1982 Costa Rican general election

1982 Costa Rican general election

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Presidential election
Turnout	78.63% ( 2.64pp)
Nominee Luis Alberto Monge Rafael Ángel Calderón Party PLN CU Popular vote 568,374 325,187 Percentage 58.80% 33.64%
Results by canton
President before election Rodrigo Carazo CU Elected President Luis Alberto Monge PLN
Legislative election
All 57 seats in the Legislative Assembly 29 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– PLN Luis Alberto Monge 55.15 33 +8 CU Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier 29.08 18 −9 PU Rodrigo Gutiérrez Sáenz [es] 6.43 4 +1 MN Mario Echandi Jiménez 3.60 1 New PADA Óscar Valverde Rodríguez 1.31 1 New This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Results by province

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General elections were held in Costa Rica on 7 February 1982.^[1] Luis Alberto Monge of the National Liberation Party won the presidential election, whilst his party also won the parliamentary election. Voter turnout was 79%.^[2]

Affected by a deep economic crisis and tensions with Somoza's Nicaragua due to Rodrigo Carazo's support of the FSLN, Carazo's government suffered from extremely low popularity. This naturally affected the Unity Coalition (Carazo's party) and its candidate Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier giving to PLN and its candidate trade union leader and farmer Luis Alberto Monge a landslide victory and the party's biggest parliamentary group in its history (33 deputies). Nevertheless, Unity remained as the second most voted party in the election as Calderón was able to attract the traditional and very loyal Calderonista vote.^[3] The crisis was also beneficial for the Left as it achieved a historical high voting and four seats in Parliament (the biggest group since 1948) with Dr. Rodrigo Gutiérrez repeating candidacy from United People. Another candidate was former president Mario Echandi by the conservative and anti-Communist National Movement, but Echandi's candidacy was testimonial receiving almost as many votes as Gutierrez (3% each), according to some due to his incapacity to understand modern times when personal wealth and family origin was not enough to win an election.^[4]

Province	Monge %	Calderón %	Echandi %	Gutiérrez %	Chacón %	Retana %
San José	58.4	32.5	5.3	3.5	0.2	0.1
Alajuela	59.5	35.5	2.8	2.0	0.2	0.2
Cartago	61.9	32.8	2.7	2.1	0.3	0.2
Heredia	57.0	36.3	2.6	3.7	0.1	0.2
Puntarenas	58.3	32.8	3.3	5.0	0.3	0.3
Limón	53.9	33.8	3.6	7.8	0.6	0.4
Guanacaste	60.7	34.6	2.4	1.8	0.2	0.2
Total	58.8	33.6	3.8	3.3	0.2	0.2

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	National Liberation Party	527,231	55.15	33	+8
	Unity Coalition	277,998	29.08	18	–9
	United People	61,465	6.43	4	+1
	National Movement [es]	34,437	3.60	1	New
	Alajuelense Democratic Action	12,486	1.31	1	New
	National Democratic Party	11,575	1.21	0	New
	Cartago Agrarian Union Party	7,235	0.76	0	–1
	Costa Rican Concord Party	5,014	0.52	0	0
	Independent Party [es]	4,671	0.49	0	0
	Authentic Limonense Party	3,893	0.41	0	0
	Peoples' Action Party	3,546	0.37	0	New
	Democratic Party	2,672	0.28	0	0
	Cartago Parliamentary Union Party	1,047	0.11	0	New
	Authentic Puntarenense Party	1,036	0.11	0	0
	Worker-Peasant Party	976	0.10	0	New
	National Liberal Progressive Republican Party	708	0.07	0	New
Total		955,990	100.00	57	0
Valid votes		955,990	96.41
Invalid votes		24,560	2.48
Blank votes		11,016	1.11
Total votes		991,566	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		1,261,127	78.63
Source: Election Resources

Province	PLN		CU		PU		MN		PND		PI		PD		Others
	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S
San José	55.1	12	28.5	6	7.2	2	4.7	1	1.5	0	0.4	0	0.3	0	2.3	0
Alajuela	55.5	6	30.1	3	3.3	0	2.4	0	0.7	0	0.4	0	0.2	0	7.4	1
Cartago	57.2	4	25.5	2	3.8	0	2.2	0	0.6	0	1.2	0	0.3	0	9.2	0
Heredia	54.0	3	32.4	2	8.3	0	3.5	0	1.1	0	0.4	0	0.2	0	-	-
Puntarenas	55.7	3	28.6	2	8.6	1	3.2	0	2.0	0	0.3	0	0.4	0	1.2	0
Limón	43.5	2	27.0	1	14.2	1	3.4	0	1.8	0	1.4	0	0.4	0	8.4	0
Guanacaste	59.4	3	32.8	2	3.9	0	3.1	0	0.6	0	-	-	0.2	-	-	-
Total	55.2	33	29.1	18	6.4	4	3.6	1	1.2	0	0.5	0	0.3	0	3.7	0