1994 Costa Rican general election

None July 2023 Costa Rica state 1990 Costa Rican general election 1990 1994 02 06 y Costa Rican general election, 1998 1998 yes Presidential election presidential 1,881,348 81.11% ( 0.70pp) Jose maria figueres olsen.jpg José María Figueres Rodrigo Oreamuno Rebeca Grynspan National Liberation Party (Costa Rica) 739,339 49.62% Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría.jpg Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Abel Pacheco Mabel Nieto Social Christian Unity Party 711,328 47.74% Elección Presidencial de Costa Rica (1994) (Distritos Administrativos).svg Results by districtFigueres: #509577 40–50% #457F66 50–60% #396A55 60–70% #2E5544 70-80% #224033 80-90%Rodríguez: #3E56BF 40–50% #354AA4 50–60% #2C3D89 60–70% President Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier Social Christian Unity Party José María Figueres National Liberation Party (Costa Rica) yes Legislative election All 57 seats in the Legislative Assembly 29 81.09% ( 0.70pp) National Liberation Party (Costa Rica) José María Figueres 44.61 28 25 Social Christian Unity Party Miguel Ángel Rodríguez 40.38 25 29 Democratic Force (Costa Rica) Vladimir de la Cruz es Vladimir de la Cruz de Lemos 5.32 2 0 Cartago Agrarian Union Party Juan Guillermo Brenes es Cachimbal 1.11 1 1 National Agrarian Party (Costa Rica) Víctor Hugo Núñez Torres 0.92 1 0 Elecciones legislativas de Costa Rica de 1994 - Diputados por Provincia.svg Results by province General elections were held in Costa Rica on 6 February 1994.Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p155 978-0-19-928357-6Lehoucq Fabrice Edouard 1995 The Costa Rican general elections of 6 February 1994 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0261-3794(95)95770-b Electoral Studies 14 1 69–72 10.1016/0261-3794(95)95770-b 0261-3794 subscription José María Figueres of the National Liberation Party won the presidential election, whilst his party also won the parliamentary election. Voter turnout was 81%.Nohlen, p157 Campaign The primary election were the main focus of controversy during the campaign, as they were particularly negative. In the case of the Social Christian Unity Party (PUSC), Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría made a second attempt to earn the nomination running against José Joaquín Trejos Fonseca, son of former president José Joaquín Trejos Fernández. The campaign was very ideological with Trejos accusing Rodríguez of not really being Christian Democrat nor following the ideals of Christian socialism and instead being neoliberal. Rodríguez indeed acknowledged to follow classical liberalism and advocated for small government, but without completely abandoning Christian Democracy's ideas.Picado León Hugo Proceso de selección de candid atos a presidente y diputados en el PLN y el PUSC (1990-2006) Proyecto OIR/OPAL http://americo.usal.es/oir/opal/disc/OPAL_CostaRica_Picado.pdf The PLN's primary was more focused on personal attacks. In it José María Figueres Olsen, son of PLN's caudillo and former president José Figueres Ferrer, faced popular anti-corruption and anti-narcotraffic deputy José Miguel Corrales, alongside other candidates like former First Lady Margarita Penón (wife of Óscar Arias) and San José Mayor Rolando Araya (nephew of former president Luis Alberto Monge). Thus, most candidates except Corrales came from important political families. Figueres' image was affected by the "Chemise Case", the allegations that he was involved in the murder of a young drug dealer while in custody during one of his father's governments. Figueres sued the authors of the book accusing him, and won, but the controversy was still used by Corrales in campaign, to no avail as Figueres won the primary election. Corrales did not support him afterward. The negative campaign continued after the primaries. Rodríguez used the "Chemise Case" too and also accused Figueres of not being Catholic and belonging to the