2010 Costa Rican general election

none July 2023 Costa Rica state presidential 2006 Costa Rican general election 2006 2014 Costa Rican general election 2014 7 February 2010 yes Presidential election presidential 130x130px 2,822,491 69.12% ( 3.91pp) Laura-Chinchilla-cropped.jpg Laura Chinchilla National Liberation Party (Costa Rica) Alfio PivaLuis Liberman 896,516 46.91% Ottón Solís Fallas, PAC - Costa Rica (cropped).JPG Ottón Solís Fallas Citizens' Action Party (Costa Rica) Mónica SegniniJulio Humphreys 478,877 25.05% Otto Guevara (cropped 2).jpg Otto Guevara Guth Libertarian Movement (Costa Rica) Mario QuirósLorena San Román 399,788 20.92% Elección Presidencial de Costa Rica (2010) (Distritos Administrativos).svg Results by districtChinchilla: #5DA888 30–40% #509577 40–50% #457F66 50–60% #396A55 60–70% #2E5544 70-80% #224033 80-90%Solís: #EDE900 30-40% #CFCC00 40–50% #B1AF00 50-60%Guevara: #b6162e 30-40% #a01328 40–50% #891022 50-60%Tie: #BB8AC8 30–40% #AA6EBB 50% President Oscar Arias National Liberation Party (Costa Rica) Laura Chinchilla National Liberation Party (Costa Rica) yes Legislative election All 57 seats in the Legislative Assembly 29 69.11% ( 3.91pp) National Liberation Party (Costa Rica) Laura Chinchilla Miranda 37.27 24 25 Citizens' Action Party (Costa Rica) Ottón Solís Fallas 17.61 11 17 Libertarian Movement (Costa Rica) Otto Guevara Guth 14.50 9 6 Accessibility without Exclusion Party Óscar López Arias 9.05 4 1 Social Christian Unity Party Luis Fishman Zonzinski 8.16 6 5 Costa Rican Renovation Party Mayra González León 3.85 1 0 Broad Front (Costa Rica) Eugenio Trejos Benavides 3.63 1 1 Elecciones legislativas de Costa Rica de 2010 - Diputados por Provincia.svg Results by province General elections were held in Costa Rica on 7 February 2010. The ruling party before the election, the center-left National Liberation Party, put forward former Vice-President Laura Chinchilla as its presidential candidate, while the libertarian, Movimiento Libertario nominated former legislator Otto Guevara. Opinion polls before voting started consistently put Chinchilla as the front-runner, a trend confirmed in the election-night count, which showed her garnering 46.76% of the vote.http://www.nacion.com/ln_ee/2010/febrero/07/pais2255136.html (in Spanish) 2010-02-08 2010-02-11 https://web.archive.org/web/20100211122142/http://www.nacion.com/ln_ee/2010/febrero/07/pais2255136.html dead The election was supervised by observers from several countries, as well as from the Organization of American States.Jara Francisco https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gZx0yDwahBg3umqRGIX96uw4E--w https://archive.today/20130124161553/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gZx0yDwahBg3umqRGIX96uw4E--w dead 24 January 2013 AFP: First female poised for Costa Rica presidency 2010-02-06 2010-08-21 The incumbent president, Óscar Arias, was ineligible to run for a second consecutive term. This was the last time as of 2019, that the National Liberation Party has gotten more than 30% of the vote, the last time to this date that they have won the presidency, and the last time it has won any province in what is known as the Central Valley (the four provinces in the interior of the country: San José, Alajuela, Heredia and Cartago). Presidential candidates Candidates included: Laura Chinchilla Miranda (ruling National Liberation Party, vice-president 2006–08) Ottón Solís (oppositional Citizens' Action Party, candidate in 2006) Otto Guevara (Movimiento Libertario, candidate in 2006) Luis Fishman (conservative Social Christian Unity Party, vice-president