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SAN PABLO — Syndic and district council — shared ballot
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SAN PABLO — 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 31.6 points; earlier interval 21.6 points; two-interval mean 26.6 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 CRISTIANA3,27060.17%4
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL1,21922.43%1
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA54910.10%0
FRENTE AMPLIO3977.30%0

Result source · PDF page 529; district 1 · 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
SONIA VILLALOBOS GUTIERREZSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIAUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
KENETH ALONSO RAMIREZ GUTIERREZSINDICATURAS SUPLENTEUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
KAREN CRISTINA BADILLA CHAVESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
OLMAN GERARDO AGUILAR CHACONCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
MARIANGEL PORRAS BENAVIDESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
CHRISTIAN ROBERTO JIMENEZ SEQUEIRACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
KATTIA ROXANA JIMENEZ ZAMORACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
ALLAN GERARDO CHAVES MARINCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
CYNTHIA MARIN SALAZARCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
SEBASTIAN NAVARRO ARRIETACONCEJALÍAS 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 CRISTIANA2,59743.31%3
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL1,50625.12%1
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA96316.06%1
NUEVA REPÚBLICA77212.88%0
UNIDOS PODEMOS1582.64%0

Result source · Sheet 4.61; district 1 · 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
RODOLFO JOSE ACOSTA CHACONSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
HAZEL ELENA AGUIRRE ALVAREZSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTEUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
ERIC ANTONIO UGALDE SOTOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
YANNEL AILIN JIMENEZ GONZALEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
MARIA FERNANDA ORTEGA MASISCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MARIA DEL MILAGRO EDUARTE VILLALOBOSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)ACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
MARIA EUGENIA GUTIERREZ CAMBRONEROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
LUIS GUILLERMO BENAVIDES CASTROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
SILVIA ELENA PORRAS GONZALEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
FERNAN SAENZ SOTOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration
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 CRISTIANA2,53943.51%3
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL1,64828.24%2
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL4928.43%0
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA4277.32%0
FRENTE AMPLIO3636.22%0
NUEVA GENERACIÓN2884.94%0
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO781.34%0

Result source · Sheet 4.60; district 1 · 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
YOHAN MANUEL GRANDA MONGESÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
ERICKA ROXANA ESQUIVEL ZAMORASÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTEUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
PAULA FRANCHESKI MADDENCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
JOAQUIN BERNARDO LARIOS BRENESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
YENSY RAQUEL VILLALOBOS CORDOBACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
VICTOR HUGO CORDERO CENTENOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
OLGER RAFAEL ZUÑIGA ARIASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
FLOR DE MARIA CABALCETA RAMIREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
MARJORIE RODRIGUEZ NUÑEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration

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