2014 Costa Rican general election

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2014 Costa Rican general election
Flag of Costa Rica (state).svg
  2010 2 February 2014 (first round)
6 April 2014 (second round)
2018  
Presidential election
Turnout68.48% (first round) Decrease2.svg 0.64pp
56.50% (second round)
  President Luis Guillermo Solis.jpg Boda Johnny Araya & Sandra Leon (9226446584) (cropped).jpg
Nominee Luis Guillermo Solís Johnny Araya
Party PAC PLN
Running mate Helio Fallas
Ana Helena Chacón
Jorge Pattoni
Silvia Lara
Popular vote1,338,321 374,844
Percentage77.77%22.23%

Resultados 2014 Presidente.svg
Resultados 2014 Segunda ronda.svg

President before election

Laura Chinchilla
PLN

Elected President

Luis Guillermo Solís
PAC

Legislative election

All 57 seats in the Legislative Assembly
29 seats needed for a majority
PartyLeader%Seats+/–
PLN Johnny Araya Monge 25.7118−6
PAC Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera 23.4813+2
FA José María Villalta Florez-Estrada 13.149+8
PUSC Rodolfo Piza Rocafort 10.028+2
PML Otto Guevara Guth 7.944−5
PRC Justo Orozco Álvarez4.112+1
PREN Carlos Avendaño Calvo 4.0610
PASE Óscar Andrés López Arias3.971−3
ADC Mario Redondo Poveda1.171New
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Elecciones legislativas de Costa Rica de 2014 - Diputados por Provincia.svg
Results by province

General elections were held in Costa Rica on Sunday, 2 February 2014 to elect a new president, two vice presidents, and 57 Legislative Assembly lawmakers. [1] In accordance with Article 132 of the constitution, incumbent President Laura Chinchilla Miranda was ineligible to run for a second consecutive term. [2]

Contents

The ruling National Liberation Party put forward San José Mayor Johnny Araya Monge as its presidential candidate; the Libertarian Movement party nominated former legislator Otto Guevara Guth; the leftist Broad Front nominated José María Villalta Florez-Estrada; and the center-left Citizens' Action Party nominated Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera.

Opinion polls in December 2013 showed Araya ahead with 37 percent, Villalta close behind at 32 percent, Guevara at 15 percent, and Solís trailing at eight percent, suggesting the likelihood of a run-off vote in February. [3] [4] Villalta's strong showing in the polls caused concern among Araya supporters and business leaders in Costa Rica. La Nacion, Costa Rica's most important newspaper and a historical ally of Liberacion Nacional, began a concerted series of attacks against Villalta, comparing him to Venezuela's Hugo Chávez. Political experts later concluded that this focus on Villalta helped Luis Guillermo Solis in the election. [5]

In the presidential election, Solís and Araya came first and second, respectively, with neither candidate reaching 40 percent of the valid poll in the first round of voting, so a second round of voting was held from 6am to 6pm on 6 April, the first run-off election since 2002. [3] [6]

In a surprise move, Araya announced on 6 March that he would abandon his campaign for the run-off election. He stated that after weighing his chances it was only sensible to withdraw from the campaign. Recent polls had indicated that he was trailing badly behind Solís and he believed that spending money on campaigning was not prudent. Although Araya's action effectively handed the presidency to Solís, the run-off still had to take place since Costa Rican law does not allow for a candidate to withdraw from a run-off election. [7] Ultimately, Solís won the second round with 78 percent of the vote, a historic high in Costa Rica. [8] [9] Unlike the first round, Solís won a majority in every province. [10]

Presidential candidates

There were thirteen political parties on the 2014 ballot, each one with their corresponding ticket of a president and two vice-presidents. [11]

PartyPresidentFirst VicepresidentSecond Vicepresident
Citizens' Action Party Luis Guillermo Solís

Foreign Ministry's Chief of Staff (1986-1990), Ambassador of Central American Affairs (1994-1998)

Helio Fallas

Minister of Planning (1990-1994), Minister of Housing (2002-2006)

Ana Helena Chacón

Vice Minister of Public Safety (2002-2006), Deputy (2006-2010)

National Liberation Party Johnny Araya

San José Mayor (1998- )

Jorge Pattoni

General Manager Dos Pino's Corporation (1992-2013)

Silvia Lara

President of Joint Social Welfare Institute (2002-2006)

Broad Front José María Villalta Florez-Estrada

Deputy (2010–2014)

María Dagmare Facio FernándezWalter Antillón Montealegre
Libertarian Movement Otto Guevara

Deputy
(1998–2002)

Thelmo Vargas MadrigalAbriel Gordienko López
Social Christian Unity Party Rodolfo Emilio Piza de Rocafort

