Costa Ricans began voting Sunday to elect the authorities that will govern their 82 municipalities over the next four years. Preliminary results by Costa Rica's Supreme Elections Tribunal (TSE) on ...

Observers hope reforms to municipal Costa Rica elections will help reverse the country's anemic turnout record at the polls on Feb. 7.

In early February, I had the opportunity to represent the United States as an international observer of the municipal elections in Costa Rica. I attended at the invitation of the constitutional ...

Bob Glass says that only 23.7% of the eligible voters participated in Costa Rica's Sunday municipal elections. Election results here.

In terms of gender parity, Costa Rica is one of the world's leading countries at national level with 47 per cent of women in the Asamblea Legislativa. At municipal level, however, only eight women ...

The election was free and fair, as Costa Rica's elections usually are. There were none of the irregularities seen in, say, Honduras' contested November 2017 presidential election.

Costa Rica’s Supreme Court has asked the country’s legislature to strip President Rodrigo Chaves of his legal immunity so he ...

Costa Rica’s president will be decided in a runoff after none of the record twenty-five candidates managed to secure enough votes to win during the February 6 election. On April 3, former ...

Voters took to the polls in Costa Rica on Sunday as a same-sex marriage debate rocked the predominantly Catholic state's presidential election.

Costa Rica election: Why the left is lagging Three of the four main candidates in Sunday's presidential race tilt toward the right.

One of Costa Rica's best known political figures, Araya, 56, served as mayor of San Jose for over two decades, winning praise for spearheading public arts projects and expanding a municipal police ...

Nearly 40 percent of voters in Costa Rica supported an anti-gay evangelical for president. Maybe progressive Costa Rica is more like its troubled neighboring countries than it once seemed.