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LA CUESTA — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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

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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
LA CUESTA / PUNTARENAS
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-c15b58e22261491fe622a363
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 REPÚBLICA35.9%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL24.2%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS20.4%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA9.8%
  • AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA7.6%
  • LIBERAL PROGRESISTA2.2%
Results for event-1614f36937bc6ed9de72c77c
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202435635.9%3Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202424024.2%1Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202420320.4%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024979.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024757.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
LIBERAL PROGRESISTAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024222.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL59.7%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA11.6%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA9.9%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS6.3%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL4.8%
  • RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSE4.2%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO2.9%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA0.6%
Results for event-8fe2e01ce439cab4d0568332
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202066859.7%5Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202013011.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201119.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020706.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020544.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSEcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020474.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020322.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202070.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL33.8%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA32.0%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO13.5%
  • RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSE12.1%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA6.6%
  • MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO2.0%
Results for event-2e491d6a1fc51273c96f2e7d
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201630233.8%3Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201628632%1Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201612113.5%1Recorded
RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSEcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201610812.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016596.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016182%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=11.681772406847937, oldest_gap=1.78970917225951, previous_gap=48.07864164432529

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

45.69percentage 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=[[24.169184290030213,9.768378650553878,0,0,0,35.85095669687815,0,0,0,0,2.215508559919436,0,27.995971802618328],[59.69615728328865,11.61751563896336,0.6255585344057194,2.8596961572832886,4.825737265415549,9.919571045576408,0,0,0,0,0,0,10.455764075067025],[33.78076062639821,31.991051454138702,6.599552572706935,13.534675615212528,0,0,2.0134228187919465,0,0,0,0,0,12.080536912751677]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

40.66percentage 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=[[24.169184290030213,9.768378650553878,0,0,0,35.85095669687815,0,0,0,0,2.215508559919436,0,27.995971802618328],[59.69615728328865,11.61751563896336,0.6255585344057194,2.8596961572832886,4.825737265415549,9.919571045576408,0,0,0,0,0,0,10.455764075067025],[33.78076062639821,31.991051454138702,6.599552572706935,13.534675615212528,0,0,2.0134228187919465,0,0,0,0,0,12.080536912751677]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

43.17percentage 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=[[24.169184290030213,9.768378650553878,0,0,0,35.85095669687815,0,0,0,0,2.215508559919436,0,27.995971802618328],[59.69615728328865,11.61751563896336,0.6255585344057194,2.8596961572832886,4.825737265415549,9.919571045576408,0,0,0,0,0,0,10.455764075067025],[33.78076062639821,31.991051454138702,6.599552572706935,13.534675615212528,0,0,2.0134228187919465,0,0,0,0,0,12.080536912751677]]

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?
DINORAH MENA CAMACHOSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIA2024NUEVA REPÚBLICAprincipal
WILLIAM BRIONES SEQUEIRASINDICATURAS SUPLENTE2024NUEVA REPÚBLICAsubstitute
KATHERINE GOMEZ LOPEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024NUEVA REPÚBLICAprincipal
JORDIN ESTIBEN ORTIZ GUSTAVINOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024NUEVA REPÚBLICAprincipal
BIELKA MARIA PALACIOS SALINASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
NURIA ZAPATA CASTROCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDOS PODEMOSprincipal
ANA DORIS PEREZ CALDERONCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024NUEVA REPÚBLICAsubstitute
ARGENIS MENDEZ VILLALOBOSCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024NUEVA REPÚBLICAsubstitute
KESLY TAMARA PEREZ FALLASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
STEFANY MELANIA MEDINA MORALESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDOS PODEMOSsubstitute
JORGE MORGAN MORENOSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ANDREA FABIOLA GARCIA CARRANZASÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
RICARDO AZOFEIFA MORACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARLENE SALAZAR ARIASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
SHIRANI DE LA SERA SANTAMARIACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
KAROLAY BEJARANO CESPEDESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARTHA CASCANTE AVALOSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
OLIVIER GERARDO BOGANTES HERNANDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ARCHILYN GABRIELA CRUZ DUARTECONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
EDGARDO STARLEN JIMENEZ BEJARANOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
JORGE MORGAN MORENOSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ANDREA FABIOLA GARCIA CARRANZASÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
EDGAR GUTIERREZ CUEVASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARIA PRADO MORACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
GERARDINA BARQUERO GODOYCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
KEVIN HUMBERTO SOTO QUINTEROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016FRENTE AMPLIOprincipal
WILLIAM BADILLA QUIROSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MARLENE RAMIREZ RAMIREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
JORGE PEREZ AYMERICHCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
MARILYN LEIVA JIMENEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016FRENTE AMPLIOsubstitute

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. “LA CUESTA — Syndic and district council — shared ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-D-PUNTARENAS-CORREDORES-LA-CUESTA. 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.