Few cantons will enforce Costa Rica’s dry law during the municipal elections L. Arias - February 5, 2016 Of a total of 81 cantons in Costa Rica, only six will enforce a ban on alcohol sales during ...

Observers hope reforms to municipal Costa Rica elections will help reverse the country's anemic turnout record at the polls on Feb. 7. Tico Times COSTA RICA\'S LEADING ENGLISH LANGUAGE ... (75 percent ...

While turnout for the municipal elections, much like here at home, was relatively low, 31%, when compared to the national elections Costa Rica held in 2022, it is important to reflect on the ...

Bob Glass says that only 23.7% of the eligible voters participated in Costa Rica's Sunday municipal elections. Election results here. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest ...

Costa Ricans are voting in national elections Sunday, with polls indicating the country may elect its first female president. Laura Chinchilla is the frontrunner among seven candidates. She served ...

According to the election observers from the Organisation of American States (OAS), the election took place without incident. There were 6,212 local politicians up for election. Costa Rica is divided ...

The presidential hopeful of Costa Rica's ruling party is seen as the frontrunner in Sunday's election, but analysts say campaign gaffes and scandals dogging President Laura Chinchilla's government ...

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 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.

Otto Guevara, candidate for the Chamber of Deputees for the Liberal Union Party campaigns for votes at a market in San Jose, Costa Rica, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022. Costa Ricans head into national ...

Yet until the 2018 elections, in which the National Restoration Party took 25 percent of the legislature, evangelical parties had never received more than 8 percent of the vote in Costa Rica.

(Reuters) - The presidential hopeful of Costa Rica's ruling party is seen as the frontrunner in Sunday's election, but analysts say campaign gaffes and scandals dogging President Laura Chinchilla ...