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SANTO DOMINGO — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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Costa Rica · SANTO DOMINGO / HEREDIA · other · Syndic and district council — shared ballotCR-D-HEREDIA-SANTO-DOMINGO-SANTO-DOMINGO

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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
SANTO DOMINGO / HEREDIA
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-081b507177b1d7b298e49b3e
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

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL26.6%
  • MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGO24.7%
  • LIBERAL PROGRESISTA11.5%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA10.7%
  • UNIÓN DOMINGUEÑA10.4%
  • JUSTICIA SOCIAL COSTARRICENSE8.5%
  • PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICO4.9%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA2.7%
Results for event-75bb90a584d85b77cb117d86
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202464726.6%3Recorded
MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202460024.7%2Recorded
LIBERAL PROGRESISTAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202427911.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202426010.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIÓN DOMINGUEÑAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202425310.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
JUSTICIA SOCIAL COSTARRICENSEcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20242078.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241204.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024662.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGO33.6%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL29.8%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA15.3%
  • UNIÓN DOMINGUEÑA13.0%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA5.0%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL3.3%
Results for event-c183329d87443434200815ce
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202095533.6%3Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202084829.8%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202043415.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIÓN DOMINGUEÑAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202037013%1Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201435%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020933.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGO38.1%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL27.1%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA20.4%
  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN7.2%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA5.7%
  • MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO1.5%
Results for event-d75bcaf38e3ef667b976c0a6
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161,07538.1%3Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201676527.1%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201657520.4%1Recorded
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20162027.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161625.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016411.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

83.060–100 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=1.9325657894736814, oldest_gap=10.992907801418436, previous_gap=3.7636299683433023

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

19.12percentage 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=[[26.60361842105263,10.69078947368421,0,0,0,2.713815789473684,0,0,0,0,11.47203947368421,4.934210526315789,43.58552631578948],[29.827646851916988,15.265564544495252,5.029897995075625,0,3.2711924023918395,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,46.605698206120294],[27.127659574468087,20.390070921985817,5.74468085106383,0,0,0,1.4539007092198581,0,0,0,0,0,45.28368794326241]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

7.29percentage 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=[[26.60361842105263,10.69078947368421,0,0,0,2.713815789473684,0,0,0,0,11.47203947368421,4.934210526315789,43.58552631578948],[29.827646851916988,15.265564544495252,5.029897995075625,0,3.2711924023918395,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,46.605698206120294],[27.127659574468087,20.390070921985817,5.74468085106383,0,0,0,1.4539007092198581,0,0,0,0,0,45.28368794326241]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

13.21percentage 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=[[26.60361842105263,10.69078947368421,0,0,0,2.713815789473684,0,0,0,0,11.47203947368421,4.934210526315789,43.58552631578948],[29.827646851916988,15.265564544495252,5.029897995075625,0,3.2711924023918395,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,46.605698206120294],[27.127659574468087,20.390070921985817,5.74468085106383,0,0,0,1.4539007092198581,0,0,0,0,0,45.28368794326241]]

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?
LUIS GUILLERMO UMAÑA MATAMOROSSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIO2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ROXANA GABRIELA CALDERON MONGESINDICATURAS SUPLENTE2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
EFRAIN FERNANDEZ MATACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
DINA REBECA SOLANO MURILLOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
LISA MARIA SALAS RAMIREZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGOprincipal
HENRY ALEXANDER SOLIS JIMENEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGOprincipal
RANDALL FRANCISCO VARGAS CHACONCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
YOLANDA MATAMOROS MATACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
SANDRA IVETTE BARQUERO ARCECONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGOsubstitute
ARMANDO ENRIQUE VASQUEZ ROJASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGOsubstitute
VICTOR HUGO BARQUERO CANTILLANOSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2020MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGOprincipal
JUAN FRANCISCO SANCHEZ RODRIGUEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGOprincipal
SILVIA ELENA BOLIVAR FLORESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGOprincipal
JOSE FRANCISCO BRENES LEONCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARIA GABRIELA ULATE GONZALEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIÓN DOMINGUEÑAprincipal
YENCI DANIELA RODRIGUEZ BARQUEROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGOsubstitute
ABELARDO CHACON DELGADOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGOsubstitute
VALERIA LEON VILLALOBOSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
CINDY GABRIELA MATARRITA SALASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020UNIÓN DOMINGUEÑAsubstitute
PEDRO MELENDEZ CASTROSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2016MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGOprincipal
LIDIETH MARIA ARCE CHAVESSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2016MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGOsubstitute
CARMEN MARIA CHACON OCAMPOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGOprincipal
SEBASTIAN BOLAÑOS VILLALOBOSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGOprincipal
MARIA GABRIELA ULATE GONZALEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
NATALIA GABRIELA VARGAS PEÑARANDACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
JOSE PABLO AZOFEIFA RETANACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGOsubstitute
MARIA BERNADETTE ESQUIVEL MORALESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016MOVIMIENTO AVANCE SANTO DOMINGOsubstitute
LUIS FERNANDO AZOFEIFA ASTUACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
GABRIELA ISABEL RAMIREZ BOLAÑOSCONCEJALES 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. “SANTO DOMINGO — Syndic and district council — shared ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-D-HEREDIA-SANTO-DOMINGO-SANTO-DOMINGO. Sources: costa-rica--url-ae6cfb21525f974d8912a00e, costa-rica--url-9b0bf8940eb485b811da317e, costa-rica--url-f8a1e09c9e89a7e5e9c55114, costa-rica--Sc1df243471, costa-rica--Sfded7b8dda, costa-rica--Sfa91292290, costa-rica--S4de1f90aaf, costa-rica--S79669f3e5d, costa-rica--S7911d2c9dc.