2010 Costa Rican municipal elections

Municipal elections were held in Costa Rica on 5 December 2010. Were the third municipal elections in the history of the country and the last on be held in December of the same electoral year due to an electoral reform that turned municipal election to be held mid-term. Because of this the Electoral Supreme Court mandate the constitutional period of the newly elected authorities to last for 6 years for one unique time. The election was for mayors of the 81 cantons, syndics and district councilors for all the country's districts and 8 Intendants for 8 especial autonomous districts.[2]

2010 Costa Rican municipal elections
5 December 2010
81 mayors, 470 syndics, 1856 district councillors, 8 intendants, 32 municipal district councillor and their alternates[1]
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Bernal Jiménez Monge Gerardo Vargas Rojas Elizabeth Fonseca Corrales
Party PLN PUSC PAC
Mayors 58 9 6
Mayors +/– 1 3 1
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Otto Guevara Guth Óscar Andrés López Arias Justo Orozco Álvarez
Party ML PASE PRC
Mayors 2 2 1
Mayors +/– 1 2 1

Then ruling National Liberation Party was victorious retaining all but one of the mayorships it held before and 6 of the 7 provincial capitals (all except Liberia).[3] The historical Social Christian Unity Party was the second largest municipal force as before and main opposition party Citizens' Action Party was the third largest unable to repeat its general success in presidential and legislative vote (been the second largest in both in the latest election). The liberal Libertarian Movement and the conservative Accessibility without Exclusion achieve 2 mayors each. While other two mayors came from two local forces in Curridabat and Escazu and one only mayor was elected for the religious Christian party Costa Rican Renewal.

Results
Party District Councillors Mayors
PLN 2530 58
PUSC 652 9
PAC 492 6
ML 320 2
PASE 84 2
PRC 58 1
PIN 24 0
21st Century Curridabat 12 1
Escazu's Progressive Yoke 2 1
Atenian Union Party 19 0
Party of the Sun 11 0
Palmarian Union Party 11 0
Santo Domingo Advance Movement 10 0
FA 8 0
Goicoechea in Action 7 0
Patriotic Alliance 6 0
The Bridge and the Roads of Mora 5 0
Active Social Organization 5 0
Oromontan Autonomous Party 4 0
All for Flores 4 0
Ecological Garabito Party 4 0
Tarrazu First 3 0
Independent Siquirres Cantonal Action Party 2 0
Independent Belemite Party 2 0
Let's Renew Alajuela 2 0
Fuenteovejuna Civic Party of Tibás 2 0
Abangaran Unique Party 2 0

See also

References
  1. Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones. "Elecciones municipales en cifras 2002-2016" (PDF). tse.go.cr. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  2. "Costa Rica". Retrieved 13 March 2016.
  3. "He's back: Johnny Araya will be San José mayor again, while his former party leads in other mayoral races". The Tico Times. January 7, 2016. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
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