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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: 47.1/100. 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 40.8 points; earlier interval 17.1 points; two-interval mean 28.9 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
BIENESTAR RAFAELEÑO40729.95%3
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL37727.74%1
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA33124.36%1
FRENTE AMPLIO1017.43%0
LIBERAL PROGRESISTA805.89%0
PUEBLO SOBERANO634.64%0

Result source · PDF page 525; district 5 · 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
MARIA AIDALY VALERIO CHAVESSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIABIENESTAR RAFAELEÑONoDeclaration
DAVID GERARDO ARMAS BADILLACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASBIENESTAR RAFAELEÑONoDeclaration
ANA CECILIA SANCHEZ VARGASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASBIENESTAR RAFAELEÑONoDeclaration
ANA PATRICIA RAMIREZ VARGASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MARYE CARLINA CAMPOS ORTIZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
JESUS GERARDO DEL CARMEN SANCHEZ CHAVERRICONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESBIENESTAR RAFAELEÑOYesDeclaration
MICHELLE VANESSA BRENES MOREIRACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESBIENESTAR RAFAELEÑOYesDeclaration
PILAR STELLA SANCHEZ CAMACHOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
JOSELYN PATRICIA RIVERA MARINCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
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
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL52744.81%4
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA24320.66%1
FRENTE AMPLIO19416.50%0
NUEVA REPÚBLICA958.08%0
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA776.55%0
UNIDOS PODEMOS403.40%0

Result source · Sheet 4.57; district 5 · 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
ANDREY JESUS RODRIGUEZ ARCESÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ALBA LUZ GUERRERO VARGASSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
ANA PATRICIA RAMIREZ VARGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
JOSE EMANUEL CAMACHO RAMIREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
LORENA SANCHEZ HERNANDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MINOR ROBLES VARGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
JOSE MARIA RAMIREZ GUERREROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
PILAR STELLA SANCHEZ CAMACHOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
NOEL ALBERTO PADILLA GAMBOACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
STEPHANIE REBECA GARCIA ESQUIVELCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
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 NACIONAL39740.30%3
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA19920.20%1
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA15816.04%1
FRENTE AMPLIO15615.84%0
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO757.61%0

Result source · Sheet 4.56; district 5 · 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
GUSTAVO AGUILAR MARINSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
JOHANNA CANALES GOMEZSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
JUAN DANIEL RAMIREZ SANCHEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ALBA LUZ GUERRERO VARGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MAYNOR ESPINOZA CHAVERRICONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
HUBERT HERNANDEZ ESPINOZACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)ACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
LADY MAYELA ARGUEDAS ALFAROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
SILVER CANALES GOMEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
YORLENY MARIA CANALES GOMEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
ANA CECILIA SANCHEZ VARGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration

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