2026 Costa Rican general election

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General elections were held in Costa Rica on 1 February 2026 to elect the president, two vice-presidents, and all 57 deputies of the Legislative Assembly. Laura Fernández, the candidate of the Sovereign People's Party (PPSO), won the presidential election with 48.53% of the votes, defeating Álvaro Ramos Chaves of the National Liberation Party (PLN) and 18 other candidates in the first round. This exceeded the threshold of 40% required to win the election in a single round. She is the second woman to be elected president of Costa Rica. The PPSO also won a majority of the seats in the Legislative Assembly (the first time since 1990 that a single party had done so): 31, against the PLN's 17. The Broad Front (FA) won seven, with the two remaining seats going to the Citizen Agenda Coalition (CAC) and the Social Christian Unity Party (PUSC), the latter of which obtained its worst electoral result since its foundation in 1983.

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