Executive President of Costa Rican Department of Social Security (1998–2002)

Carlos Eduardo Araya GuillénPatricia Vega Herrera
New Homeland Party José Miguel Corrales Bolaños

Deputy (2002–2006)

Lizbeth Dora Quesada TristánÓscar Aguilar Bulgarelli
National Restoration Party Carlos Luis Avendaño Calvo Rose Mary Zúñiga RamírezPablo Josué Chaves Illanes
Costa Rican Renewal Party Justo Orozco Álvarez Ana Dinorah Rodríguez RojasRafael Ángel Matamoros Mesén
Accessibility without Exclusion (PASE) Óscar Andrés López Arias Zulema Villalta BolañosMarvin Alberto Marín Zúñiga
New Generation Party Sergio Mena DíazLuz Mary Alpízar LoaizaCarlos Francisco Moreno Bustos
Workers' Party (PT)Héctor Enrique Monestel HerreraJessica Barquero BarrantesGreivis González López
National Advance PartyJosé Manuel Echandi MezaCarmen Lidia Pérez RamírezGabriel Zamora Márquez
National Integration Party Walter Muñoz CéspedesVivian González TrejosRodrigo Arguedas Cortés

Opinion polls

If no candidate surmounts the 40% threshold, the two candidates who would qualify for the runoff are marked. No poll accurately predicted the first or second round voting results.

DatePollster

Johnny Araya
(PLN)

Otto Guevara
(ML)

Rodolfo Piza
(R. Hernández before October 2013)
(PUSC)

L.G. Solís
(PAC)

J.M. Villalta
(FA)

Others

Aug 2013Borge y Asociados [12] 52%9.7%23%8.2%3.5%
Aug 2013CIEP [13] 20.2%1.4%12.4%4.1%4.5%
Sep 2013Unimer [14] 27.5%9.7%10.6%4.4%19%26%
Oct 2013CIEP [15] 24%9.9%3%4%9.7%1.3%
Nov 2013Borge y Asociados [16] 26%16%4%4%19%26%
Nov 2013Cid Gallup [17] 45%15%8%10%21%
Dec 2013Unimer [4] 19%19%5%8%22%11%
Dec 2013CIEP [18] 17%10%3%5%15%1%
Dec 2013Cid Gallup [19] 37%15%5%9%32%
14 Jan 2014Cid Gallup [20] 39%18%5%7%26%
16 Jan 2014Unimer [21] 20.3%20.2%3.6%5.4%22.2%5.8%
21 Jan 2014CIEP [22] 20.4%11.2%3.1%9.5%15.3%4.6%
28 Jan 2014Cid Gallup [23] 35.6%17.6%6.5%15.6%21%3.8%
28 Jan 2014CIEP [24] 17.4%7.3%3.4%11.6%14.4%

Results

Results of vote overseas, gold PAC, green PLN and yellow FA. Resultados elecciones costarricenses 2014 en el extranjero primera ronda.png
Results of vote overseas, gold PAC, green PLN and yellow FA.

President

The results of the first-round final count were declared on 17 February 2014, [25] with the results of the second-round eighth count being declared on 7 April 2014: [26]

CandidatePartyFirst roundSecond round
Votes%Votes%
Luis Guillermo Solís Citizens' Action Party 629,86630.641,338,32177.77
Johnny Araya Monge National Liberation Party 610,63429.71382,60022.23
José María Villalta Florez-Estrada Broad Front 354,47917.25
Otto Guevara Libertarian Movement 233,06411.34
Rodolfo Piza Rocafort Social Christian Unity Party 123,6536.02
José Miguel Corrales Bolaños New Fatherland Party30,8161.50
Carlos Avendaño National Restoration Party 27,6911.35
Justo Orozco Costa Rican Renewal Party 16,7210.81
Óscar López Accessibility without Exclusion 10,3390.50
Sergio Mena New Generation Party 5,8820.29
Héctor Monestel Workers' Party 4,8970.24
José EchandNational Advance Party4,3880.21
Walter Muñoz National Integration Party 3,0420.15
Total2,055,472100.001,720,921100.00
Valid votes2,055,47297.921,720,92198.95
Invalid/blank votes43,7472.0818,3141.05
Total votes2,099,219100.001,739,235100.00
Registered voters/turnout3,065,66768.483,078,32156.50
Source: Election Resources

