2018 Costa Rican general election

4 February 2018 (first round) 1 April 2018 (2018-04-01) (second round)
Presidential election
Registered	3,322,329
Turnout	65.70% (first round) 2.78pp 66.45% (second round) 9.95pp
Nominee Carlos Alvarado Fabricio Alvarado Party PAC PREN Running mate Epsy Campbell Marvin Rodríguez Ivonne Acuña Francisco J. Prendas Popular vote 1,322,908 860,388 Percentage 60.59% 39.41%
First round results by district Second round results by district Alvarado-Quesada:      20-30%      30-40%      40-50%      50-60%      60-70%      70-80%      80-90%      90-100% Alvarado-Muñoz:      20-30%      30-40%      40-50%      50-60%      60-70%      70-80%      80-90% Álvarez:      20-30%      30-40%      40-50% Piza:      20-30%      30-40%      40-50% Castro:      20-30% Hernández:      20-30%
President before election Luis Guillermo Solís PAC Elected President Carlos Alvarado Quesada PAC
Legislative election
All 57 seats in the Legislative Assembly 29 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	65.56% ( 2.82pp)
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– PLN Antonio Álvarez Desanti 19.49 17 -1 PREN Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz 18.16 14 +13 PAC Carlos Alvarado Quesada 16.27 10 -3 PUSC Rodolfo Piza Rocafort 14.60 9 +1 PIN Juan Diego Castro Fernández 7.67 4 +4 PRSC Rodolfo Hernández Gómez 4.21 2 New FA Edgardo Araya Sibaja 3.95 1 -8 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Results by province

General elections were held in Costa Rica in 2018 to elect both the President and Legislative Assembly. The first round of the presidential election was held on 4 February 2018, with the two highest-ranked candidates being Christian singer and Congressman Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz from the conservative National Restoration Party and writer and former Minister Carlos Alvarado Quesada from the progressive Citizens' Action Party. They each won 24% and 21% of the votes respectively.

A second round run-off election was held on 1 April 2018 and was won by Carlos Alvarado Quesada, with a landslide victory of 60.6% of the vote.^[1][2]