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PILAS — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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Costa Rica · PILAS / PUNTARENAS · other · Syndic and district council — shared ballotCR-D-PUNTARENAS-BUENOS-AIRES-PILAS

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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
PILAS / PUNTARENAS
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-d8d4b02556ad4e657d58ffb9
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

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL60.9%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA18.3%
  • LIBERAL PROGRESISTA13.2%
  • AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA7.5%
Results for event-520d4d0a821975d43a00be0d
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202422660.9%3Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20246818.3%1Recorded
LIBERAL PROGRESISTAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20244913.2%1Recorded
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024287.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL60.3%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA21.2%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL14.4%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA4.1%
Results for event-3f047a7b6b160d69c1cd9c6d
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202029360.3%4Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202010321.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20207014.4%1Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020204.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL54.6%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA36.8%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO4.8%
  • VIVA PUNTARENAS3.8%
Results for event-304c797948ed23ef63110432
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201621554.6%3Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201614536.8%2Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016194.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
VIVA PUNTARENAScosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016153.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

0 (recorded zero)0–100 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=42.58760107816711, oldest_gap=17.766497461928935, previous_gap=39.09465020576131

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

35.6percentage 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=[[60.91644204851752,0,0,0,0,18.328840970350406,0,0,0,0,13.20754716981132,0,7.547169811320755],[60.288065843621396,21.19341563786008,0,0,14.40329218106996,4.11522633744856,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],[54.568527918781726,0,36.80203045685279,0,0,0,0,0,0,4.822335025380711,0,0,3.8071065989847717]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

45.43percentage 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=[[60.91644204851752,0,0,0,0,18.328840970350406,0,0,0,0,13.20754716981132,0,7.547169811320755],[60.288065843621396,21.19341563786008,0,0,14.40329218106996,4.11522633744856,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],[54.568527918781726,0,36.80203045685279,0,0,0,0,0,0,4.822335025380711,0,0,3.8071065989847717]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

40.51percentage 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=[[60.91644204851752,0,0,0,0,18.328840970350406,0,0,0,0,13.20754716981132,0,7.547169811320755],[60.288065843621396,21.19341563786008,0,0,14.40329218106996,4.11522633744856,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],[54.568527918781726,0,36.80203045685279,0,0,0,0,0,0,4.822335025380711,0,0,3.8071065989847717]]

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?
VICTOR JULIO FALLAS MORASINDICATURAS PROPIETARIO2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
GRACE GONZALEZ GONZALEZSINDICATURAS SUPLENTE2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ROBERT ALEJANDRO ATENCIO BLANCOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
JEANNETTE OBANDO BENAVIDESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
DEILY CASCANTE QUIROSCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024NUEVA REPÚBLICAprincipal
LORENA RIOS OBANDOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERAL PROGRESISTAprincipal
ALFREDO JIMENEZ MORALESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MIRIAM CEDEÑO PALACIOSCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
OLDEMAR ZUÑIGA BORBONCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024NUEVA REPÚBLICAsubstitute
ESTEFANIA FIGUEROA CABRERACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERAL PROGRESISTAsubstitute
ROBERT ALEJANDRO ATENCIO BLANCOSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
SUSANA ACUÑA FERNANDEZSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
OSCAR BATISTA SANCHEZ CHACONCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ROCIO ARIAS VARGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ALFREDO JIMENEZ MORALESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ESTELA DAYANA ARLEY CABRERACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
LAURA PATRICIA ABARCA GRANADOSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ROLANDO ARIAS BEJARANOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MARIA DEL CARMEN CHAVES ARAYACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
DEILY CASCANTE QUIROSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ROBERT ALEJANDRO ATENCIO BLANCOSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
NORA TERESITA QUIROS MONTEROSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
RAFAEL ANGEL MORA AGUILARCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARLEN IVANNIA CUBERO ABARCACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
DINEY VARGAS FIGUEROACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
OSCAR BATISTA SANCHEZ CHACONCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
MARIA DEL CARMEN CHAVES ARAYACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
DANILO FERNANDEZ NAVARROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
JORGE FERNANDEZ SANCHEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAsubstitute
LAUREN QUIROS AGUEROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAsubstitute

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. “PILAS — Syndic and district council — shared ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-D-PUNTARENAS-BUENOS-AIRES-PILAS. Sources: costa-rica--url-ae6cfb21525f974d8912a00e, costa-rica--url-9b0bf8940eb485b811da317e, costa-rica--url-f8a1e09c9e89a7e5e9c55114, costa-rica--Sc1df243471, costa-rica--Sfa58a101ac, costa-rica--Sfa91292290, costa-rica--S9befea0f03, costa-rica--S79669f3e5d, costa-rica--S90454a984c.