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BATÁN — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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BATÁN — Syndic and district council — shared ballot
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BATÁN — 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 38.9 points; earlier interval 30.6 points; two-interval mean 34.8 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 CRISTIANA3,37972.81%5
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL55712.00%0
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA2765.95%0
NUEVA REPÚBLICA1693.64%0
UNIDOS PODEMOS1553.34%0
NUESTRO PUEBLO1052.26%0

Result source · PDF page 577; district 2 · 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
HERMINIA GUTIERREZ VILLAGRASINDICATURAS PROPIETARIAUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
JUNIOR ANDRES MURILLO VALLESSINDICATURAS SUPLENTEUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
KATHERINE LEITON CASTILLOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
JUAN FRANCISCO GUTIERREZ ROMEROCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
LEDA MATA RAMIREZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
ROSE MARY ARAYA CHAVARRIACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
DAVID ESTEBAN RAMIREZ MORENOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
ERIKA GOMEZ DARKINESCONCEJALÍAS 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
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA1,69334.38%3
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL1,14123.17%2
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL51810.52%0
UNIDOS PODEMOS4619.36%0
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO3457.01%0
ACCESIBILIDAD SIN EXCLUSIÓN2505.08%0
NUEVA REPÚBLICA1543.13%0
JUSTICIA SOCIAL COSTARRICENSE1312.66%0
NUEVA GENERACIÓN1162.36%0
AUTÉNTICO LIMONENSE1062.15%0
IZQUIERDA COSTARRICENSE90.18%0

Result source · Sheet 4.89; district 2 · 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 ANTONIO ALVARADO SOTOSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
MARJORIE CAMPOS MC KENZIESÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTEUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
LEONARDO FABIO GUZMAN DURANCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
ANGELICA OVARES LEALCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
GISELLA CAMBRONERO WASHCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
JOSE ENRIQUE VASQUEZ HERNANDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MARIO ALBERTO JUAREZ MONTEROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
ARYERY MELISA MORALES RODRIGUEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
JENNIFER TATIANA CRUZ FUENTESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
JUNIOR ALBERTO MENDOZA MARTINEZCONCEJALES 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 NACIONAL1,38327.97%3
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA1,24825.24%1
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO98920.00%1
RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSE60012.14%0
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA4128.33%0
FRENTE AMPLIO1342.71%0
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO881.78%0
ACCESIBILIDAD SIN EXCLUSIÓN771.56%0
RECUPERANDO VALORES130.26%0

Result source · Sheet 4.88; district 2 · 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
MARGARITA CASTILLO LEONSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIALIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
GUIDO JAVIER ALVARADO QUESADASÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MARIO ALBERTO SALAZAR VILLEGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
PAULA VASQUEZ HERNANDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MARJORIE CAMPOS MC KENZIECONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
JOSE NEMESIO GARCIA GARCIACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANONoDeclaration
KELLY TALAVERA QUESADACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
GEINER FRANCISCO FERNANDEZ PANIAGUACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MARIA ELENA FUENTES RODRIGUEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
HILDA MARIELA DIAZ OLIVASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESREPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOYesDeclaration

Snapshot 13 September 2026. Fixed election window 8 September 2026 to 8 March 2028. Record CR-D-LIMON-MATINA-BATAN.