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LÍBANO — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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Costa Rica · LÍBANO / GUANACASTE · other · Syndic and district council — shared ballotCR-D-GUANACASTE-TILARAN-LIBANO

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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
LÍBANO / GUANACASTE
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-17ccabf37f0a3cbabbb57145
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

  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA38.5%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL37.6%
  • AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA23.9%
Results for event-767412e7c7e556d7bd38f600
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202413538.5%3Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202413237.6%1Recorded
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20248423.9%1Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL60.8%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA26.1%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA13.1%
Results for event-d754c9eb23e55c8ad9d3d94e
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202020560.8%3Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20208826.1%1Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20204413.1%1Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA44.4%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL35.1%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO10.5%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA10.0%
Results for event-4a4fe20dc5a14ceec944515c
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201617744.4%3Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201614035.1%2Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20164210.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20164010%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

40.720–100 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=0.8547008547008517, oldest_gap=9.27318295739348, previous_gap=34.71810089020772

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

36.28percentage 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=[[37.60683760683761,38.46153846153846,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,23.931623931623932],[60.83086053412463,26.112759643916913,0,0,0,13.056379821958457,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],[35.08771929824562,44.3609022556391,10.025062656641603,0,0,0,0,0,0,10.526315789473685,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

38.8percentage 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: 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=[[37.60683760683761,38.46153846153846,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,23.931623931623932],[60.83086053412463,26.112759643916913,0,0,0,13.056379821958457,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],[35.08771929824562,44.3609022556391,10.025062656641603,0,0,0,0,0,0,10.526315789473685,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

37.54percentage 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=[[37.60683760683761,38.46153846153846,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,23.931623931623932],[60.83086053412463,26.112759643916913,0,0,0,13.056379821958457,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],[35.08771929824562,44.3609022556391,10.025062656641603,0,0,0,0,0,0,10.526315789473685,0,0,0]]

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?
FRANKLIN ANDRES RODRIGUEZ VARGASSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIO2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
KAROLAY DE LOS ANGELES MEJIA ROJASSINDICATURAS SUPLENTE2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
ALEX DAYAN SEGURA ARIASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
RUNIA CASTILLO MORALESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
PATRICIA ROJAS CARBALLOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
GILBERT ANTONIO SEGURA VILLEGASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAprincipal
JOHAN ANDRES BOLAÑOS SEGURACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
SINDY MARIA SEGURA ROJASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
JESSICA MARIA PICADO VILLALOBOSCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
LUIS ANGEL VILLALOBOS MADRIGALCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAsubstitute
MARIO ALBERTO NOVO PEREZSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
LIDIETH CABEZAS BERMUDEZSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
FRANCISCO JAVIER CALVO ALVARADOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
YESENIA ARIAS RODRIGUEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
JEANNETTE ARIAS BARRANTESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
VIRGITA ARAYA ALFAROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020NUEVA REPÚBLICAprincipal
JESSICA MARIA PICADO VILLALOBOSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
GERMAN SEGURA GOMEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
LAINER ARIAS ALFAROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
MARIA GABRIELA SEGURA CASCANTECONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020NUEVA REPÚBLICAsubstitute
OLDEMAR GOMEZ ALVARADOSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
VILMA MARIA RODRIGUEZ MIRANDASÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
CATALINA RODRIGUEZ MATAMOROSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
OLVER ALFARO VARELACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
ULFRAN SEGURA GOMEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
LIDIETH CABEZAS BERMUDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
FREDDY MEJIA GOMEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
MARIA NURIA SEGURA GOMEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
HILDA ENID ROJAS GARCIACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
OVIDIO RODRIGUEZ CORELLACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute

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. “LÍBANO — Syndic and district council — shared ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-D-GUANACASTE-TILARAN-LIBANO. Sources: costa-rica--url-ae6cfb21525f974d8912a00e, costa-rica--url-9b0bf8940eb485b811da317e, costa-rica--url-f8a1e09c9e89a7e5e9c55114, costa-rica--Sc1df243471, costa-rica--S824bd62330, costa-rica--Sfa91292290, costa-rica--S72c72d56b8, costa-rica--S79669f3e5d, costa-rica--Sa556305885.