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SANTA ROSA — Syndic and district council — shared ballot
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SANTA ROSA — 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: 0.0/100. 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 34.1 points; earlier interval 45.3 points; two-interval mean 39.7 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
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL26450.67%3
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA14628.02%1
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA11121.31%1

Result source · PDF page 542; district 4 · 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
ELEOMAR MUÑOZ JIMENEZSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIOLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
DORA SIDENIA SOTO ARCESINDICATURAS SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
FRANCELA MARIA ARIAS ARCECONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
DEIBY RICARDO RODRIGUEZ ALVARADOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
YEIMELIN FABIOLA CRUZ ALVARADOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
HANNIA PRISCILLA GONZALEZ ALVARADOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASAQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDANoDeclaration
JESSICA MARIA CHAVES BERMUDEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
ALEJANDRO CALVO ARCECONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MARIALIS LOPEZ BARAHONACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
LENDA MARIA CHAVARRIA QUESADACONCEJALÍAS 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 NACIONAL30666.38%4
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA7015.18%1
NUEVA REPÚBLICA5311.50%0
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL326.94%0

Result source · Sheet 4.70; district 4 · 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
JUAN CARLOS SALAS CHARPENTIERSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ANAIS ISABEL DELGADO CERDASSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MARVIN JOSE MUÑOZ JIMENEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
CINDY MARIA DUARTE RIZOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
JORGE LOPEZ MARTINEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
OSCAR LUIS LOPEZ MEJIASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
MARIA DE LOS ANGELES JIMENEZ MORALESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MAYKOL JOSE PRENDAS PEREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
LUVIGILDA RIZO ALFAROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MARIA GUADALUPE GUZMAN ESPINOZACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
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. The final declaration supersedes its initial mathematical allocation where candidate eligibility or vacant nominations alter the distribution.

Party or listCandidateVotes or marksVote shareSeats
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL24644.57%4
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO15528.08%1
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA5610.14%0
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA519.24%0
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO447.97%0

Result source · Sheet 4.69; district 4 · 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
JUAN CARLOS SALAS CHARPENTIERSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MARIZEL DE LOS ANGELES FERNANDEZ CHAVESSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MARVIN JOSE MUÑOZ JIMENEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
JESSICA DE LOS ANGELES ROJAS LOPEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
FELIX RIZO LOPEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIONoDeclaration
MARIO LOPEZ ALVARADOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MARIA CHAVES ROJASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
JORGE LOPEZ MARTINEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MARIA DE LOS ANGELES JIMENEZ MORALESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration

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