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Costa Rica held parliamentary and presidential elections on February 7, 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.^[1]

The election was supervised by observers from several countries, as well as from the Organization of American States.^[2] The incumbent President, Óscar Arias, was ineligible to run for a second consecutive term.

[edit] Presidential candidates

Candidates included:

• Laura Chinchilla Miranda (ruling National Liberation Party, vice-president 2006-08)
• Ottón Solís (oppositional Citizens' Action Party, candidate in 2006)
• Otto Guevara (Movimiento Libertario, candidate in 2006)
• Luis Fishman (conservative Social Christian Unity Party, vice-president under Abel Pacheco)

[edit] Opinion polling

CID-Gallup 24 January 2010: Chinchilla 43 %; Guevara 30 %; Solís 15 %; Fishman 8 %

Borge & Asociados for Diario Extra opinion poll January 2010: Chinchilla 38.7 %; Guevara 18.3 %; Solís 9.6 %; Fishman 3.7 %

Demoscopía for Al Día January 2010: Chinchilla 45.1 %; Guevara 30.1 %; Solís 9.5 %; Fishman 3.8 %^[3]

December 2009: Chinchilla 36.7 %; Guevara 16.2 %; Solís 8.5 %; Fishman 2.2 %

December 2009: Chinchilla 46.6 %; Guevara 19.5 %; Solís 8.3 %; Fishman 4.1 %

October 2009: Chinchilla 53.0 %; Guevara 15.7 %; Solís 12.3 %; Fishman 1.5 %

[edit] President election results

At 9:08 p.m. local time on election day, February 7, second-placed candidate Otton Solis conceded defeat to Laura Chinchilla, who will become Costa Rica's first female president. With approximately 40% of the vote counted, Chinchilla was consistently surpassing the 40% threshold for victory in the first round, leading Solis by 47% to 24%, with third-placed candidate Otto Guevara trailing at 21.5%^[4].

Note: Partial results with 94.182% of precincts processed (6,232 out of 6,617).^[5]

^  Candidacy withdrawn on January 15, 2010 in favor of Solís.

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