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BRATSI — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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Costa Rica · BRATSI / LIMÓN · other · Syndic and district council — shared ballotCR-D-LIMON-TALAMANCA-BRATSI

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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
BRATSI / LIMÓN
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-cee471ffbe4127c491cd3e0f
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

  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA43.5%
  • JUSTICIA SOCIAL COSTARRICENSE32.9%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL11.6%
  • LIBERAL PROGRESISTA8.1%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA1.7%
  • AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA1.6%
  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN0.7%
Results for event-d65cbccf023fec1c92d51fd0
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241,41843.5%3Recorded
JUSTICIA SOCIAL COSTARRICENSEcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241,07232.9%2Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202438011.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
LIBERAL PROGRESISTAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20242638.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024541.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024531.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024220.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA43.0%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL21.0%
  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN10.4%
  • DESARROLLO TALAMANQUEÑO6.0%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL5.3%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA5.0%
  • AUTÉNTICO LIMONENSE4.2%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO2.7%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO1.8%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA0.6%
Results for event-d8566f15626a06bcc24be110
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201,47543%3Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202072221%2Recorded
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202035810.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
DESARROLLO TALAMANQUEÑOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202056%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201835.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201715%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
AUTÉNTICO LIMONENSEcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201434.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020912.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020631.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020200.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA35.6%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL29.9%
  • MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO15.4%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO6.4%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO5.8%
  • RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSE4.5%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA2.4%
Results for event-f49f40f2a3dd272a732066d9
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201690735.6%3Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201676229.9%1Recorded
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201639315.4%1Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161636.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161485.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSEcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161154.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016622.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

32.420–100 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=10.60698957694666, oldest_gap=5.686274509803923, previous_gap=21.946954240746138

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

23.13percentage 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=[[11.649294911097487,43.470263641937464,0,0,0,1.6554261189454322,0,0,0,0,8.06253832004905,0,35.16247700797057],[21.0434275721364,42.99038181288254,0.5829204313611193,1.8361993587875256,5.333721946954241,4.983969688137569,0,0,0,2.652287962693092,0,0,20.57709122704751],[29.88235294117647,35.568627450980394,2.4313725490196076,5.803921568627451,0,0,15.411764705882353,0,0,6.392156862745098,0,0,4.509803921568627]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

33.81percentage 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=[[11.649294911097487,43.470263641937464,0,0,0,1.6554261189454322,0,0,0,0,8.06253832004905,0,35.16247700797057],[21.0434275721364,42.99038181288254,0.5829204313611193,1.8361993587875256,5.333721946954241,4.983969688137569,0,0,0,2.652287962693092,0,0,20.57709122704751],[29.88235294117647,35.568627450980394,2.4313725490196076,5.803921568627451,0,0,15.411764705882353,0,0,6.392156862745098,0,0,4.509803921568627]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

28.47percentage 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=[[11.649294911097487,43.470263641937464,0,0,0,1.6554261189454322,0,0,0,0,8.06253832004905,0,35.16247700797057],[21.0434275721364,42.99038181288254,0.5829204313611193,1.8361993587875256,5.333721946954241,4.983969688137569,0,0,0,2.652287962693092,0,0,20.57709122704751],[29.88235294117647,35.568627450980394,2.4313725490196076,5.803921568627451,0,0,15.411764705882353,0,0,6.392156862745098,0,0,4.509803921568627]]

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?
MARIBEL PITA RODRIGUEZSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIA2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
RAFAEL ANGEL GUTIERREZ ALFAROSINDICATURAS SUPLENTE2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
DORIS MERCEDES MENDEZ BLANCOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
FRANCO HERNAN JIMENEZ ACOSTACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
HECTOR BARRANTES CANALESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024JUSTICIA SOCIAL COSTARRICENSEprincipal
NIDIA VALLADARES ROMEROCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024JUSTICIA SOCIAL COSTARRICENSEprincipal
GLORIA SELLES JIMENEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
OMAR ALBERTO ZUÑIGA PITACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
FRANCISCO MORALES MORALESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024JUSTICIA SOCIAL COSTARRICENSEsubstitute
HEIMY YUDELQUI MIRANDA SARABIACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024JUSTICIA SOCIAL COSTARRICENSEsubstitute
MARIBEL PITA RODRIGUEZSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIA2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
MIGUEL ADOLFO PITA SELLESSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
DENIS VILLALOBOS ARCECONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
CARINA ADONAY MORALES HERNANDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
SOFIA LORENA CASCANTE HERNANDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ADALBERTO MORALES PITACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
YANINA LORENA LYNCH GARCIACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
RENDOLF MANUEL MAYORGA MORALESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
WINIS ALVAI MORALES GRANDACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
KEISY SUSANA PALACIOS SELLESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
SARAI ITZEL BLANCO BLANCOSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIA2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
TITO ANIBAL GRANADOS CHAVARRIASÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
LAURA ROXANA PICADO CORDEROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
MARLON EDUARDO PITAR RODRIGUEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
NEMESIO REYES REYESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
DAYAN MARCELA WESLEY GUTIERREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIOprincipal
IRIS RIOS HIDALGOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
RAFAEL ARCANGEL MATARRITA ROSALESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
MARICELA FERNANDEZ FERNANDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
RAFAEL JAVIER BRICEÑO QUESADACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIOsubstitute

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. “BRATSI — Syndic and district council — shared ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-D-LIMON-TALAMANCA-BRATSI. Sources: costa-rica--url-ae6cfb21525f974d8912a00e, costa-rica--url-9b0bf8940eb485b811da317e, costa-rica--url-f8a1e09c9e89a7e5e9c55114, costa-rica--Sc1df243471, costa-rica--Sa1c654d538, costa-rica--Sfa91292290, costa-rica--S156f921f52, costa-rica--S79669f3e5d, costa-rica--S195403d2c6.