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CUREÑA — Syndic and district council — shared ballot
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CUREÑA — 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: 18.1/100. 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 17.3 points; earlier interval 24.0 points; two-interval mean 20.6 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 CRISTIANA12755.95%3
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL7332.16%2
AUTÉNTICO SARAPIQUEÑO208.81%0
PUEBLO SOBERANO41.76%0
NUEVA GENERACIÓN20.88%0
NUESTRO PUEBLO10.44%0

Result source · PDF page 531; 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
MAURICIO VIQUEZ SALAZARSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIOUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
MARTHA ELENA ENRIQUEZ LOPEZSINDICATURAS SUPLENTEUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
MAYBELIN KARINA ESQUIVEL BADILLACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
KEILOR GEOVANNI HERNANDEZ ESQUIVELCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
WILFRED OTAROLA VARGASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
GEILYN ROCIO VEGA MENACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
RODINEY LEIVA LOPEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
ANGELA DUARTE SANCHEZCONCEJALÍAS 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 CRISTIANA6940.12%1
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL6638.37%4
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA137.56%0
NUEVA GENERACIÓN126.98%0
UNIDOS PODEMOS63.49%0
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO52.91%0
NUEVA REPÚBLICA10.58%0

Result source · Sheet 4.62; 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
MAURICIO VIQUEZ SALAZARSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
MARTHA ELENA ENRIQUEZ LOPEZSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTEUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
GEINER DANILO CARBALLO RETANACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
LETICIA ELENA RIVERA RUIZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
KEILOR GEOVANNI HERNANDEZ ESQUIVELCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
KAREN CAMBRONERO MONTOYACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
REINIER ANTONIO BARRANTES SALASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
ANDREA MARIA ALVAREZ ALFAROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
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 NACIONAL7052.63%3
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA4936.84%2
FRENTE AMPLIO139.77%0
RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSE10.75%0

Result source · Sheet 4.61; 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
MARTA BEATRIZ LAO JARQUINSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIALIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ROMAN ANTONIO OTAROLA MURILLOSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
KEILOR GEOVANNI HERNANDEZ ESQUIVELCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MARIBEL MARILYN MENDOZA LUQUEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
PEDRO ROBERTO MORALES CRUZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
MARTHA ELENA ENRIQUEZ LOPEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
LETICIA ELENA RIVERA RUIZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MIGUEL VANEGAS RUIZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MARGARITA SALAZAR VARGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
DANIEL OBANDO MOYACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration

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