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ULLOA — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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Costa Rica · ULLOA / HEREDIA · other · Syndic and district council — shared ballotCR-D-HEREDIA-HEREDIA-ULLOA

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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
ULLOA / HEREDIA
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-7a2275d119233a89b9d22cf8
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

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL32.5%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA23.1%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO12.6%
  • PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICO9.1%
  • AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA5.7%
  • SENTIR HEREDIA4.6%
  • LIBERAL PROGRESISTA4.3%
  • NUESTRO PUEBLO3.5%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO2.2%
  • AGENDA DEMOCRÁTICA NACIONAL1.7%
  • PUEBLO SOBERANO0.8%
Results for event-642b8f8b891860109a61fe41
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241,67932.5%3Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241,19423.1%1Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202465312.6%1Recorded
PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20244719.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20242975.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
SENTIR HEREDIAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20242364.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
LIBERAL PROGRESISTAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20242214.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUESTRO PUEBLOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241813.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241122.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
AGENDA DEMOCRÁTICA NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024861.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PUEBLO SOBERANOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024430.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL43.0%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA13.8%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO12.1%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA8.4%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA7.5%
  • SENTIR HEREDIA4.6%
  • INTEGRACIÓN NACIONAL3.3%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS2.8%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO2.5%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL2.0%
Results for event-6f86dc2ba79a4fe1b7e39fb7
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202,29543%3Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202073613.8%1Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202064512.1%1Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20204488.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20203987.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
SENTIR HEREDIAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202444.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201753.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201482.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201352.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201082%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL47.8%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA19.1%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO9.0%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA7.4%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO7.0%
  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN4.0%
  • MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO3.1%
  • RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSE2.5%
Results for event-28660b58fe7b60a9c5f801e1
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20162,36947.8%4Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201694819.1%1Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20164479%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20163667.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20163467%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161994%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161533.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSEcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161252.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

13.670–100 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=9.375604098202206, oldest_gap=28.68968302039168, previous_gap=29.23855963990998

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

32.13percentage 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=[[32.4569882080031,23.08138410980089,0,12.623236033249565,0,0,0,0,0,2.165087956698241,4.272182485984922,9.104968103614924,16.29615310264837],[43.04201050262566,13.803450862715678,8.402100525131283,12.096774193548388,2.0255063765941483,7.464366091522881,0,3.2820705176294074,0,2.5318829707426858,0,0,7.351837959489872],[47.82959822329901,19.13991520290733,7.389460932768019,9.024833434282254,0,0,3.0890369473046637,0,0,6.9856652533817885,0,0,6.541490006056935]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

17.67percentage 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=[[32.4569882080031,23.08138410980089,0,12.623236033249565,0,0,0,0,0,2.165087956698241,4.272182485984922,9.104968103614924,16.29615310264837],[43.04201050262566,13.803450862715678,8.402100525131283,12.096774193548388,2.0255063765941483,7.464366091522881,0,3.2820705176294074,0,2.5318829707426858,0,0,7.351837959489872],[47.82959822329901,19.13991520290733,7.389460932768019,9.024833434282254,0,0,3.0890369473046637,0,0,6.9856652533817885,0,0,6.541490006056935]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

24.9percentage 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=[[32.4569882080031,23.08138410980089,0,12.623236033249565,0,0,0,0,0,2.165087956698241,4.272182485984922,9.104968103614924,16.29615310264837],[43.04201050262566,13.803450862715678,8.402100525131283,12.096774193548388,2.0255063765941483,7.464366091522881,0,3.2820705176294074,0,2.5318829707426858,0,0,7.351837959489872],[47.82959822329901,19.13991520290733,7.389460932768019,9.024833434282254,0,0,3.0890369473046637,0,0,6.9856652533817885,0,0,6.541490006056935]]

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?
SANDRA MARIA ALTAMIRANO HIDALGOSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIA2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
JUAN ELI VILLALOBOS VILLALOBOSSINDICATURAS SUPLENTE2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
JUAN JOSE ALVAREZ CONEJOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARIA MARGARITA MUÑOZ CARVAJALCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
LAURA YORLENY MIRANDA SANCHEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
NANCY EUGENIA MURILLO MESENCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024FRENTE AMPLIOprincipal
CALEB GUSTAVO RIVERA NUÑEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
CARMEN OBANDO RIVERACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
FANNY MAGALI RODRIGUEZ ANCHIACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
ANGIE VANESSA RODRIGUEZ JIMENEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024FRENTE AMPLIOsubstitute
NANCY MARIA CORDOBA DIAZSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIA2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
JORDAN RODRIGO BOLAÑOS SEGURASÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
CARMEN OBANDO RIVERACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
KEVIN DANIEL BARRANTES ALVARADOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
RONALD CASTRO CHACONCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
MARIA DEL ROCIO VILLALOBOS ARROYOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020FRENTE AMPLIOprincipal
LEONARDO FABIO ROMAN CASTROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MARIA EUGENIA FONSECA CASTROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
FABRICIO ESPINOZA ROJASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
JOSE MANUEL SANDI MORALESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020FRENTE AMPLIOsubstitute
NANCY MARIA CORDOBA DIAZSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIA2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
EDGAR ANTONIO GARRO VALENCIANOSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MARIA MARGARITA MUÑOZ CARVAJALCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
JUAN JOSE CARMONA CHAVESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARIA DE LOS ANGELES BOLAÑOS AGUILARCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARIANO CHACON RIVASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
SANDRA MARIA ALTAMIRANO HIDALGOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
JORGE ENRIQUE CASCANTE HERNANDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MARIA PAZ LEON ZUÑIGACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
LORENA MARIA CALVO SANCHEZCONCEJALES 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. “ULLOA — Syndic and district council — shared ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-D-HEREDIA-HEREDIA-ULLOA. Sources: costa-rica--url-ae6cfb21525f974d8912a00e, costa-rica--url-9b0bf8940eb485b811da317e, costa-rica--url-f8a1e09c9e89a7e5e9c55114, costa-rica--Sc1df243471, costa-rica--Sfb419ca2b7, costa-rica--Sfa91292290, costa-rica--Sc03f18b1f4, costa-rica--S79669f3e5d, costa-rica--S54bdbf463c.