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TÁRCOLES — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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Costa Rica · TÁRCOLES / PUNTARENAS · other · Syndic and district council — shared ballotCR-D-PUNTARENAS-GARABITO-TARCOLES

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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
TÁRCOLES / PUNTARENAS
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-add97bf1a108457df8cdef39
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

  • PUEBLO GARABITO33.4%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL25.9%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA24.7%
  • LIBERAL PROGRESISTA8.2%
  • PUEBLO SOBERANO7.8%
Results for event-cd6253bdfdfd4b8e2862eb64
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PUEBLO GARABITOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202444733.4%2Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202434625.9%3Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202433024.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
LIBERAL PROGRESISTAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241108.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PUEBLO SOBERANOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241057.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PUEBLO GARABITO36.2%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL29.0%
  • INTEGRACIÓN NACIONAL14.6%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA12.3%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL7.8%
Results for event-2dd8234c1b9c4adfd0ccf93d
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PUEBLO GARABITOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202071536.2%2Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202057429%3Recorded
INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202028914.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202024412.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201557.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL31.6%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA26.4%
  • GARABITO ECOLÓGICO14.3%
  • PUEBLO GARABITO9.5%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA9.0%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO6.4%
  • MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO1.8%
  • RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSE1.1%
Results for event-1c39a118b6ca07019b390278
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201654131.6%3Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201645326.4%1Recorded
GARABITO ECOLÓGICOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201624514.3%1Recorded
PUEBLO GARABITOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161629.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161549%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161096.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016311.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSEcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016181.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

64.090–100 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=7.548579970104633, oldest_gap=5.137186223000583, previous_gap=7.132018209408191

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

25.63percentage 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=[[25.85949177877429,24.663677130044842,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,8.221225710014947,0,41.25560538116592],[29.033889731917046,12.341932220536165,0,0,7.8401618614061706,0,0,14.618108244815376,0,0,0,0,36.16590794132524],[31.5820198482195,26.444833625218916,8.990075890251022,0,0,0,1.8096906012842966,0,0,6.363105662580269,0,0,24.810274372446003]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

33.81percentage 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=[[25.85949177877429,24.663677130044842,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,8.221225710014947,0,41.25560538116592],[29.033889731917046,12.341932220536165,0,0,7.8401618614061706,0,0,14.618108244815376,0,0,0,0,36.16590794132524],[31.5820198482195,26.444833625218916,8.990075890251022,0,0,0,1.8096906012842966,0,0,6.363105662580269,0,0,24.810274372446003]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

29.72percentage 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=[[25.85949177877429,24.663677130044842,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,8.221225710014947,0,41.25560538116592],[29.033889731917046,12.341932220536165,0,0,7.8401618614061706,0,0,14.618108244815376,0,0,0,0,36.16590794132524],[31.5820198482195,26.444833625218916,8.990075890251022,0,0,0,1.8096906012842966,0,0,6.363105662580269,0,0,24.810274372446003]]

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?
LUIS DIEGO GONZALEZ IRIASSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIO2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
KEYLA TATIANA MURILLO ALPIZARSINDICATURAS SUPLENTE2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
JENNIFER ALVARADO FERNANDEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024PUEBLO GARABITOprincipal
ROY STEVEN ARROYO PICADOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024PUEBLO GARABITOprincipal
ERIKA PATRICIA CASTRO GUTIERREZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ANDREY ALVARADO ROJASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARIA CRISTINA ROJAS RUBICONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024PUEBLO GARABITOsubstitute
JONATHAN GUILLERMO MURILLO MORACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024PUEBLO GARABITOsubstitute
IRAN GRACIELA ADANIS CHAVESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MARCO TULIO RUIZ AGUEROCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
JESUS ALBERTO SOLORZANO VARGASSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
LETVIA AVILA PEREZSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
YAJAIRA SANDI QUIROSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020PUEBLO GARABITOprincipal
FABIO ALONSO CHACON GUZMANCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020PUEBLO GARABITOprincipal
JUANITA VILLALTA ROJASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
VICTOR MANUEL ROJAS RAMIREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
WARNER MAURICIO VILLALOBOS OREAMUNOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020PUEBLO GARABITOsubstitute
KAROL IVONNE ADANIS JIMENEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020PUEBLO GARABITOsubstitute
JOSE DAGOBERTO GUZMAN QUESADACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
EMILIA MARIA SIBAJA ARROYOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
KATTIA DESANTI CASTELLONSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIA2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MANRIQUE HERNANDEZ CORDEROSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ERIKA TATIANA CORDOBA VARGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
OSCAR ANTONIO AGUERO RIOSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
GUSTAVO ADOLFO PEREZ VASQUEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
CHRISTIAN RAFAEL ESPINOZA GARCIACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016GARABITO ECOLÓGICOprincipal
ROY EDUARDO ARROYO MURILLOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ADRIANA PATRICIA ALVAREZ CORRALESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
OMAR PEREZ VALVERDECONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
YAJAIRA AVENDAÑO MORACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016GARABITO ECOLÓGICOsubstitute

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. “TÁRCOLES — Syndic and district council — shared ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-D-PUNTARENAS-GARABITO-TARCOLES. Sources: costa-rica--url-ae6cfb21525f974d8912a00e, costa-rica--url-9b0bf8940eb485b811da317e, costa-rica--url-f8a1e09c9e89a7e5e9c55114, costa-rica--Sc1df243471, costa-rica--S2b13170450, costa-rica--Sfa91292290, costa-rica--S71b83560bd, costa-rica--S79669f3e5d, costa-rica--S1aa7f7feeb.