By province

First round

Province  % PAC  % PLN  % FA  % ML  % PUSC  %PPN % PREN  %Other %
Bandera de San Jose (Costa Rica).svg  San José 36.228.515.210.05.31.41.41.9
Bandera de la Provincia de Alajuela.svg  Alajuela 31.129.818.310.45.42.11.11.8
Bandera de Cartago (Costa Rica).svg  Cartago 34.827.814.711.46.32.10.91.9
Bandera de la Provincia de Heredia.svg  Heredia 38.625.816.59.81.21.21.65.3
Bandera de la Provincia de Puntarenas.svg  Puntarenas 14.134.423.214.68.50.72.02.6
Bandera de la Provincia de Limon.svg  Limón 14.629.222.218.17.70.81.95.6
Bandera de la Provincia de Guanacaste.svg  Guanacaste 14.940.819.112.87.80.91.32.5
Total30.629.717.311.36.11.51.42.2

Second round

Province PAC  % PLN  %
Bandera de San Jose (Costa Rica).svg  San José 77.622.3
Bandera de la Provincia de Alajuela.svg  Alajuela 78.921.1
Bandera de Cartago (Costa Rica).svg  Cartago 80.319.6
Bandera de la Provincia de Heredia.svg  Heredia 80.819.1
Bandera de la Provincia de Puntarenas.svg  Puntarenas 73.126.8
Bandera de la Provincia de Limon.svg  Limón 77.522.4
Bandera de la Provincia de Guanacaste.svg  Guanacaste 69.730.2
Total77.822.1

Legislative Assembly

Although Solís' PAC received the most votes in the presidential elections, [27] the party did not won in the parliamentary voting making PLN the largest party in the Assembly with 18 deputies over PAC's 13. [28]

Leftist party Broad Front surprised with its results, achieving 9 seats, [29] first time ever that the Left achieved such a big number. [28] Social Christian Unity Party recovered part of its former influence [29] by turning into the fourth political party in legislative size even when its candidate Rodolfo Piza was fifth in the presidential vote. [30] The opposite happened to Otto Guevara’s right-wing Libertarian Movement, [29] fourth in presidential votes, [30] which stood fifth in legislative elections, and as a result, the number of its deputies was reduced from 9 to 4. [29] [28] Oscar Lopez’s PASE party also suffered a diminishment in number of deputies from 4 to 1 (Lopez himself). [29] [31]

Three Christian parties, oriented toward the Protestant minority [32] and very socially conservative, also achieved deputies: Costa Rican Renewal Party 2, National Restoration 1 and Christian Democratic Alliance 1. [31]

Costa Rica Legislative Assembly 2014.svg
PartyVotes%Seats+/–
National Liberation Party 526,53125.7118–6
Citizens' Action Party 480,96923.4813+2
Broad Front 269,17813.149+8
Social Christian Unity Party 205,24710.028+2
Libertarian Movement 162,5597.944–5
National Restoration Party 84,2654.1110
Costa Rican Renewal Party 83,0834.062+1
Accessibility without Exclusion 81,2913.971–3
New Fatherland Party42,2342.060New
New Generation Party 25,0601.220New
Christian Democratic Alliance 23,8861.171New
National Advance Party19,8950.970New
Workers' Party 12,9980.6300
National Integration Party 11,3070.5500
Transporters' Party5,6390.280New
Patriotic Alliance 4,8530.2400
Viva Puntarenas Party4,4170.220New
Green Party2,1480.100New
Homel, Equality and Dem. Party of Puntarenas1,3760.070New
Homeland, Equality and Democracy Party1,0880.050New
New Socialist Party2770.010New
Total2,048,301100.00570
Valid votes2,048,30197.72
Invalid/blank votes47,8542.28
Total votes2,096,155100.00
Registered voters/turnout3,065,66768.38
Source: Election Resources

By province

Province PLN PAC FA PUSC ML PREN PRC PASE PPN PNG Other
 %S %S %S %S %S %S %S %S %S %S %S
Bandera de San Jose (Costa Rica).svg  San José 23.5527.2512.128.827.525.313.914.212.001.803.50
Bandera de la Provincia de Alajuela.svg  Alajuela 27.4425.2314.028.317.713.204.004.103.000.802.40
Bandera de Cartago (Costa Rica).svg  Cartago 24.4223.5211.1110.717.102.401.504.602.200.9011.61
Bandera de la Provincia de Heredia.svg  Heredia 23.9231.5212.719.117.604.702.403.901.601.001.60
Bandera de la Provincia de Puntarenas.svg  Puntarenas 28.5212.8114.8115.319.004.203.303.900.901.305.90
Bandera de la Provincia de Limon.svg  Limón 26.0110.5015.9111.4110.613.2012.613.600.900.904.40
Bandera de la Provincia de Guanacaste.svg  Guanacaste 34.6211.5016.0114.019.003.504.601.602.400.502.20
Total25.71823.51313.1910.087.944.113.923.912.101.204.41

