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LÍBANO — Syndic and district council — shared ballot
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LÍBANO — 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: 40.7/100. 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 36.3 points; earlier interval 38.8 points; two-interval mean 37.5 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 CRISTIANA13538.46%3
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL13237.61%1
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA8423.93%1

Result source · PDF page 542; 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
FRANKLIN ANDRES RODRIGUEZ VARGASSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIOUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
KAROLAY DE LOS ANGELES MEJIA ROJASSINDICATURAS SUPLENTEUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
ALEX DAYAN SEGURA ARIASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
RUNIA CASTILLO MORALESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
PATRICIA ROJAS CARBALLOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
GILBERT ANTONIO SEGURA VILLEGASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASAQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDANoDeclaration
JOHAN ANDRES BOLAÑOS SEGURACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
SINDY MARIA SEGURA ROJASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
JESSICA MARIA PICADO VILLALOBOSCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
LUIS ANGEL VILLALOBOS MADRIGALCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESAQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAYesDeclaration
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
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL20560.83%3
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA8826.11%1
NUEVA REPÚBLICA4413.06%1

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
MARIO ALBERTO NOVO PEREZSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
LIDIETH CABEZAS BERMUDEZSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
FRANCISCO JAVIER CALVO ALVARADOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
YESENIA ARIAS RODRIGUEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
JEANNETTE ARIAS BARRANTESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
VIRGITA ARAYA ALFAROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)NUEVA REPÚBLICANoDeclaration
JESSICA MARIA PICADO VILLALOBOSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
GERMAN SEGURA GOMEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
LAINER ARIAS ALFAROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
MARIA GABRIELA SEGURA CASCANTECONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESNUEVA REPÚBLICAYesDeclaration
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
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA17744.36%3
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL14035.09%2
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO4210.53%0
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA4010.03%0

Result source · Sheet 4.69; 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
OLDEMAR GOMEZ ALVARADOSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
VILMA MARIA RODRIGUEZ MIRANDASÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTEUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
CATALINA RODRIGUEZ MATAMOROSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
OLVER ALFARO VARELACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
ULFRAN SEGURA GOMEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
LIDIETH CABEZAS BERMUDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
FREDDY MEJIA GOMEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
MARIA NURIA SEGURA GOMEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
HILDA ENID ROJAS GARCIACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
OVIDIO RODRIGUEZ CORELLACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration

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