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PUERTO VIEJO — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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PUERTO VIEJO — Syndic and district council — shared ballot
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PUERTO VIEJO — 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: 0.0/100. 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 28.0 points; earlier interval 25.8 points; two-interval mean 26.9 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
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL1,96949.61%4
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA86821.87%1
AUTÉNTICO SARAPIQUEÑO3107.81%0
NUEVA GENERACIÓN2556.42%0
PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICO2025.09%0
PUEBLO SOBERANO1824.59%0
NUEVA REPÚBLICA1012.54%0
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA471.18%0
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA190.48%0
NUESTRO PUEBLO160.40%0

Result source · PDF page 530; district 1 · 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
JAVIER GERARDO ESTRADA ESTRADASINDICATURAS PROPIETARIOLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
OLGA MARTA DUARTE THOMPSONSINDICATURAS SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MARVELY JOHANNA MARTINEZ MENDEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ELIAN FRANCISCO GARCIA VICTORCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MAYRA SEGURA MADRIGALCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MARIA CECILIA GOMEZ GOMEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
YOJAIDY FONSECA BERMUDEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
LUIS ALBERTO MORALES ZUÑIGACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
RACHELL VANESSA SOTO NAVARROCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
DONALDO ROMERO ENRIQUEZCONCEJALÍAS 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 NACIONAL1,38437.06%3
NUEVA REPÚBLICA72519.42%1
NUEVA GENERACIÓN47412.69%1
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA43111.54%0
RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSE2677.15%0
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA2095.60%0
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO852.28%0
UNIDOS PODEMOS762.04%0
FRENTE AMPLIO491.31%0
INTEGRACIÓN NACIONAL340.91%0

Result source · Sheet 4.62; district 1 · 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
RODOLFO MANZANARES CLARKSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
YERLIN ARLETTE URBINA MENDEZSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
JOSE ALEXANDER MAYORGA BARRANTESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ANA SANCHEZ TRAÑACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
REINA ISABEL MATTUS MIRANDACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)NUEVA REPÚBLICANoDeclaration
FREDDY VARELA MUÑOZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)NUEVA GENERACIÓNNoDeclaration
IRENE GOMEZ MENDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
SIXTO ALEMAN FAJARDOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
OSCAR DANIEL QUIROS ZUÑIGACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESNUEVA REPÚBLICAYesDeclaration
MARTHA LORENA MIRANDA SERRANOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESNUEVA GENERACIÓNYesDeclaration
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 NACIONAL1,44744.21%3
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA63419.37%1
NUEVA GENERACIÓN41912.80%1
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA2969.04%0
FRENTE AMPLIO2607.94%0
RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSE1183.61%0
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO993.02%0

Result source · Sheet 4.61; district 1 · 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
RODOLFO MANZANARES CLARKSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
YERLIN ARLETTE URBINA MENDEZSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
ALICIA MARIA ARROYO MURILLOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
JOSE ALEXANDER MAYORGA BARRANTESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
CARLOS DIEGO RODRIGUEZ LAGOSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
ISIDRO CALDERON HERNANDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)NUEVA GENERACIÓNNoDeclaration
SHIRLEY LORENA ALVARADO NUÑEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
JAIME VARGAS RAMIREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
YOHAIDY MARIELA GOMEZ ACUÑACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration

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