Candidates elected

Fifty-seven legislators were elected and took office on 1 May 2014, eleven of whom had been members of the Legislative Assembly in the past. Five were from the National Liberation Party: Antonio Álvarez Desanti, Juan Luis Jiménez, Olivier Jiménez, Rolando González, and Sandra Piszk. Two were from the Citizen Action Party: Epsy Campbell and Ottón Solís. Mario Redondo of the Christian Democratic Alliance served previously with the Social Christian Unity Party. The others were Otto Guevara of the Libertarian Movement Party, Oscar López of Accessibility Without Exclusion, and Jorge Rodríguez of the Social Christian Unity Party. [33] The full list is as follows: [34]

ProvinceCédulaCandidateParty
Bandera de San Jose (Costa Rica).svg  San José 104300205 Ottón Solís Fallas PAC
San José106070983 Epsy Campbell Barr PAC
San José104990698 Víctor Hugo Morales Zapata PAC
San José108460152 Marcela Guerrero Campos PAC
San José601780481 Ruperto Marvin Atencio Delgado PAC
San José104890842Antonio Álvarez Desanti PLN
San José103570156Sara Ángela Piszk FeinzilberPLN
San José400850902Carlos Manuel Arguedas RamírezPLN
San José700490709Maureen Cecilia Clarke ClarkePLN
San José202751177Juan Luis Jiménez SuccarPLN
San José104710261 Ana Patricia Mora Castellanos FA
San José104110109Jorge Arturo Arguedas MoraFA
San José105270922Humberto Vargas Corrales PUSC
San José106730022Rosibel Ramos MadrigalPUSC
San José105440893 Otto Guevara Guth PML
San José112260846Natalia Díaz QuintanaPML
San José108820284Gerardo Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz PRN
San José107890915Óscar Andrés López Arias PASE
San José108910592Gonzalo Alberto Ramírez Zamora PRC
Bandera de la Provincia de Alajuela.svg  Alajuela 202740540Rolando González UlloaPLN
Alajuela202700539Aracelli Segura RetanaPLN
Alajuela109780035Michael Jake Arce SanchoPLN
Alajuela206470280Silvia Vanessa Sánchez VenegasPLN
Alajuela204060127 Javier Francisco Cambronero Arguedas PAC
Alajuela900500822 Nidia María Jiménez Vásquez PAC
Alajuela110350156 Franklin Corella Vargas PAC
Alajuela204830663Edgardo Vinicio Araya SibajaFA
Alajuela203440441Ligia Elena Fallas RodríguezFA
Alajuela104410073Rafael Ángel Ortiz FábregaPUSC
Alajuela106730801José Alberto Alfaro JiménezPML
Bandera de Cartago (Costa Rica).svg  Cartago 302880372Paulina María Ramírez PortuguezPLN
Cartago302350106Julio Antonio Rojas AstorgaPLN
Cartago104110201 Emilia Molina Cruz PAC
Cartago106670558 Marco Vinicio Redondo Quirós PAC
Cartago302990664José Francisco Camacho LeivaFA
Cartago301940611Jorge Rodríguez ArayaPUSC
Cartago105890526Mario Redondo Poveda ADC
Bandera de la Provincia de Heredia.svg  Heredia 105120548 Henry Mora Jiménez PAC
Heredia204740785 Marlene Madrigal Flores PAC
Heredia108490121Rony Monge SalasPLN
Heredia401300696Lorelly Trejos SalasPLN
Heredia401470385José Antonio Ramírez AguilarFA
Heredia401300350William Alvarado BogantesPUSC
Bandera de la Provincia de Guanacaste.svg  Guanacaste 106070406Juan Rafael Marín QuirósPLN
Guanacaste501880832Marta Arabela Arauz MoraPLN
Guanacaste204240362Ronal Vargas ArayaFA
Guanacaste502950673Johnny Leiva BadillaPUSC
Bandera de la Provincia de Puntarenas.svg  Puntarenas 503090116Karla Vanessa Prendas MatarritaPLN
Puntarenas202820663Olivier Ibo Jiménez RojasPLN
Puntarenas110230742Gerardo Vargas RojasPUSC
Puntarenas502560320Carlos Enrique Hernández ÁlvarezFA
Puntarenas104160452 Laura María Garro Sánchez PAC
Bandera de la Provincia de Limon.svg  Limón 900840835Danny Hayling CarcachePLN
Limón302420343Gerardo Vargas VarelaFA
Limón502170327Abelino Esquivel QuesadaPRC
Limón107880624Luis Alberto Vásquez CastroPUSC
Limón303050502 Carmen Quesada Santamaría PML

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