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General elections are due to be held in Costa Rica by February 2026. [1]
The president of Costa Rica is elected using a modified two-round system in which a candidate must receive at least 40% of the vote to win in the first round; if no candidate wins in the first round, a runoff is held between the two candidates with most votes. [2]
The 57 members of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica are elected using closed list proportional representation through the largest remainder method from seven multi-member constituencies with between four and 19 seats, which are based on the seven provinces. [3]
The following table shows the candidates nominated by the eligible parties:
Party | Ideology | Ticket | |||
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Name | 1st Vice President | 2nd Vice President | |||
![]() Broad Front | Democratic socialism | Andrés Ariel Robles Barrantes | Margarita Salas Guzmán | Guillermo Arroyo Muñoz | |
![]() Citizen Agenda (coalition of the Citizen s' Action Party and National Democratic Agenda) | Social democracy | Claudia Vanessa Dobles Camargo | To be determined | ||
![]() Costa Rica First Alliance | Social democracy | Douglas Caamaño Quirós | Lissa Ivannis Freckleton Owens | Carlos Moya Bonilla | |
![]() Costa Rican Democratic Union Party | Social democracy | Boris Molina Acevedo | José Edgardo Morales Romero | Maricela Morales Mora | |
![]() Costa Rica Rules Here | Populism | Ronny Castillo González | Hazel María Arias Mata | William Martín Anderson Lewis | |
![]() Democratic and Social Center Party | Social conservatism | Ana Virginia Calzada Miranda | Oldemar Rodríguez Rojas | Heilen Díaz Gutiérrez | |
![]() Forward | Classical liberalism | José Miguel Aguillar Berrocal | Evita Arguedas Maklouf | To be determined | |
![]() Hope and Freedom Party | Humanism | Marco David Rodríguez Badilla | Carlos Francisco Palacios Franco | Karla Fabiola Romero Cruz | |
![]() National Hope Party | Progressive conservatism | Claudio Alberto Alpízar Otoya | Andrés Castillo Saborío | Nora Elena González Chacón | |
![]() National Liberation Party | Social democracy | Álvaro Roberto Ramos Chaves | Karen Segura Fernández | Xinia María Chaves Quirós | |
![]() New Generation Party | Conservatism | Fernando Zamora Castellanos | Lisbeth Quesada Tristán | Yeudy Sulem Araya Herrera | |
![]() New Republic Party | Conservatism | Gerardo Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz | To be determined | ||
![]() | Liberalism | Eliécer Feinzaig Mintz | Tannia Molina Rojas | To be determined | |
![]() | Christian democracy | Juan Carlos Hidalgo Bogantes | To be determined | ||
![]() Social Democratic Progress Party | Liberalism | Luz Mary Alpízar Loaiza | Frank Alberto Mc Kenzie Peterkin | Maritza Bustamante Venegas | |
![]() Sovereign People's Party | Right-wing populism | Laura Virginia Fernández Delgado | Francisco Ernesto Gamboa Soto | Douglas Soto Campos | |
![]() United We Can | Classical liberalism | Natalia Díaz Quintana | Jorge Ernesto Ocampo Sánchez | Luis Diego Vargas Rodríguez |