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SAN PEDRO — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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Costa Rica · SAN PEDRO / HEREDIA · other · Syndic and district council — shared ballotCR-D-HEREDIA-SANTA-BARBARA-SAN-PEDRO

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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.

1. What office, where, and when is the next election?

Geography
SAN PEDRO / HEREDIA
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-e3eb7748fb5a0be98f20e6b7
Registry qualification
Unknown

2. How certain is that date?

2028-02-06 is expected (not formally called). Day precision. A date without a formal call is not confirmed.

3. Who won earlier selected elections?

2024-02-04

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO55.3%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL44.7%
Results for event-2bbb9be93f04333ba4e8e341
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202453255.3%3Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202443044.7%2Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL43.2%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO13.2%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA11.2%
  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN10.9%
  • ALIANZA DEMÓCRATA CRISTIANA9.4%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO4.1%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA3.9%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA3.6%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS0.6%
Results for event-0436c2e8b606acb74c187c32
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202044543.2%4Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202013613.2%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202011511.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202011210.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ALIANZA DEMÓCRATA CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020979.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020424.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020403.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020373.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202060.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL36.3%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO27.4%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA15.1%
  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN14.8%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO6.5%
Results for event-deca83955188c7fd7561934f
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201636636.3%2Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201627627.4%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201615215.1%1Recorded
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201614914.8%1Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016666.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

18.730–100 historical closeness

Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete

Comparison status: Provisional imported-series comparison; actual-event review open

Method ci.weighted-gap.v1. Inputs: latest_gap=10.602910602910598, oldest_gap=8.919722497522297, previous_gap=30

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

43.59percentage 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

Comparison status: Latest interval

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PLN","PUSC","PAC","Frente Amplio","PRN","Nueva Republica","PML","PIN","PASE","PRSC","PLP","PPSD","Other"], interval=Latest interval, vectors=[[44.6985446985447,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,55.3014553014553,0,0,0],[43.20388349514563,11.16504854368932,3.592233009708738,4.077669902912621,0,3.883495145631068,0,0,0,13.20388349514563,0,0,20.873786407766993],[36.27353815659068,15.064420218037661,0,6.541129831516352,0,0,0,0,0,27.353815659068385,0,0,14.767096134786918]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

20.51percentage 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

Comparison status: Previous interval

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PLN","PUSC","PAC","Frente Amplio","PRN","Nueva Republica","PML","PIN","PASE","PRSC","PLP","PPSD","Other"], interval=Previous interval, vectors=[[44.6985446985447,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,55.3014553014553,0,0,0],[43.20388349514563,11.16504854368932,3.592233009708738,4.077669902912621,0,3.883495145631068,0,0,0,13.20388349514563,0,0,20.873786407766993],[36.27353815659068,15.064420218037661,0,6.541129831516352,0,0,0,0,0,27.353815659068385,0,0,14.767096134786918]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

32.05percentage 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

Comparison status: Both intervals mean

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PLN","PUSC","PAC","Frente Amplio","PRN","Nueva Republica","PML","PIN","PASE","PRSC","PLP","PPSD","Other"], interval=Both intervals mean, vectors=[[44.6985446985447,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,55.3014553014553,0,0,0],[43.20388349514563,11.16504854368932,3.592233009708738,4.077669902912621,0,3.883495145631068,0,0,0,13.20388349514563,0,0,20.873786407766993],[36.27353815659068,15.064420218037661,0,6.541129831516352,0,0,0,0,0,27.353815659068385,0,0,14.767096134786918]]

Source-reported control: Unverified. Current tenure requires separate dated evidence.

5. Officeholder evidence

Dated roster observations are not automatically current tenure. The source current-office flag means this office is tracked now, not that the last winner still holds it.

Officeholder observations
PersonRoleAs ofAffiliationPrincipal?
CARLOS GERARDO BARRANTES DELGADOSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIO2024REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOprincipal
HILDA MARIA ULATE ARIASSINDICATURAS SUPLENTE2024REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOsubstitute
LUIS FABIO ZUMBADO PORTUGUEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOprincipal
ENID ROJAS PERALTACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOprincipal
ADRIANA OMAIRA ZAPATA ACEVEDOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
DAVID GERARDO SEGURA SANCHEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
FLOR DE MARIA ARIAS ARIASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
GUSTAVO ADOLFO ACUÑA ARCECONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
SILVIA MARIA ARIAS SALASSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIA2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
HUGO ALONSO SANCHEZ SOLORZANOSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ANDREA ORTIZ CESPEDESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
DAVID ALFREDO CORTES SANCHEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
GLORIANA PANIAGUA ARRIETACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MANUEL EMILIO SANCHEZ MONTOYACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOprincipal
JACQUELINE SEGURA RODRIGUEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
EIMER GERARDO ARCE ALFAROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ANDREA CAROLINA AGUILAR CARVAJALCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
FLOR MARIA ARIAS SANDOVALCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOsubstitute
HENRY EDUARDO CESPEDES ALFAROSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
DAYANA CAROLINA SOTO VILLALOBOSSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
SERGIO HERNAN CHAVARRIA SOTOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
KATHIA BASTOS PEREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOprincipal
DAVID ALONSO ALFARO QUIROSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
JESSENIA SANCHEZ ALFAROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016NUEVA GENERACIÓNprincipal
GIMSELP MARIA SALAS JIMENEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
WILLIAM VILLALOBOS JIMENEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOsubstitute
NOEMI ARIAS ARIASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute

6. Polling context

No local poll supplied.

7. Unresolved issues and sources

  • other · open

    Published province heading correction: {"issue": "Published province heading correction", "year": 2020, "area": "Heredia", "source_id": "S41377daad8", "resolution": "The amendment corrects CARTAGO to HEREDIA in the second table heading. It changes no votes, winners or seats; the original declaration is joined to Heredia."}

Sources

Cite this record

Center for Digital Democracy. “SAN PEDRO — Syndic and district council — shared ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-D-HEREDIA-SANTA-BARBARA-SAN-PEDRO. Sources: costa-rica--url-ae6cfb21525f974d8912a00e, costa-rica--url-9b0bf8940eb485b811da317e, costa-rica--url-f8a1e09c9e89a7e5e9c55114, costa-rica--Sc1df243471, costa-rica--Sf6843b6eaf, costa-rica--Sfa91292290, costa-rica--S8184b8d295, costa-rica--S79669f3e5d, costa-rica--S51d022c29b.