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COLINAS — Syndic and district council — shared ballot
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COLINAS — 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 45.8 points; earlier interval 41.2 points; two-interval mean 43.5 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 NACIONAL15554.20%4
NUEVA REPÚBLICA7425.87%1
LIBERAL PROGRESISTA3612.59%0
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA217.34%0

Result source · PDF page 553; district 6 · 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
BENJAMIN NUÑEZ QUESADASINDICATURAS PROPIETARIOLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ESTER CAMACHO MONTENEGROSINDICATURAS SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
FLORA FONSECA GAMBOACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ROBERTO GAMBOA AMADORCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
SAILYN MARIA BARRANTES MONTENEGROCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
JOSE PABLO RUIZ RODRIGUEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASNUEVA REPÚBLICANoDeclaration
ILLIANA MORA GODINEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
FRANKLIN BOLIVAR RODRIGUEZ MORACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
AMALIA AMADOR PICADOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MARIBEL RUIZ RODRIGUEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESNUEVA REPÚBLICAYesDeclaration
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 NACIONAL29282.49%4
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA5214.69%1
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL102.82%0

Result source · Sheet 4.76; district 6 · 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
ROBERTO GAMBOA AMADORSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ILLIANA MORA GODINEZSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MISAEL BALDERRAMA DUARTECONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ERIKA ISAURA MENDEZ MENACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
GEOVANNY MONTENEGRO CAMACHOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
FRANKLIN BOLIVAR RODRIGUEZ MORACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
YESENIA CRUZ NAVARROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MICHAEL MENDEZ FONSECACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
AMALIA AMADOR PICADOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
ANNIA GOMEZ AGUEROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
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 NACIONAL11744.15%3
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA7929.81%1
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA6123.02%1
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO62.26%0
NUEVA GENERACIÓN20.75%0

Result source · Sheet 4.75; district 6 · 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
ROBERTO GAMBOA AMADORSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ESTER CAMACHO MONTENEGROSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
RAMON CAMPOS PRENDASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
LILIANA GOMEZ FERNANDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ILLIANA MORA GODINEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
FRANKLIN BOLIVAR RODRIGUEZ MORACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)ACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
ELIZABETH VALVERDE GAMBOACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
LUCAS AGUERO FLORESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
SILVIA MATA AGUEROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
NURIA DELGADO BADILLACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration

Snapshot 13 September 2026. Fixed election window 8 September 2026 to 8 March 2028. Record CR-D-PUNTARENAS-BUENOS-AIRES-COLINAS.