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PITTIER — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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Costa Rica · PITTIER / PUNTARENAS · other · Syndic and district council — shared ballotCR-D-PUNTARENAS-COTO-BRUS-PITTIER

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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
PITTIER / PUNTARENAS
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-00360e2dd43f869816140850
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 CRISTIANA44.0%
  • AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA29.7%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL26.3%
Results for event-59b0b484e73964d200009742
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202436044%3Recorded
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202424329.7%1Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202421526.3%1Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA45.6%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL36.4%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA9.2%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL6.5%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS2.4%
Results for event-6767e5c86ecf50ea400e1d31
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202038645.6%3Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202030836.4%2Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020789.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020556.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020202.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA41.6%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL33.0%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA21.3%
  • VIVA PUNTARENAS2.5%
  • MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO1.6%
Results for event-1bb9b749c80c10151edb247b
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201631341.6%3Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201624833%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201616021.3%1Recorded
VIVA PUNTARENAScosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016192.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016121.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

38.960–100 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=14.303178484107576, oldest_gap=8.643617021276597, previous_gap=9.208972845336476

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

27.35percentage 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=[[26.283618581907092,44.00977995110024,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,29.706601466992666],[36.36363636363637,45.57260920897284,0,0,6.4935064935064934,9.208972845336481,0,0,0,0,0,0,2.3612750885478158],[32.97872340425532,21.27659574468085,41.62234042553192,0,0,0,1.5957446808510638,0,0,0,0,0,2.526595744680851]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

43.38percentage 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=[[26.283618581907092,44.00977995110024,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,29.706601466992666],[36.36363636363637,45.57260920897284,0,0,6.4935064935064934,9.208972845336481,0,0,0,0,0,0,2.3612750885478158],[32.97872340425532,21.27659574468085,41.62234042553192,0,0,0,1.5957446808510638,0,0,0,0,0,2.526595744680851]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

35.36percentage 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=[[26.283618581907092,44.00977995110024,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,29.706601466992666],[36.36363636363637,45.57260920897284,0,0,6.4935064935064934,9.208972845336481,0,0,0,0,0,0,2.3612750885478158],[32.97872340425532,21.27659574468085,41.62234042553192,0,0,0,1.5957446808510638,0,0,0,0,0,2.526595744680851]]

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?
ANTONIO VILLEGAS SANDISINDICATURAS PROPIETARIO2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
SEIDY PICADO SANCHEZSINDICATURAS SUPLENTE2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
JORGE VILLALOBOS PADILLACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
HAZEL DANIELA MORA CASCANTECONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
GABRIELA ANDREA GARITA CESPEDESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAprincipal
YAMILETH ALVARADO JIMENEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
JUVENAL RODRIGUEZ CHACONCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
HEIDY MONGE MORALESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
JOSEFINA BADILLA CRUZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAsubstitute
ADRIANA CASTILLO RODRIGUEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
JORGE GARITA HERNANDEZSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
ELIDIETH ARAYA CHAVESSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
MARLENE ALVARADO JIMENEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
FREDDY RUBI FERNANDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
VICTOR GERARDO RODRIGUEZ BERROCALCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ANDREA MARIA DELGADO ARAYACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
YAMILETH ALVARADO JIMENEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
GREDY ALEXANDER PICADO QUIROSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
FABIANNA CAROLINA MARIN CARRERACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ADRIAN JOSUE GOMEZ GUZMANCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
JORGE GARITA HERNANDEZSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
RAFAELA CASCANTE CAMACHOSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAsubstitute
LIDIETTE TORRES FERNANDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
GERARDO ARAYA JIMENEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
YAMILETH ALVARADO JIMENEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
JOSE VICTORINO PICADO CHACONCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
DENIA LUCIA BERMUDEZ ESPINOZACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAsubstitute
GILBERTH VILLEGAS SANDICONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAsubstitute
ENRIQUE MORALES ARIASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
VICTOR MANUEL CHAVES SALASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute

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. “PITTIER — Syndic and district council — shared ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-D-PUNTARENAS-COTO-BRUS-PITTIER. Sources: costa-rica--url-ae6cfb21525f974d8912a00e, costa-rica--url-9b0bf8940eb485b811da317e, costa-rica--url-f8a1e09c9e89a7e5e9c55114, costa-rica--Sc1df243471, costa-rica--S998e4f85c4, costa-rica--Sfa91292290, costa-rica--Sc6fad85dcd, costa-rica--S79669f3e5d, costa-rica--S1b318e8d75.