under Abel Pacheco) Two weeks before the election, Patriotic Alliance and National Integration Party's candidates, Rolando Araya and Walter Muñoz, stopped their campaigns and endorsed Citizens' Action Party's candidate Otton Solís, in an effort to build a progressive alliance against Laura Chinchilla.https://www.nacion.com/el-pais/politica/araya-y-munoz-renuncian-a-ser-candidatos-y-apoyan-a-solis/DRRTC4TAPBBVBNP2472YW3I66I/story/ Araya y Muñoz renuncian a ser candidatos y apoyan a Solís Parliamentary elections The swifting from a two-party system to a multi-party system was much more evident in this electionPanorama of Parliament Elections 2010 International Parliamentary Union http://www.ipu.org/pdf/publications/elections10-e.pdfLehring Gary Costa Rican legislative elections show growing voter dissatisfaction with traditional choices http://www.ticotimes.net/2014/02/15/costa-rican-legislative-elections-show-growing-voter-dissatisfaction-with-traditional-choices 13 March 2016 The Tico Times 15 February 2014Landsford Tom Political Handbook of the World 2014 https://books.google.com/books?id=iC_VBQAAQBAJ&q=costa+rica%27s+end+of+two+party+system&pg=PA333 13 March 2016 9781483386263 2014-03-20Landsford Tom Political Handbook of the World 2012 https://books.google.com/books?id=d33MfEFXvW8C&q=costa+rica%27s+end+of+two+party+system&pg=PA332 13 March 2016 9781608719952 2012-04-02 For the then three major parties; PLN, PAC and ML the voting for the presidential ballot was superior to the support in the legislative, as for example PLN presidential candidate Laura Chinchilla received 46%7 February 2010 Presidential Election Results - Costa Rica Totals http://www.electionresources.org/cr/president.php?election=2010 Elections Resources 13 March 2016 of the votes and PLN's legislative ballot only 37%.7 February 2010 Legislative Assembly Election Results - Costa Rica Totals http://www.electionresources.org/cr/deputies.php?election=2010 Election Resources 13 March 2016 Similarly PAC's candidate Ottón Solís with 25% presidential against 17% legislative and Otto Guevara with 20% oppose to 14% legislative. Contrary to PUSC whose candidate Luis Fishman received 3% electoral support while his party received 8%. This was at the time PAC's worst electoral result in its history having the smallest faction in the Parliament and ML's best result with to this date its biggest. PLN only lost one seat. Left-wing Broad Front maintained its only seat in the person of future presidential nominee José María Villalta Florez-Estrada and two Christian partiesLopez Jaime Civic Groups Move Against Gay Marriage in Costa Rica http://news.co.cr/civic-groups-move-against-gay-marriage-in-costa-rica/23281/ 13 March 2016 Costa Rica Star July 18, 2013 for the first time had deputies at the same time; Costa Rican Renewal Party and its provincial offshoot National Restoration. Opinion polls Opinion polling for the 2010 Costa Rican presidential election.chart Opinion polling for the 2010 Costa Rican presidential election.tab 720px CID-Gallup 24 January 2010: Chinchilla 43%; Guevara 30%; Solís 15%; Fishman 8% Borge & Asociados for Diario Extra opinion poll January 2010: Chinchilla 38.7%; Guevara 18.3%; Solís 9.6%; Fishman 3.7% Demoscopía for Al Día January 2010: Chinchilla 45.1%; Guevara 30.1%; Solís 9.5%; Fishman 3.8%http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/view/34985/chinchilla_leads_guevara_gains_in_costa_rica/ Chinchilla Leads, Guevara Gains in Costa Rica: Angus Reid Global Monitor Angus-reid.com 2010-08-21 