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SAN VITO — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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

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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
SAN VITO / PUNTARENAS
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-b2e68124a7586fac729f24f3
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 CRISTIANA56.3%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL36.3%
  • AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA7.4%
Results for event-a03329d2b5d5c50bd0dfddf2
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20242,41656.3%3Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241,55636.3%2Recorded
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20243187.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL44.3%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA35.2%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA10.8%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL6.2%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS3.5%
Results for event-39f2d74073630a387ef35e43
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201,95844.3%3Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201,55835.2%2Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202047710.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202756.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201543.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA54.3%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL22.0%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA14.6%
  • MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO6.2%
  • VIVA PUNTARENAS2.9%
Results for event-e77d552355b0709bd80ec900
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S1b318e8d75/20161,95154.3%3Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S1b318e8d75/201679222%1Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S1b318e8d75/201652614.6%1Recorded
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIOcosta-rica/S1b318e8d75/20162216.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
VIVA PUNTARENAScosta-rica/S1b318e8d75/20161032.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

10.160–100 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=20.04662004662005, oldest_gap=32.25716671305315, previous_gap=9.04568068747173

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

25.01percentage 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=[[36.27039627039627,56.31701631701632,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,7.4125874125874125],[44.27860696517413,35.2329262777024,0,0,6.218905472636816,10.786974219810041,0,0,0,0,0,0,3.482587064676617],[22.042861118842193,54.30002783189535,14.639576955190648,0,0,0,6.150848872808238,0,0,0,0,0,2.866685221263568]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

39.86percentage 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=[[36.27039627039627,56.31701631701632,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,7.4125874125874125],[44.27860696517413,35.2329262777024,0,0,6.218905472636816,10.786974219810041,0,0,0,0,0,0,3.482587064676617],[22.042861118842193,54.30002783189535,14.639576955190648,0,0,0,6.150848872808238,0,0,0,0,0,2.866685221263568]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

32.44percentage 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=[[36.27039627039627,56.31701631701632,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,7.4125874125874125],[44.27860696517413,35.2329262777024,0,0,6.218905472636816,10.786974219810041,0,0,0,0,0,0,3.482587064676617],[22.042861118842193,54.30002783189535,14.639576955190648,0,0,0,6.150848872808238,0,0,0,0,0,2.866685221263568]]

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?
GILBERTO VILLALOBOS PEREZSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIO2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
ANABELLE CARRILLO PIZARROSINDICATURAS SUPLENTE2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
URIBE BARRANTES GONZALEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
MAUREN VANESSA GRANADOS BERMUDEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
DIEGO ALBERTO SALAZAR MARINCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ENDRINA YULISA VILLALOBOS ANGULOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
RAUL SANDI MORACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
YESENIA MARIA VEGA CAMPOSCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
WALTER PEREZ MOLINACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
NORMA CAMACHO PEREZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
JUANCEL BRAYAN VILLALOBOS JIMENEZSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARCELA MARIA FERNANDEZ ARAYASÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
CARINA JIMENEZ LOPEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
JORGE LUIS UREÑA SOLISCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
RAUL SANDI MORACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
ANABELLE CARRILLO PIZARROCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
JOSE ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ BERMUDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
YENDRY VARGAS TREJOSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ANDRES MARTIN MADRIGAL UGALDECONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
SANDRA DELGADO FONSECACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
JOSE GREINER NAVARRO UMAÑASÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
MARIA EUGENIA JIMENEZ CHACONSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
JACQUELINE CARRILLO QUIROSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
RAUL SANDI MORACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
JORGE ULISES MUÑOZ SIBAJACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
JOSE RAMON VARGAS LOPEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
ROMARIO ANTONIO NAVARRO BARRANTESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
ANA RUTH NAVARRO UMAÑACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
ERIKA MARIA ARIAS CARRANZACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
CLAUDIO ARNOLDO PORRAS JIMENEZCONCEJALES 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. “SAN VITO — Syndic and district council — shared ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-D-PUNTARENAS-COTO-BRUS-SAN-VITO. Sources: costa-rica--url-ae6cfb21525f974d8912a00e, costa-rica--url-9b0bf8940eb485b811da317e, costa-rica--url-fe0bd64a8f26443642e095eb, costa-rica--Sc1df243471, costa-rica--S998e4f85c4, costa-rica--Sfa91292290, costa-rica--Sc6fad85dcd, costa-rica--S1b318e8d75.