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SAN FRANCISCO — 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: 50.3/100. 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 33.1 points; two-interval mean 28.4 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
AVANCE ISIDREÑO32440.05%3
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA25331.27%1
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL17421.51%1
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA587.17%0

Result source · PDF page 526; 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
CARLOS FRANCISCO GONZALEZ RUBISINDICATURAS PROPIETARIOAVANCE ISIDREÑONoDeclaration
MINDY PAULETTE FONSECA RUBISINDICATURAS SUPLENTEAVANCE ISIDREÑOYesDeclaration
ALVARO ALONSO RODRIGUEZ ESPINOZACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASAVANCE ISIDREÑONoDeclaration
GAUDY ALEJANDRA GONZALEZ HIDALGOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASAVANCE ISIDREÑONoDeclaration
JULIANA MARIA CAMACHO SANCHEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
RICARDO MAURICIO GUZMAN SEGURACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
GUSTAVO ADOLFO RUBI CORTESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESAVANCE ISIDREÑOYesDeclaration
ADRIANA LUCIA DURAN ALVARADOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESAVANCE ISIDREÑOYesDeclaration
ROSIBELL ZAMORA CAMPOSCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
JOSUE PEREZ SANDICONCEJALÍAS 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 CRISTIANA32845.05%3
UNIDOS PODEMOS23532.28%1
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL9212.64%1
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA7310.03%0

Result source · Sheet 4.58; 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
JOSE DAVID MENA ZUÑIGASÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
FATIMA FAINIERY ALVARADO MONTOYASÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTEUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
EMILIA MARIA SOLIS ARGUEDASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
EDWIN RODRIGUEZ VILLALOBOSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
OSCAR EDUARDO VILLALOBOS ZAMORACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDOS PODEMOSNoDeclaration
GREGORIO SANCHEZ VILLALOBOSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ROSIBELL ZAMORA CAMPOSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
DERING STIVEN ARCE VILLALOBOSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
NATALIA HERNANDEZ BRICEÑOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDOS PODEMOSYesDeclaration
ZIANY VINDAS RAMIREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
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 CRISTIANA29842.82%3
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL23934.34%1
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA14020.11%1
NUEVA GENERACIÓN101.44%0
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO91.29%0

Result source · Sheet 4.57; 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
RANDALL SANCHEZ GONZALEZSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
RAQUEL GONZALEZ ARIASSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTEUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
JULIO ALBERTO RODRIGUEZ VARGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
MONICA VANESSA VILLALOBOS RODRIGUEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
KATHERINE VANESSA HERNANDEZ HIDALGOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MARIA LORENA VILLEGAS ZUÑIGACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)ACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
EDWIN RODRIGUEZ VILLALOBOSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
MARIANELA ZUÑIGA GONZALEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
ROBERTO ALONSO PIZARRO VALERIOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
RANDALL ALVARADO VILLALOBOSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration

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