All 57 seats in the Legislative Assembly 29 seats needed for a majority
Party
Leader
%
Seats
+/–
PLN
Laura Chinchilla Miranda
37.27
24
−1
PAC
Ottón Solís Fallas
17.61
11
−6
PML
Otto Guevara Guth
14.50
9
+3
PASE
Óscar Andrés López Arias
9.05
4
+3
PUSC
Luis Fishman Zonzinski
8.16
6
+1
PRC
Mayra González León
3.85
1
+1
FA
Eugenio Trejos Benavides
3.63
1
0
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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General elections were held in Costa Rica on 7 February 2010. The ruling party before the election, the center-left National Liberation Party, put forward former Vice-President Laura 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. This was the last time as of 2019, that the National Liberation Party has gotten more than 30% of the vote, the last time to this date that they have won the presidency, and the last time it has won any province in what is known as the Central Valley (the four provinces in the interior of the country: San José, Alajuela, Heredia and Cartago).
^"7 February 2010 Legislative Assembly Election Results - Costa Rica Totals". Election Resources. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
^"(in Spanish)". Archived from the original on 11 February 2010. Retrieved 8 February 2010.
^Jara, Francisco (6 February 2010). "AFP: First female poised for Costa Rica presidency". Retrieved 21 August 2010.
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