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LEPANTO — Syndic and district council — shared ballot

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

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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
LEPANTO / PUNTARENAS
Next election
2028-02-06
Linked upcoming event
next-446b16a6a5041d96cc5a2d80
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

  • UNIDOS PODEMOS31.8%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA28.8%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL27.0%
  • LIBERAL PROGRESISTA8.4%
  • PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICO1.5%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA1.4%
  • PUEBLO SOBERANO0.6%
  • UNIÓN DE PUNTARENENSES EMPRENDEDORES0.5%
Results for event-f34f6bc29590e829372bb7a0
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDOS PODEMOScosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241,41131.8%3Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241,27828.8%1Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20241,19727%1Recorded
LIBERAL PROGRESISTAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/20243718.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PROGRESO SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024651.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024631.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PUEBLO SOBERANOcosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024250.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIÓN DE PUNTARENENSES EMPRENDEDOREScosta-rica/Sc1df243471/2024230.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2020-02-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • INTEGRACIÓN NACIONAL51.7%
  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL26.6%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA5.0%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO4.8%
  • NUEVA REPÚBLICA4.2%
  • UNIÓN DE PUNTARENENSES EMPRENDEDORES3.2%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA2.9%
  • RESTAURACIÓN NACIONAL0.8%
  • NUEVA GENERACIÓN0.8%
Results for event-9634e152ab5517f0539929bb
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202,32851.7%4Recorded
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201,19626.6%1Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202235%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20202184.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA REPÚBLICAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201884.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIÓN DE PUNTARENENSES EMPRENDEDOREScosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201453.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/20201322.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
RESTAURACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020370.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
NUEVA GENERACIÓNcosta-rica/Sfa91292290/2020340.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-02-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL34.9%
  • UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANA30.1%
  • MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIO14.5%
  • RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSE11.1%
  • ACCIÓN CIUDADANA5.9%
  • REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANO2.5%
  • FRENTE AMPLIO1.0%
Results for event-92f3dcc68d7504ecdb8ca388
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LIBERACIÓN NACIONALcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161,10034.9%3Recorded
UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201695130.1%1Recorded
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201645914.5%1Recorded
RENOVACIÓN COSTARRICENSEcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/201635011.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACCIÓN CIUDADANAcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/20161855.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
REPUBLICANO SOCIAL CRISTIANOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016792.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FRENTE AMPLIOcosta-rica/S79669f3e5d/2016311%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

50.910–100 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=3.0002255808707403, oldest_gap=4.72266244057052, previous_gap=25.14996667407243

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

63.08percentage 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=[[27.00203022783668,28.829235280848184,0,0,0,1.4211594856756147,0,0,0,0,8.369050304534175,1.466275659824047,32.9122490412813],[26.571872917129525,4.954454565652077,2.9326816263052655,0,0.822039546767385,4.176849588980226,0,51.721839591201956,0,4.843368140413242,0,0,3.9768940235503223],[34.865293185419965,30.142630744849445,5.863708399366086,0.9825673534072901,0,0,14.548335974643424,0,0,2.5039619651347067,0,0,11.09350237717908]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

59.06percentage 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=[[27.00203022783668,28.829235280848184,0,0,0,1.4211594856756147,0,0,0,0,8.369050304534175,1.466275659824047,32.9122490412813],[26.571872917129525,4.954454565652077,2.9326816263052655,0,0.822039546767385,4.176849588980226,0,51.721839591201956,0,4.843368140413242,0,0,3.9768940235503223],[34.865293185419965,30.142630744849445,5.863708399366086,0.9825673534072901,0,0,14.548335974643424,0,0,2.5039619651347067,0,0,11.09350237717908]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

61.07percentage 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=[[27.00203022783668,28.829235280848184,0,0,0,1.4211594856756147,0,0,0,0,8.369050304534175,1.466275659824047,32.9122490412813],[26.571872917129525,4.954454565652077,2.9326816263052655,0,0.822039546767385,4.176849588980226,0,51.721839591201956,0,4.843368140413242,0,0,3.9768940235503223],[34.865293185419965,30.142630744849445,5.863708399366086,0.9825673534072901,0,0,14.548335974643424,0,0,2.5039619651347067,0,0,11.09350237717908]]

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?
SONIA MEDINA MATARRITASINDICATURAS PROPIETARIA2024UNIDOS PODEMOSprincipal
HERNAN AGUILAR RODRIGUEZSINDICATURAS SUPLENTE2024UNIDOS PODEMOSsubstitute
WILLY VENEGAS GUERREROCONCEJALÍAS MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDOS PODEMOSprincipal
GILDA AMADOR PORRASCONCEJALÍAS MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDOS PODEMOSprincipal
YESENIA CARMONA ANCHIACONCEJALÍAS MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
JOSE FABIO PANIAGUA OBANDOCONCEJALÍAS MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIAS2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
JAVIER CASCANTE ROJASCONCEJALÍAS MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDOS PODEMOSsubstitute
EVELYN CHAVARRIA RAMOSCONCEJALÍAS MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDOS PODEMOSsubstitute
KATTIA VANESSA CHAVARRIA BERROCALCONCEJALÍAS MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
ADRIAN DE LOS ANGELES GONZALEZ QUESADACONCEJALÍAS MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2024LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
LUZ ELENA CHAVARRIA SALAZARSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIA2020INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
FREDDY FERNANDEZ MORALESSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2020INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
GERARDO OBANDO RODRIGUEZCONCEJALES MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ARGENTINA DEL ROCIO GUTIERREZ TORUÑOCONCEJALES MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
NEFTALI BRENES CASTROCONCEJALES MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
ALIYURI CASTRO VILLALOBOSCONCEJALES MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
JOSE LUIS JUAREZ MADRIGALCONCEJALES MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
MARIANELA REYES QUIROSCONCEJALES MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ALLAN MANUEL BARRIOS MORACONCEJALES MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020INTEGRACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
EDWARD ARTURO BERROCAL ABARCACONCEJALES MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2020LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
YORLENY ACUÑA GONZALEZSÍNDICOS(AS) PROPIETARIA2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
NEFTALI BRENES CASTROSÍNDICOS(AS) SUPLENTE2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ANA PATRICIA BRENES SOLORZANOCONCEJALES MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
GERARDO OBANDO RODRIGUEZCONCEJALES MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALprincipal
HELLEN GOMEZ AGUEROCONCEJALES MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAprincipal
OSMIN IVAN MORERA ROSALESCONCEJALES MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO PROPIETARIOS(AS)2016MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIOprincipal
ALBANIA ROJAS CASANOVACONCEJALES MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
GERARDO MORA HERNANDEZCONCEJALES MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016LIBERACIÓN NACIONALsubstitute
ROBERTO BOLIVAR BARAHONACONCEJALES MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016UNIDAD SOCIAL CRISTIANAsubstitute
KEILA PATRICIA VEGA CARRILLOCONCEJALES MUNICIPALES DE DISTRITO SUPLENTES2016MOVIMIENTO LIBERTARIOsubstitute

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. “LEPANTO — Syndic and district council — shared ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CR-D-PUNTARENAS-PUNTARENAS-LEPANTO. Sources: costa-rica--url-ae6cfb21525f974d8912a00e, costa-rica--url-9b0bf8940eb485b811da317e, costa-rica--url-f8a1e09c9e89a7e5e9c55114, costa-rica--Sc1df243471, costa-rica--S44a3d3187e, costa-rica--Sfa91292290, costa-rica--Sa66fe5007b, costa-rica--S79669f3e5d, costa-rica--S15dd345bda.