https://web.archive.org/web/20100205054502/http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/view/34985/chinchilla_leads_guevara_gains_in_costa_rica 2010-02-05 usurped December 2009: Chinchilla 36.7%; Guevara 16.2%; Solís 8.5%; Fishman 2.2% December 2009: Chinchilla 46.6%; Guevara 19.5%; Solís 8.3%; Fishman 4.1% October 2009: Chinchilla 53.0%; Guevara 15.7%; Solís 12.3%; Fishman 1.5% Results President At 9:08 p.m. local time on election day, 7 February second-placed candidate Otton Solis conceded defeat to Laura Chinchilla, who will become Costa Rica's first female president. With approximately 40% of the vote counted, Chinchilla was consistently surpassing the 40% threshold for victory in the first round, leading Solis by 47% to 24%, with third-placed candidate Otto Guevara trailing at 21.5%.http://www.nacion.com/ln_ee/2010/febrero/07/pais2255136.html Solís reconoce victoria de Chinchilla - EL PAÍS nacion.com 2010-08-21 2010-02-11 https://web.archive.org/web/20100211122142/http://www.nacion.com/ln_ee/2010/febrero/07/pais2255136.html dead Laura Chinchilla National Liberation Party 896516 Ottón Solís Citizens' Action Party 478877 Otto Guevara Libertarian Movement 399788 Luis Fishman Zonzinski Social Christian Unity Party 74114 Óscar López Accessibility without Exclusion Party 36104 Mayra González Costa Rican Renewal Party 13945 Eugenio Trejos Broad Front 6782 Rolando Araya Monge Patriotic Alliance 3158 Walter Muñoz National Integration Party 2049 32555 6959 2822491 Election Resources By province Province % PLN % PAC % ML % PUSC % PASE % PRC % Other %National Liberation Party (Costa Rica)Citizens' Action Party (Costa Rica)Libertarian Movement (Costa Rica)Social Christian Unity PartyAccessibility without Exclusion PartyCosta Rican Renovation Party San José 46.6 28.9 17.6 3.6 2.1 0.6 0.6 Alajuela 45.3 26.5 21.9 3.2 1.8 0.8 0.5 Cartago 49.7 23.5 19.4 4.2 2.1 0.4 0.7 Heredia 46.6 27.6 19.5 3.2 1.8 0.6 0.7 Puntarenas 48.9 17.3 26.7 4.4 1.3 0.8 0.6 Limón 41.6 17.5 31.4 5.0 1.7 1.9 0.9 Guanacaste 51.4 15.9 23.3 6.1 1.6 1.2 0.6 Total 46.8 25.1 20.9 3.9 1.9 0.7 0.8 Legislative Assembly File:Costa Rica Legislative Assembly 2010.svg National Liberation Party 708043 24 –1 Citizens' Action Party 334636 11 –6 Libertarian Movement 275518 9 +3 Accessibility without Exclusion Party 171858 4 +3 Social Christian Unity Party 155047 6 +1 Costa Rican Renewal Party 73150 1 +1 Broad Front 68987 1 0 National Restoration Party 29530 1 0 Patriotic Alliance 28349 0 New National Integration Party 14643 0 0 Cartago Agrarian Union Party 11862 0 0 Heredia Restoration Party 7953 0 New Alajuela Restoration Party 7298 0 New Cartaginese Transparency Party 4590 0 New #FFFFFF Green Ecologist Party 2901 0 New #008080 Elderly Alliance Party 2724 0 New #AFEEEE Alajuelan Familiar Force Party 1609 0 New #000000 Workers' and Farmers' Movement 1127 0 New #556B2F 30806 20077 0 2822491 Election Resources By constituency Constituency PLN PAC ML PUSC PASE PRC FA PREN AP Other colspan="2" National Liberation Party (Costa Rica) colspan="2" Citizens' Action Party (Costa Rica) colspan="2" Libertarian Movement (Costa Rica) colspan="2" Social Christian Unity Party colspan="2" Accessibility without Exclusion Party colspan="2" Costa Rican Renovation Party colspan="2" Broad Front (Costa Rica) colspan="2" National Restoration Party (Costa Rica) % S % S % S % S % S % S % S % S % S % S San José 35.57 19.04 12.32 7.42 11.12 3.01 4.71 4.31 1.10 1.60 Alajuela 38.25 19.92 16.52 6.51 8.51 6.50 1.30 2.00 1.90 0.80 Cartago 38.93 17.01 13.11 7.61 7.91 2.80 2.80 -0 1.20 8.50 Heredia 37.02 19.12 13.91 7.30 8.70 2.90 4.80 4.00 1.90 0.50 Puntarenas 39.72 14.31 18.61 13.81 5.10 4.30 