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Map on the left shows the seats won by each party by province. The map on the right shows which party won the plurality in each province in the Presidential election.
Costa Rica held parliamentary and presidential elections on 7 February 2010. The ruling party before the election, the center-left National Liberation Party, put forward former Vice-PresidentLaura 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.[2]
The election was supervised by observers from several countries, as well as from the Organization of American States.[3] The incumbent President, Óscar Arias, was ineligible to run for a second consecutive term.
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[4] received 46%[8] of the votes and PLN’s legislative ballot only 37%.[1] Similarly PAC’s candidate Ottón Solís with 25%[8] presidential against 17% legislative[1] and Otto Guevara with 20%[8] oppose to 14% legislative.[1] Contrary to PUSC whose candidate Luis Fishman received 3%[8] electoral support while his party received 8%. [1]
This was PAC’s worst electoral result in its history having the smallest faction in the Parliament[5] and ML’s best result with to this date its biggest.[5] 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[5] and two Christian parties[9] for the first time had deputies at the same time; Costa Rican Renewal Party and its provincial offshoot National Restoration.[5]
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 %[10]
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%.[11]
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