2022 Costa Rican general election

6 February 2022 (2022-02-06) (first round) 3 April 2022 (2022-04-03) (second round)
Opinion polls
Presidential election
Registered	3,541,910
Turnout	59.97% (first round) 5.73pp 56.79% (second round) 9.66pp
Nominee Rodrigo Chaves José María Figueres Party PPSD PLN Running mate Stephan Brunner Mary Munive Álvaro Ramírez Laura Arguedas Popular vote 1,035,388 924,699 Percentage 52.82% 47.18%
First round results by district Second round results by district Chaves:      20-30%      30-40%      40-50%      50-60%      60-70%      70-80% Figueres:      20-30%      30-40%      40-50%      50-60%      60-70%      70-80% Alvarado:      20-30%      30-40%      40-50% Feinzaig:      30-40% Saborío:      20-30%      30-40%      40-50% Tie:      30-40%      50%
President before election Carlos Alvarado Quesada PAC Elected President Rodrigo Chaves Robles PPSD
Legislative election
All 57 seats in the Legislative Assembly 29 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	60.65% ( 4.91pp)
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– PLN José María Figueres 24.82 19 +2 PPSD Rodrigo Chaves Robles 15.04 10 New PUSC Lineth Saborío Chaverri 11.41 9 0 PNR Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz 10.07 7 +7 Progressive Liberal Party (Costa Rica) Eliécer Feinzaig Mintz 9.06 6 +6 FA José María Villalta 8.33 6 +5 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Results by province

General elections were held in Costa Rica on 6 February 2022, to elect the president, two vice-presidents, and all 57 deputies of the Legislative Assembly. Since none of the presidential nominees obtained at least 40% of the votes, a runoff was held on 3 April 2022, between the top two candidates, José María Figueres and Rodrigo Chaves Robles.^[1]

Rodrigo Chaves Robles of the Social Democratic Progress Party, won 53% of the vote in the run-off ballot and was named president-elect by the Electoral Tribunal. Rival candidate and former president José Maria Figueres of the National Liberation Party received 47% of the vote and accepted that he lost the election.