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GUACIMAL — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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Costa Rica · GUACIMAL / PUNTARENAS · other · Syndic and district council — shared ballotCR-D-PUNTARENAS-PUNTARENAS-GUACIMAL

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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
GUACIMAL / PUNTARENAS
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-71c749c18500d89ef10fd5c3
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

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL30.6%
  • LIBERAL PROGRESISTA27.6%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA18.4%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA16.4%
  • AGENDA DEMOCRÁTICA NACIONAL3.6%
  • AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA3.3%
Results for event-2e3f25aa0f25ef8bcb700eb5
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20249330.6%2Recorded
LIBERAL PROGRESISTAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20248427.6%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20245618.4%1Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20245016.4%1Recorded
AGENDA DEMOCRÁTICA NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024113.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024103.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • INTEGRACIÓN NACIONAL34.9%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL28.0%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO20.4%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA13.1%
  • UNIÓN DE PUNTARENENSES EMPRENDEDORES2.5%
  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN1.1%
Results for event-b776fd9e8179cb11b07fe5e6
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20209634.9%3Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20207728%1Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20205620.4%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20203613.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIÓN DE PUNTARENENSES EMPRENDEDOREScosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202072.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/202031.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL36.4%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA31.5%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA28.7%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO2.2%
  • MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO1.2%
Results for event-fd0b89011529af9f1ea7c3b9
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201611736.4%3Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201610131.5%1Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20169228.7%1Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201672.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201641.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

78.260–100 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=2.9605263157894726, oldest_gap=4.984423676012458, previous_gap=6.9090909090909065

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

55.27percentage 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=[[30.592105263157894,18.42105263157895,0,0,0,16.44736842105263,0,0,0,0,27.63157894736842,0,6.907894736842104],[28,13.090909090909092,0,0,0,0,0,34.90909090909091,0,20.363636363636363,0,0,3.6363636363636362],[36.44859813084112,31.46417445482866,28.660436137071652,0,0,0,1.2461059190031152,0,0,2.1806853582554515,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

56.73percentage 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=[[30.592105263157894,18.42105263157895,0,0,0,16.44736842105263,0,0,0,0,27.63157894736842,0,6.907894736842104],[28,13.090909090909092,0,0,0,0,0,34.90909090909091,0,20.363636363636363,0,0,3.6363636363636362],[36.44859813084112,31.46417445482866,28.660436137071652,0,0,0,1.2461059190031152,0,0,2.1806853582554515,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

56percentage 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=[[30.592105263157894,18.42105263157895,0,0,0,16.44736842105263,0,0,0,0,27.63157894736842,0,6.907894736842104],[28,13.090909090909092,0,0,0,0,0,34.90909090909091,0,20.363636363636363,0,0,3.6363636363636362],[36.44859813084112,31.46417445482866,28.660436137071652,0,0,0,1.2461059190031152,0,0,2.1806853582554515,0,0,0]]

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?
TEODORO ARTURO VILLALOBOS MORALESSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIO2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
NOELIA ANCHIA VILLALOBOSSINDICATURAS SUPLENTE2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
LADY MARIANA OLIVERIO SUAREZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
DAVID ROBERTO VILLALOBOS VILLALOBOSCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERAL PROGRESISTAprincipal
MARIA CECILIA SOLIS CRUZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
ALBIN CRUZ ARGUEDASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024NUEVA REPÚBLICAprincipal
ILEANA MARIA LORIA MURILLOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
HARVIN SUAREZ UGALDECONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERAL PROGRESISTAsubstitute
JONATHAN ISIDRO VARELA RAMIREZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
LAURA LORENA FONSECA DIAZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024NUEVA REPÚBLICAsubstitute
JULIA MADRIGAL ZAMORASÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIA2020INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
CARLOS JOSE BADILLA MENDEZSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2020INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
JOSE ALFREDO UGALDE LORIACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ERICKA MARIA FALLAS MEJIASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARTA IRIS UGALDE MENDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
CLARA DE LOS ANGELES MATA ORTIZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOprincipal
JORGE ENRIQUE VILLALOBOS SUAREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
EVELYN SANCHEZ LORIACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ROGER ALBERTO MORALES GONZALEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ADRIAN URIBE LORIACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOsubstitute
LUIS ANDRES RAMIREZ MORALESSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIO2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
MARTA IRIS UGALDE MENDEZSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
OLGA CRISTINA MENDEZ MADRIGALCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
TEODORO ARTURO VILLALOBOS MORALESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
JOSE LEONARDO SUAREZ MORACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
RUTH KATHERINE MENDEZ VARELACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016ACCIÓN CIUDADANAprincipal
MAUREEN PATRICIA MURILLO VILLALOBOSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
HERNAN GERARDO SIBAJA ESQUIVELCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
JOYCELIN DE LOS ANGELES CRUZ MORALESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
DIONISIO GONZALEZ MENDEZCONCEJALES 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. “GUACIMAL — Syndic and district council — shared ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-D-PUNTARENAS-PUNTARENAS-GUACIMAL. Sources: costa-rica--url-ae6cfb21525f974d8912a00e, costa-rica--url-9b0bf8940eb485b811da317e, costa-rica--url-f8a1e09c9e89a7e5e9c55114, costa-rica--Sc1df243471, costa-rica--Sc527ac990c, costa-rica--Sfa91292290, costa-rica--Sfee52062a5, costa-rica--S79669f3e5d, costa-rica--S58d798e1e7.