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Costa Rica: election results by polling station

2018–2022 · 2 elections · CRI

SAGE has legislative and presidential election results for Costa Rica from 2 elections between 2018 and 2022: 2018 and 2022. The smallest unit is the polling station. The 2022 election has 2,152 polling stations, and 98% of them have a location. Unit boundaries are available for every election.

Elections

Units are the smallest units in the data, and located units are those with coordinates. A year with several rows has several contests or votes; filter on them before you add up votes.

YearElection typeVote typeRound Units% locatedVotes Polygons
2018Legislative (unicameral)2,086100%2,137,556yes[map]
PresidentialFirst Round12,086100%2,150,306yes
PresidentialSecond Round22,086100%2,178,520yes
2022Legislative (unicameral)2,100100%2,075,872yes[map]
PresidentialFirst Round12,15298%2,094,816yes
PresidentialSecond Round22,100100%1,954,718yes

Download

csv opens in Excel, Stata, R, or Python. gpkg has the unit boundaries for QGIS, ArcGIS, R, or Python. parquet has the vote rows as Parquet. rds is the native R sf object. Each ZIP has a README with the columns.

All years: [csv 2.1 MB] [gpkg 995 KB] [parquet 1.9 MB] [rds 4.1 MB] [codebook 311 KB]

YearDownloads
2022[csv 1.2 MB] [gpkg 507 KB] [parquet 594 KB]
2018[csv 916 KB] [gpkg 505 KB] [parquet 502 KB]

In R or Python:

R:      install.packages("sage")
        sage::sage_load("Costa Rica", years = 2022)

Python: import sage
        sage.sage_load("Costa Rica", years=[2022])

Sources

Citation

Dasanaike, Noah. “The Small-Area Global Elections (SAGE) Dataset.” Scientific Data (2026). Paper · Harvard Dataverse

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