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CONCEPCIÓN — Syndic and district council — shared ballot
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CONCEPCIÓN — 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: 18.8/100. 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 23.8 points; earlier interval 18.2 points; two-interval mean 21.0 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 CRISTIANA41541.92%3
AVANCE ISIDREÑO31531.82%1
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL20420.61%1
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA303.03%0
LIBERAL PROGRESISTA262.63%0

Result source · PDF page 526; 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
MINOR BOLIVAR OROZCO VALERIOSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIOUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
KAROL GABRIELA MORA ARIASSINDICATURAS SUPLENTEUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
MARIA DEL CARMEN BRENES VENEGASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
ALEXANDER MADRIGAL FONSECACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
MIGUEL ANGEL BRENES FERNANDEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASAVANCE ISIDREÑONoDeclaration
DILANA DE LOS ANGELES FONSECA RODRIGUEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
HELLEN DE LOS ANGELES LEON CORTESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
LUIS DIEGO ARCE LEONCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
ULISES VILLALOBOS GONZALEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESAVANCE ISIDREÑOYesDeclaration
DIANA CAROLINA JAEN ARGUELLOCONCEJALÍAS 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 CRISTIANA45555.62%3
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL21225.92%1
UNIDOS PODEMOS11213.69%1
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA394.77%0

Result source · Sheet 4.58; 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
FRANCISCO JAVIER MADRIGAL MADRIGALSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
HELLEN DE LOS ANGELES LEON CORTESSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTEUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
IBELL MARCELA MADRIGAL VALERIOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
ALEXANDER MADRIGAL FONSECACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
ROBERTO CASTILLO VENEGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
EDDY ENRIQUE CASTRO CHAVARRIACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDOS PODEMOSNoDeclaration
LUIS DIEGO ARCE LEONCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
MARCENETT FONSECA MADRIGALCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
CLARIBEL VENEGAS VARGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
GRACE MARIA OROZCO CESPEDESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDOS PODEMOSYesDeclaration
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 CRISTIANA51351.15%3
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL38538.38%2
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA656.48%0
FRENTE AMPLIO323.19%0
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO80.80%0

Result source · Sheet 4.57; 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
FRANCISCO JAVIER MADRIGAL MADRIGALSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
MILENA VILLALOBOS MADRIGALSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTEUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
ALEXANDER MADRIGAL FONSECACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
IBELL MARCELA MADRIGAL VALERIOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
CLARIBEL VENEGAS VARGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
LUIS GUILLERMO MASIS MORACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MARCENETT FONSECA MADRIGALCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
FRANCISCO RAMIREZ VILLALOBOSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
GERARDO ALBERTO RAMIREZ BRENESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
FANNY VANESSA MADRIGAL ARCECONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration

Snapshot 13 September 2026. Fixed election window 8 September 2026 to 8 March 2028. Record CR-D-HEREDIA-SAN-ISIDRO-CONCEPCION.