%1Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202035415.1%1Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020622.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020502.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020361.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020231%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIÓN GUANACASTECAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020100.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • INTEGRACIÓN NACIONAL32.5%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL20.2%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA18.0%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA13.6%
  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN6.9%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO6.0%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO1.5%
  • MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO1.1%
Results for event-713af2073059d281cfaebdcc
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201669432.5%2Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201643020.2%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201638418%1Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201629113.6%1Recorded
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161486.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161296%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016331.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016241.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

9.920–100 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=24.863793957404656, oldest_gap=12.376933895921233, previous_gap=6.201881950384944

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

33.6percentage 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=[[14.85884101040119,17.236255572065378,0,0,0,3.7642397226349678,0,0,0,0,0,2.2288261515601784,61.91183754333829],[15.14114627887083,19.84602224123182,2.6518391787852864,0,1.5397775876817792,2.1385799828913603,0,25.53464499572284,0,0.9837467921300257,0,0,32.16424294268606],[20.15939990623535,18.0028129395218,13.642756680731365,1.5471167369901546,0,0,1.1251758087201125,32.536333802156584,0,6.047819971870605,0,0,6.938584153774027]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

30.75percentage 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=[[14.85884101040119,17.236255572065378,0,0,0,3.7642397226349678,0,0,0,0,0,2.2288261515601784,61.91183754333829],[15.14114627887083,19.84602224123182,2.6518391787852864,0,1.5397775876817792,2.1385799828913603,0,25.53464499572284,0,0.9837467921300257,0,0,32.16424294268606],[20.15939990623535,18.0028129395218,13.642756680731365,1.5471167369901546,0,0,1.1251758087201125,32.536333802156584,0,6.047819971870605,0,0,6.938584153774027]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

32.17percentage 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=[[14.85884101040119,17.236255572065378,0,0,0,3.7642397226349678,0,0,0,0,0,2.2288261515601784,61.91183754333829],[15.14114627887083,19.84602224123182,2.6518391787852864,0,1.5397775876817792,2.1385799828913603,0,25.53464499572284,0,0.9837467921300257,0,0,32.16424294268606],[20.15939990623535,18.0028129395218,13.642756680731365,1.5471167369901546,0,0,1.1251758087201125,32.536333802156584,0,6.047819971870605,0,0,6.938584153774027]]

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?
KATIA RODRIGUEZ GUTIERREZSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIA2024AUTÉNTICO SANTACRUCEÑOprincipal
YORHANY PIZARRO LOPEZSINDICATURAS SUPLENTE2024AUTÉNTICO SANTACRUCEÑOsubstitute
JEFFRI GOMEZ GUEVARACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024AUTÉNTICO SANTACRUCEÑOprincipal
MARIA FERNANDA ESPINOZA ANGULOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024AUTÉNTICO SANTACRUCEÑOprincipal
BLANCA IVETH TRAÑA CASTILLOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
JOAQUIN ALBERTO ZUÑIGA VALLEJOSCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
JUAN MAURICIO HERNANDEZ ESPINOZACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024AUTÉNTICO SANTACRUCEÑOsubstitute
YANNIS JAEN CONTRERASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024AUTÉNTICO SANTACRUCEÑOsubstitute
ANGIE PAOLA ARROYO TRAÑACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
JOSE ENRIQUE CHAVES SOTOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
KATIA RODRIGUEZ GUTIERREZSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIA2020AUTÉNTICO SANTACRUCEÑOprincipal
RAFAEL ANGEL ZAMORA ALVARENGASÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2020AUTÉNTICO SANTACRUCEÑOsubstitute
PEDRO ROBERTO RUIZ LEALCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020AUTÉNTICO SANTACRUCEÑOprincipal
JEFFRI GOMEZ GUEVARACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
IMELDA JUAREZ GOMEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
CINDY DANIELA BUSTOS VALLEJOSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ERVIN MATARRITA BALTODANOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020AUTÉNTICO SANTACRUCEÑOsubstitute
MILAGROS DE JESUS CERDA SANDOVALCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MELVIN CONTRERAS RODRIGUEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
SOFIA NIKOL REYES GUTIERREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
SERGIO JUAREZ GUTIERREZSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2016INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ALISANDRA GUTIERREZ GOMEZSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2016INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
OLGER CISNEROS DURANCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ABELARDO CABALCETA PEÑACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
WILLIAM JUAREZ CAMARENOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
YAMILETH CANALES MORAGACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
NORA ZITA ORTEGA VIALESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
YRACEMA JUAREZ VALERINCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
YAMILETH RUIZ MENACONCEJALES 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. “VEINTISIETE DE ABRIL — Syndic and district council — shared ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-D-GUANACASTE-SANTA-CRUZ-VEINTISIETE-DE-ABRIL. Sources: costa-rica--url-ae6cfb21525f974d8912a00e, costa-rica--url-9b0bf8940eb485b811da317e, costa-rica--url-f8a1e09c9e89a7e5e9c55114, costa-rica--Sc1df243471, costa-rica--S0d8290dcc9, costa-rica--Sfa91292290, costa-rica--S58324d9946, costa-rica--S79669f3e5d, costa-rica--S8fa18fc813.