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TRONADORA — Syndic and district council — shared ballot
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TRONADORA — 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: 1.0/100. 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 31.2 points; earlier interval 46.4 points; two-interval mean 38.8 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 CRISTIANA39460.24%4
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL19529.82%1
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA659.94%0

Result source · PDF page 542; district 3 · 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 ENRIQUE VARGAS VARGASSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIOUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
ROSA MARIA CAMPOS CASTROSINDICATURAS SUPLENTEUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
FLORY CAMPOS CASTROCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
VINICIO ALFARO CASTILLOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
SELENIA ARIAS CASTROCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
MARITZA MARIN SALASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
NAZARETH NAOMY PEREZ ALFAROCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
MAURICIO CARMONA RAMIREZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
MARIA MERCEDES QUESADA MONTEROCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
ANA BELLY MEJIAS HERRERACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
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
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA24039.02%3
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL23638.37%1
NUEVA REPÚBLICA11719.02%1
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL223.58%0

Result source · Sheet 4.70; district 3 · 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
MANRIQUE JOSE ESPINOZA SOLANOSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
MARIA ETELVINA ARRIETA GUTIERREZSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTEUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
CATALINA MURILLO CAMPOSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
LUIS ENRIQUE CONEJO MURILLOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
ERICK ROBERTO RODRIGUEZ MEJIASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
JAIRO ALEJANDRO MORA BERMUDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)NUEVA REPÚBLICANoDeclaration
MAYKOL ANDRES GUTIERREZ CAMPOSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
LIGIA MARIA RODRIGUEZ MURILLOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
YORLENY GONZALEZ SANCHEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
YAHAIRA LUCRECIA JIMENEZ ALVARADOCONCEJALES 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
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL24034.29%2
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA14620.86%1
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA13519.29%1
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO13419.14%1
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO456.43%0

Result source · Sheet 4.69; district 3 · 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
NIXA MARGOTH ALVAREZ RAMIREZSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIALIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
FLORENTINO JIMENEZ RIVERASÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
YORLENY GONZALEZ SANCHEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
YELIXA SEGURA ZUMBADOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)ACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
JEUDY ALVAREZ ZUÑIGACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
LUZ NALDA ROJAS BLANCOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIONoDeclaration
WAGNER ALFARO MEJIACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
JHONNATHAN ALVARADO MEJIASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration
TITO RAMON OBANDO LOPEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
LOREN ELIETTE GONZALEZ ALFAROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESMOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIOYesDeclaration

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