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PUERTO CORTÉS — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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Costa Rica · PUERTO CORTÉS / PUNTARENAS · other · Syndic and district council — shared ballotCR-D-PUNTARENAS-OSA-PUERTO-CORTES

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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
PUERTO CORTÉS / PUNTARENAS
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-58e6cc3e4581fe3e16f25389
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

  • LIBERAL PROGRESISTA31.8%
  • ORGANIZACIÓN SOCIAL ACTIVA21.4%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA16.7%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA10.9%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL9.6%
  • AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA5.0%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS4.6%
Results for event-55579517c9bb8597b691d1eb
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERAL PROGRESISTAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241,05531.8%2Recorded
ORGANIZACIÓN SOCIAL ACTIVAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202471021.4%2Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202455216.7%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/202436210.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20243189.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241675%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241514.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL52.7%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO31.7%
  • ALIANZA DEMÓCRATA CRISTIANA6.8%
  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN4.6%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL2.5%
  • INTEGRACIÓN NACIONAL1.8%
Results for event-7b71ab99e2f0233551793528
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201,73952.7%3Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201,04831.7%2Recorded
ALIANZA DEMÓCRATA CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202236.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201534.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020812.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020581.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL34.3%
  • INTEGRACIÓN NACIONAL20.3%
  • RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSE14.8%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA12.8%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA8.3%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO3.5%
  • VIVA PUNTARENAS3.4%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO2.6%
Results for event-58336c841892441997414494
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201699334.3%3Recorded
INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201658820.3%1Recorded
RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSEcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201642814.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201636912.8%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20162398.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161013.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
VIVA PUNTARENAScosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016993.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016752.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

30.390–100 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=10.407239819004527, oldest_gap=14.004149377593365, previous_gap=20.9267110841914

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

79.02percentage 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=[[9.592760180995475,10.920060331825038,0,0,0,16.65158371040724,0,0,0,0,31.82503770739065,0,31.010558069381595],[52.66505148394912,0,0,0,2.4530587522713505,0,0,1.756511205330103,0,31.73834039975772,0,0,11.387038158691702],[34.33609958506224,8.264177040110651,12.759336099585063,3.492392807745505,0,0,0,20.33195020746888,0,2.5933609958506225,0,0,18.22268326417704]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

49.93percentage 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=[[9.592760180995475,10.920060331825038,0,0,0,16.65158371040724,0,0,0,0,31.82503770739065,0,31.010558069381595],[52.66505148394912,0,0,0,2.4530587522713505,0,0,1.756511205330103,0,31.73834039975772,0,0,11.387038158691702],[34.33609958506224,8.264177040110651,12.759336099585063,3.492392807745505,0,0,0,20.33195020746888,0,2.5933609958506225,0,0,18.22268326417704]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

64.47percentage 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=[[9.592760180995475,10.920060331825038,0,0,0,16.65158371040724,0,0,0,0,31.82503770739065,0,31.010558069381595],[52.66505148394912,0,0,0,2.4530587522713505,0,0,1.756511205330103,0,31.73834039975772,0,0,11.387038158691702],[34.33609958506224,8.264177040110651,12.759336099585063,3.492392807745505,0,0,0,20.33195020746888,0,2.5933609958506225,0,0,18.22268326417704]]

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?
JORGE ENRIQUE CERDAS PEREZSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIO2024LIBERAL PROGRESISTAprincipal
SILVIA ELENA HERRERA DINARTESINDICATURAS SUPLENTE2024LIBERAL PROGRESISTAsubstitute
JUAN CARLOS LOPEZ AZOFEIFACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERAL PROGRESISTAprincipal
DEIBY ALFARO MORACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024ORGANIZACIÓN SOCIAL ACTIVAprincipal
ARIANA DINARTE CAMPOSCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024ORGANIZACIÓN SOCIAL ACTIVAprincipal
YENDRY MARCIA MENDEZ CAMPOSCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024NUEVA REPÚBLICAprincipal
FRANCISCO ANTONIO OROZCO MURILLOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024ORGANIZACIÓN SOCIAL ACTIVAsubstitute
MIRTA PATRICIA PEÑA VILLALOBOSCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024ORGANIZACIÓN SOCIAL ACTIVAsubstitute
CARMEN PATRICIA CHAVARRA MARCHENACONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024NUEVA REPÚBLICAsubstitute
JORGE ENRIQUE CERDAS PEREZSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
BETTY MARY LATOUCHE WHITESÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MARVIN ELIZONDO GRANADOSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ANGELA MARTINEZ ZAMBRANACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
BARYAN SOLIS VENEGASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOprincipal
FLOR MARIA CRUZ ALEMANCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOprincipal
GERAL MENDEZ MEZACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MIGDALIA VARGAS MARTINEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
GILBERT DUARTE RUIZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOsubstitute
KAROL MARCIA JARACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOsubstitute
CARLOS MANUEL JUAREZ CHAVARRIASÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
KRISSIA GRACIELA HERRERA AVENDAÑOSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
OLDEMAR FERNANDEZ RAMIREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
LUZ GAMBOA ARIASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
KHATERINE DAYAN VILLACHICA JUAREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ARELIS MAYANI PORRAS GUZMANCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
EDUARDO MORERA ALVARADOCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
NURY SANABRIA LEMAITRECONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
HEKSONT JOSE MARTINEZ GILBERTCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
VICTOR MANUEL SOLIS MARINCONCEJALES 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. “PUERTO CORTÉS — Syndic and district council — shared ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-D-PUNTARENAS-OSA-PUERTO-CORTES. Sources: costa-rica--url-ae6cfb21525f974d8912a00e, costa-rica--url-9b0bf8940eb485b811da317e, costa-rica--url-f8a1e09c9e89a7e5e9c55114, costa-rica--Sc1df243471, costa-rica--S0c991617ac, costa-rica--Sfa91292290, costa-rica--S8b0bbb75a0, costa-rica--S79669f3e5d, costa-rica--S44a18b931d.