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GUACIMAL — Syndic and district council — shared ballot
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GUACIMAL — 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: 78.3/100. 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 55.3 points; earlier interval 56.7 points; two-interval mean 56.0 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
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL9330.59%2
LIBERAL PROGRESISTA8427.63%1
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA5618.42%1
NUEVA REPÚBLICA5016.45%1
AGENDA DEMOCRÁTICA NACIONAL113.62%0
AQUÍ COSTA RICA MANDA103.29%0

Result source · PDF page 549; district 7 · 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
TEODORO ARTURO VILLALOBOS MORALESSINDICATURAS PROPIETARIOLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
NOELIA ANCHIA VILLALOBOSSINDICATURAS SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
LADY MARIANA OLIVERIO SUAREZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
DAVID ROBERTO VILLALOBOS VILLALOBOSCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASLIBERAL PROGRESISTANoDeclaration
MARIA CECILIA SOLIS CRUZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
ALBIN CRUZ ARGUEDASCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIASNUEVA REPÚBLICANoDeclaration
ILEANA MARIA LORIA MURILLOCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
HARVIN SUAREZ UGALDECONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERAL PROGRESISTAYesDeclaration
JONATHAN ISIDRO VARELA RAMIREZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
LAURA LORENA FONSECA DIAZCONCEJALÍAS DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESNUEVA REPÚBLICAYesDeclaration
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
INTEGRACIÓN NACIONAL9634.91%3
LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL7728.00%1
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO5620.36%1
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA3613.09%0
UNIÓN DE PUNTARENENSES EMPRENDEDORES72.55%0
NUEVA GENERACIÓN31.09%0

Result source · Sheet 4.74; district 7 · 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
JULIA MADRIGAL ZAMORASÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIAINTEGRACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
CARLOS JOSE BADILLA MENDEZSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTEINTEGRACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
JOSE ALFREDO UGALDE LORIACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
ERICKA MARIA FALLAS MEJIASCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MARTA IRIS UGALDE MENDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
CLARA DE LOS ANGELES MATA ORTIZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANONoDeclaration
JORGE ENRIQUE VILLALOBOS SUAREZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESINTEGRACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
EVELYN SANCHEZ LORIACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESINTEGRACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
ROGER ALBERTO MORALES GONZALEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
ADRIAN URIBE LORIACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESREPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOYesDeclaration
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 NACIONAL11736.45%3
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA10131.46%1
ACCIÓN CIUDADANA9228.66%1
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO72.18%0
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO41.25%0

Result source · Sheet 4.73; district 7 · 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 ANDRES RAMIREZ MORALESSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIOLIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
MARTA IRIS UGALDE MENDEZSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTELIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
OLGA CRISTINA MENDEZ MADRIGALCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
TEODORO ARTURO VILLALOBOS MORALESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)LIBERACIÓN NACIONALNoDeclaration
JOSE LEONARDO SUAREZ MORACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANANoDeclaration
RUTH KATHERINE MENDEZ VARELACONCEJALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)ACCIÓN CIUDADANANoDeclaration
MAUREEN PATRICIA MURILLO VILLALOBOSCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
HERNAN GERARDO SIBAJA ESQUIVELCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESLIBERACIÓN NACIONALYesDeclaration
JOYCELIN DE LOS ANGELES CRUZ MORALESCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESUNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAYesDeclaration
DIONISIO GONZALEZ MENDEZCONCEJALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTESACCIÓN CIUDADANAYesDeclaration

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