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CANOAS — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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Costa Rica · CANOAS / PUNTARENAS · other · Syndic and district council — shared ballotCR-D-PUNTARENAS-CORREDORES-CANOAS

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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
CANOAS / PUNTARENAS
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-252be827f51a7f28c31f50c9
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

  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA32.9%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL28.9%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA16.6%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS8.1%
  • LIBERAL PROGRESISTA7.4%
  • AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA6.1%
Results for event-bd81efe367486af26d8952cb
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202490932.9%3Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202479828.9%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202445816.6%1Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20242238.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
LIBERAL PROGRESISTAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20242047.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241676.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL63.0%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA12.1%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL6.8%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA6.1%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS5.3%
  • RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSE4.4%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO1.4%
  • INTEGRACIÓN NACIONAL1.0%
Results for event-f48b63fa2d6d4891a2fdacca
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201,91363%5Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202036712.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202066.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201846.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201615.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSEcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201344.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020411.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020291%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL39.1%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA31.1%
  • RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSE18.8%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO4.2%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA3.9%
  • MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO2.9%
Results for event-4503ad3077f4209b07082fc9
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201690939.1%3Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201672231.1%1Recorded
RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSEcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201643618.8%1Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016984.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016903.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016682.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

7.50–100 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=4.0231968104385665, oldest_gap=8.04993542832544, previous_gap=50.93904448105437

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

43.2percentage 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=[[28.923523015585356,16.60021747009786,0,0,0,32.94671982602392,0,0,0,0,7.3939833272924975,0,14.135556361000361],[63.031301482701814,6.062602965403625,0,1.3509060955518946,6.787479406919275,12.092257001647447,0,0.9555189456342669,0,0,0,0,9.71993410214168],[39.130434782608695,31.080499354283255,3.8743004735256132,4.218682737839002,0,0,2.9272492466637967,0,0,0,0,0,18.76883340507964]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

43.74percentage 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=[[28.923523015585356,16.60021747009786,0,0,0,32.94671982602392,0,0,0,0,7.3939833272924975,0,14.135556361000361],[63.031301482701814,6.062602965403625,0,1.3509060955518946,6.787479406919275,12.092257001647447,0,0.9555189456342669,0,0,0,0,9.71993410214168],[39.130434782608695,31.080499354283255,3.8743004735256132,4.218682737839002,0,0,2.9272492466637967,0,0,0,0,0,18.76883340507964]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

43.47percentage 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=[[28.923523015585356,16.60021747009786,0,0,0,32.94671982602392,0,0,0,0,7.3939833272924975,0,14.135556361000361],[63.031301482701814,6.062602965403625,0,1.3509060955518946,6.787479406919275,12.092257001647447,0,0.9555189456342669,0,0,0,0,9.71993410214168],[39.130434782608695,31.080499354283255,3.8743004735256132,4.218682737839002,0,0,2.9272492466637967,0,0,0,0,0,18.76883340507964]]

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?
URIEL JOSUE TREJOS HERRERASINDICATURAS PROPIETARIO2024NUEVA REPÚBLICAprincipal
LIZETH ANDREA CRUZ ORTIZSINDICATURAS SUPLENTE2024NUEVA REPÚBLICAsubstitute
KATTIA VANESSA VEGA SANCHOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024NUEVA REPÚBLICAprincipal
EDWIN OLAYA MONTESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024NUEVA REPÚBLICAprincipal
LETICIA CUBILLA ESPINOZACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
RUTH CONCEPCIÓN QUIELCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
VIERCA ORDOÑEZ GONZALEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024NUEVA REPÚBLICAsubstitute
YENIER ALBERTO QUINTERO RIOSCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024NUEVA REPÚBLICAsubstitute
MARIA ANITA MESEN BADILLACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ANA ISABEL MORERA APUCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
JOSE ABEL GOMEZ GOMEZSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MIGDALIA CABALLERO JIMENEZSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
VICTOR GALLARDO GONZALEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
NURIA ROSALES SEQUEIRACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ALEXANDER VENEGAS CENTENOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
LUISANA GONZALEZ SANCHEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
DAMARIS DELGADO GONZALEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
CLEMENTE CABALLERO VIJILCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MARIA CRISTINA BARBERENA SALASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MAIKOR EDUARDO LOZADA TORRESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
JOSE ABEL GOMEZ GOMEZSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
OLGA FELICIA RAMIREZ CASTROSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
VICTOR GALLARDO GONZALEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
NURIA ROSALES SEQUEIRACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
PABLO JOSE VALLE VARGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
MARIA LUPE VARGAS GUEVARACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSEprincipal
ELIZABETH CONCEPCION RODRIGUEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
WILLIAM CASTILLO SERRANOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
BENITO CHAVARRIA NAVARROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
JAIME CRUZ ZUÑIGACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSEsubstitute

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. “CANOAS — Syndic and district council — shared ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-D-PUNTARENAS-CORREDORES-CANOAS. Sources: costa-rica--url-ae6cfb21525f974d8912a00e, costa-rica--url-9b0bf8940eb485b811da317e, costa-rica--url-f8a1e09c9e89a7e5e9c55114, costa-rica--Sc1df243471, costa-rica--Sf5f251e42d, costa-rica--Sfa91292290, costa-rica--S3d4062c068, costa-rica--S79669f3e5d, costa-rica--S0ad40f7ff5.