Christian Science movement, of having a military upraising due to his father's past as revolutionary caudillo and the fact that he's a West Point graduate, etc., in order to cause fear of an authoritarian government. Figueres campaign on the other hand tried to show Rodríguez as a cold, heartless entrepreneur with neoliberal ideas as a counterpart to Figueres social-democratic ideology. Results President José María Figueres National Liberation Party 739339 Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Social Christian Unity Party 711328 Miguel Zúñiga Díaz es Miguel Salguero Democratic Force 28274 Rafael Ángel Matamoros Christian National Alliance Party es Alianza Nacional Cristiana 4980 Jorge González Martén es National Independent Party 2426 Norma Vargas Duarte es General Union Party es Partido Unión Generaleña 2150 Holman Esquivel Garrote Independent Party (Costa Rica) es Partido Independiente (Costa Rica) Independent Party 1600 30663 5219 1881348 Election Resources By province Province Figueres % Rodríguez% Zúñiga % Matamoros % González % Vargas % Esquivel % San José 49.63 47.29 2.39 0.28 0.16 0.17 0.08 Alajuela 50.30 47.41 1.71 0.29 0.13 0.08 0.09 Cartago 50.33 46.81 2.03 0.35 0.20 0.16 0.12 Heredia 49.89 46.91 2.57 0.27 0.14 0.13 0.08 Guanacaste 50.03 48.66 0.62 0.26 0.14 0.08 0.20 Puntarenas 49.06 49.09 0.75 0.59 0.19 0.21 0.12 Limón 46.26 51.27 1.26 0.56 0.23 0.17 0.25 Total 49.62 47.74 1.90 0.33 0.16 0.14 0.11 Legislative Assembly File:Costa Rica_Legislative Assembly_1994.svg National Liberation Party 658258 28 +3 Social Christian Unity Party 595802 25 –4 Democratic Force 78454 2 +2 General Union Party es Partido Unión Generaleña 25420 0 –1 Christian National Alliance Party es Alianza Nacional Cristiana 21064 0 0 People's Vanguard Party 20026 0 0 Cartago Agrarian Union Party 16336 1 0 National Agrarian Party (Costa Rica) es Partido Agrario Nacional National Agrarian Party 13589 1 +1 National Independent Party 12767 0 0 Alajuelense Democratic Action 11630 0 0 Independent Party (Costa Rica) es Partido Independiente (Costa Rica) Independent Party 9213 0 0 Authentic Limonense Party 5468 0 0 Agrarian Labour Action Party 3859 0 0 Independent Guanacaste Party 2843 0 New National Convergence Party 864 0 New black 33702 16329 0 1881348 Election Resources By province Province PLN PUSC FD PUGEN ANC PVP PNI Others % S % S % S % S % S % S % S % S San José 44.2110 39.769 8.302 2.340 1.530 1.840 1.500 0.520 Alajuela 46.365 41.265 3.430 0.400 1.150 0.620 0.350 6.430 Cartago 43.933 37.732 3.390 2.470 0.880 0.660 0.610 10.331 Heredia 45.933 40.932 7.860 1.730 1.180 1.280 0.510 0.580 Guanacaste 47.233 44.022 1.880 0.730 0.610 -- 0.430 5.090 Puntarenas 45.813 43.633 1.850 2.490 3.330 2.040 0.550 0.300 Limón 36.851 37.142 0.960 0.460 1.280 2.510 0.360 20.441 Total 44.6128 40.3825 5.322 1.720 1.430 1.360 0.870 4.312 Local governments Alderpeople +/– Municipalsyndics +/– National Liberation Party 684648 269 +37 323 +162 Social Christian Unity Party 612918 232 –42 105 –160 Democratic Force 72412 22 +22 0 0 General Union Party es Partido Unión Generaleña 24148 4 0 0 0 People's Vanguard Party 19069 2 New 0 New National Agrarian Party (Costa Rica) es Partido Agrario Nacional National Agrarian Party 16667 7 +5 0 0 Alajuelense Democratic Action 11549 3 +3 0 0 National Independent Party 8717 0 0 0 0 Independent Party (Costa Rica) es Partido Independiente (Costa Rica) Independent Party 6036 1 0 0 0 Agrarian Labour Action Party 4979 0 –3 0 New Independent Guanacaste Party 4878 2 New 0 New Authentic Limonense Party 4534 1 0 0 0 National Convergence Party 3563 0 New 0 New black New Alajuelita Party 2584 1 0 0 0 +18 +2 49170 1691689 TSEhttp://atlaselectoral.tse.go.cr/regiduria/1990/area Elecciones Regidurías 1994 Spanish tse.go.cr Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones 21 May 2020 References Costa General Category:Parliamentary elections in Costa Rica Costa Rica Category:Presidential elections in Costa Rica