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TÁRCOLES — Syndic and district council — shared ballot
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TÁRCOLES — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

All 1,973 imported 2016/2020/2024 returns now reconcile seats against 18,155 named elected people, including vice-officers and substitutes. The missing Cartagena 2020 result and eight spelling joins are recovered. Final proclamations replace 17 initial seat allocations. Fifty-two party-acronym joins are explicitly inferred and documented. New-canton predecessors stay separate; replacements, the 2028 call and current incumbents remain to be verified.

Election expectation2028-02-06
Imported event records3
Usable vote comparison cycles3 of 3
Seat comparison cycles3 of 3

Historical competition

Competitiveness index for a verified actual-event sequence withheld. Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete.

Provisional imported-series CI: 64.1/100. This uses the three displayed comparison cycles and retains the open event/boundary audit. It does not confirm the latest three actual completed elections.

Grouped party-share volatility: latest interval 25.6 points; earlier interval 33.8 points; two-interval mean 29.7 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

Current government and control: Unverified. Local government-risk forecast: unassessed.

Polling: no vetted current evidence included for this office.

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.

Registry and evidence links: Source 1, Source 2, Source 3

Electoral event evidence

Separate source records can belong to the same election cycle. Recounts, runoffs and void returns do not create additional cycles.

2024-02-04 · ordinary

Coverage: Official final vote book and independently reconciled certified titular roster

Basis: One party/list ballot; syndic and district councillors share the district ballot; seats exclude substitutes; includes one syndic plus four district councillors

Source note: Seats counted from named titular members, excluding substitutes and vice-executives.

Party or listCandidateVotes or marksVote shareSeats
PUEBLO GARABITO44733.41%2
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL34625.86%3
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA33024.66%0
LIBERAL PROGRESISTA1108.22%0
PUEBLO SOBERANO1057.85%0

Result source · PDF page 566; district 2 · Seat source

Named elected members and substitutes

Vice-officers and substitutes are listed where declared. They are not added to titular seat totals. Inferred party-code joins are labelled.

NameOfficeParty or listSubstituteEvidence
LUIS DIEGO GONZALEZ IRIASSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIOLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
KEYLA TATIANA MURILLO ALPIZARSINDICATURAS SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
JENNIFER ALVARADO FERNANDEZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASPUEBLO GARABITONoDeclaration
ROY STEVEN ARROYO PICADOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASPUEBLO GARABITONoDeclaration
ERIKA PATRICIA CASTRO GUTIERREZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ANDREY ALVARADO ROJASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MARIA CRISTINA ROJAS RUBICONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESPUEBLO GARABITOYesDeclaration
JONATHAN GUILLERMO MURILLO MORACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESPUEBLO GARABITOYesDeclaration
IRAN GRACIELA ADANIS CHAVESCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
MARCO TULIO RUIZ AGUEROCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
2020-02-02 · ordinary

Coverage: Official final vote book and independently reconciled certified titular roster

Basis: One party/list ballot; syndic and district councillors share the district ballot; seats exclude substitutes; includes one syndic plus four district councillors

Source note: Seats counted from named titular members, excluding substitutes and vice-executives.

Party or listCandidateVotes or marksVote shareSeats
PUEBLO GARABITO71536.17%2
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL57429.03%3
INTEGRACIÓN NACIONAL28914.62%0
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA24412.34%0
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL1557.84%0

Result source · Sheet 4.84; district 2 · Seat source

Named elected members and substitutes

Vice-officers and substitutes are listed where declared. They are not added to titular seat totals. Inferred party-code joins are labelled.

NameOfficeParty or listSubstituteEvidence
JESUS ALBERTO SOLORZANO VARGASSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
LETVIA AVILA PEREZSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
YAJAIRA SANDI QUIROSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)PUEBLO GARABITONoDeclaration; inferred party-code join
FABIO ALONSO CHACON GUZMANCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)PUEBLO GARABITONoDeclaration; inferred party-code join
JUANITA VILLALTA ROJASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
VICTOR MANUEL ROJAS RAMIREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
WARNER MAURICIO VILLALOBOS OREAMUNOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESPUEBLO GARABITOYesDeclaration; inferred party-code join
KAROL IVONNE ADANIS JIMENEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESPUEBLO GARABITOYesDeclaration; inferred party-code join
JOSE DAGOBERTO GUZMAN QUESADACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
EMILIA MARIA SIBAJA ARROYOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
2016-02-07 · ordinary

Coverage: Official final vote book and independently reconciled certified titular roster

Basis: One party/list ballot; syndic and district councillors share the district ballot; seats exclude substitutes; includes one syndic plus four district councillors

Source note: Seats counted from named titular members, excluding substitutes and vice-executives.

Party or listCandidateVotes or marksVote shareSeats
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL54131.58%3
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA45326.44%1
GARABITO ECOLÓGICO24514.30%1
PUEBLO GARABITO1629.46%0
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA1548.99%0
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO1096.36%0
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO311.81%0
RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSE181.05%0

Result source · Sheet 4.83; district 2 · Seat source

Named elected members and substitutes

Vice-officers and substitutes are listed where declared. They are not added to titular seat totals. Inferred party-code joins are labelled.

NameOfficeParty or listSubstituteEvidence
KATTIA DESANTI CASTELLONSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIALIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MANRIQUE HERNANDEZ CORDEROSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
ERIKA TATIANA CORDOBA VARGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
OSCAR ANTONIO AGUERO RIOSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
GUSTAVO ADOLFO PEREZ VASQUEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
CHRISTIAN RAFAEL ESPINOZA GARCIACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)GARABITO ECOLÓGICONoDeclaration; inferred party-code join
ROY EDUARDO ARROYO MURILLOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
ADRIANA PATRICIA ALVAREZ CORRALESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
OMAR PEREZ VALVERDECONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
YAJAIRA AVENDAÑO MORACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESGARABITO ECOLÓGICOYesDeclaration; inferred party-code join

Snapshot 13 September 2026. Fixed election window 8 September 2026 to 8 March 2028. Record CR-D-PUNTARENAS-GARABITO-TARCOLES.