2.20 -0 1.10 1.00 Limón 33.32 12.01 20.11 10.21 5.60 8.60 7.30 -0 1.20 1.80 Guanacaste 43.13 11.60 13.51 11.00 10.00 5.10 2.20 -0 3.10 0.30 Total 37.324 17.611 14.59 8.26 9.04 3.91 3.61 2.41 1.50 2.00 Municipal Councils 2010 Costa Rican municipal elections The elections of municipal councilors of Costa Rica in 2010 were an electoral process held in parallel with the presidential and legislative elections. In them the 495 tenure aldermen and the 495 alternates that conform the 81 Municipal Councils were chosen. The Central Canton of San José, the most populous, named 13 aldermen. Desamparados and Alajuela named 11. Others less populated (Puntarenas, Limón, Pococí, Heredia, Cartago, La Unión, San Carlos, Goicoechea, Pérez Zeledón, etc.) named 9. Others even smaller (Tibás, Grecia, Vázquez de Coronado, Montes de Oca, Siquirres, Escazú, Turrialba, etc.) appointed 7 council members. Finally, the smallest (Turrubares, San Mateo, Santa Ana, Mora, Montes de Oro, Talamanca, etc.) named 5. National Liberation Party 700659 196 –32 Citizens' Action Party 331167 100 –39 Libertarian Movement 255411 76 +40 Social Christian Unity Party 174462 55 –4 Accessibility without Exclusion Party 143273 22 New Costa Rican Renewal Party 51302 10 +6 Broad Front 45399 1 +1 Patriotic Alliance 28738 3 New National Restoration Party 24690 1 –1 21st Century Curridabat 5643 4 +2 Renew Alajuela Party 13403 1 New #000000 National Integration Party 10121 0 0 Heredia Restoration Party 8797 0 New Escazu's Progressive Yoke 8145 2 0 Green Ecologist Party 5319 0 0 #008080 Sancarlenean Alliance Coalition (FA–AP) 4895 1 New Cartago Agrarian Union Party 9029 1 –1 Ramonense League Coalition (FA–AP) 4662 1 New Palmarenean Union Party 4158 2 0 #5DFF2E Party of the Sun 4077 2 0 Fuenteovejuna Civic Party of Tibás 3655 1 New #D06F00 Alajuela Restoration Party 3414 0 New Santo Domingo Advancement Movement 3398 1 New #FFFC63 Goicoechea in Action Party 3348 1 +1 #d8e300 United Barva Coalition (FA–PASE) 3017 1 New Alajuelense Coalition (FA–AP) 2980 1 New The Bridge and Paths of Mora 2962 1 –1 #00528B Authentic Labourer of Coronado Party 2848 1 0 #2A2CC1 Ateniense Union Party 2602 1 New #E05353 Barbarenean Integration Party 2369 1 New #A23B00 Elderly Alliance Party 2279 0 New #AFEEEE Unique Abangarean Party 2229 2 New #EDE800 Cantonal Action Independent Siquirres Party 2116 1 0 #707070 United Montes de Oca Coalition (FA–PH) 2086 0 New Social Active Organization 2025 1 New #4F45FF Independent Belemite Party 2014 1 0 #e76100 Live Buenos Aires Party 1791 1 New #e79600 Communal Pro-Curri Party 1718 0 –1 #8B8EFF United Heredia Coalition (FA–PH) 1403 0 New Quepeña Action Party 1386 0 –2 #a26900 Autonomous Oromontan Party 1170 1 0 #03A500 Workers' and Peasants' Movement 1120 0 0 #8B0700 Naranjenean Action Party 1047 0 New #666D19 Alfaro Ruiz Peoples' Coalition (FA–AP) 1023 1 New Tarrazú First Party 991 0 New #bd7e5f Barbarenean Coalition (FA–AP) 831 0 New Ecological Garabito Party 709 1 0 #61A5AE United Talamanca Party 508 0 New green Aguirre Labour Organization Party 456 0 0 #0033FF Poasenean Patriotic Front Coalition (FA–AP) 345 0 New –4 55066 2822491 TSEhttp://atlaselectoral.tse.go.cr/regiduria/2010/area Elecciones Regidurías 2010 es tse.go.cr Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones 21 May 2020 References Bruce M. Wilson and Juan Carlos Rodríguez-Cordero: "The general election in Costa Rica, February 2010". In Electoral Studies, Volume 30, Issue 1, March 2011, pages 231-234. Category:Parliamentary elections in Costa Rica Costa Rica General Costa Category:Presidential elections in Costa Rica