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LOS ÁNGELES — Syndic and district council — shared ballot
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LOS ÁNGELES — 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: 71.9/100. 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 33.4 points; earlier interval 23.9 points; two-interval mean 28.6 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 CRISTIANA89027.80%3
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL85326.64%1
BIENESTAR RAFAELEÑO84326.33%1
FRENTE AMPLIO1966.12%0
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA1815.65%0
LIBERAL PROGRESISTA1695.28%0
NUEVA REPÚBLICA702.19%0

Result source · PDF page 525; 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
RAFAEL GERARDO UREÑA GONZALEZSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIOUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
REBECA GONZALEZ MONTEROSINDICATURAS SUPLENTEUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
ANGIE VANESSA CHAVARRIA SANCHEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
MINOR CHACON PEREZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
MARVIN FRANCISCO ZUÑIGA VALERIOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
GINNETH ROJAS SEGURACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASBIENESTAR RAFAELEÑONoDeclaration
KARINA MARIA CHACON RODRIGUEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
LUIS ANGEL HERNANDEZ RODRIGUEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
ALEXIS GUERRERO VARGASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
ALEJANDRA VANESSA MURILLO FONSECACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESBIENESTAR RAFAELEÑOYesDeclaration
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 NACIONAL1,20740.83%3
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA88229.84%2
FRENTE AMPLIO2909.81%0
NUEVA REPÚBLICA2337.88%0
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA2036.87%0
UNIDOS PODEMOS1153.89%0
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO260.88%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
JUAN JOSE ALFARO SANCHEZSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ZULEMA RAMIREZ CHAVARRIASÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MARGUERITE LEE BURKE QUIROSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
JOSE ANTONIO MEZA MARTINEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MILENIA PAEZ SANCHEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
KENNETH ARAYA GARCIACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
ALEXIS GUERRERO VARGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
YULIANA ALFARO ARAYACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
KARINA MARIA CHACON RODRIGUEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
LUIS ANGEL HERNANDEZ RODRIGUEZCONCEJALES 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 NACIONAL1,04537.46%3
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA58921.11%1
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA50718.17%1
FRENTE AMPLIO28810.32%0
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO2177.78%0
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO1445.16%0

Result source · Sheet 4.56; 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
CARMEN MARIA CHACON CHACONSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIALIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
JUAN JOSE ALFARO SANCHEZSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
IGNACIO ANGEL RODRIGUEZ BRAVOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
GABRIELA CHAVARRIA RODRIGUEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MILENIA PAEZ SANCHEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
ANA GABRIELA SANCHEZ LEONCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)ACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
JUANA LIZBETH ACUÑA RAMIREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
JUAN SALAZAR MASISCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
CHRISTIAN GERARDO FAJARDO SANCHEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
FRANCISCO AVENDAÑO SALASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration

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