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Elections 2014

Live Costa Rica presidential election results

The Tico Times published live election results in the runoff between Citizen Action Party (PAC) candidate Luis Guillermo Solís and National Liberation Party (PLN) candidate Johnny Araya as they arrived from the Supreme Elections Tribunal. The results began coming in at 8 p.m. Sunday night.

Photos: In Costa Rica, kids learn at a young age the importance of voting

HEREDIA CENTRO – Kids of all ages joined the electoral party this Sunday to cast their symbolic votes for president in national children’s elections.

Costa Ricans from around the world share photos of themselves voting

Ignacio Solís, son of Costa Rica's presumed next president, Luis Guillermo Solís, shared a snapshot of himself right after voting for his "old man" in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. And just like in the first round of elections in February, James Alvarado became the first Tico to vote after casting his ballot in Sydney, Australia.

Video: Opposition candidate Luis Guillermo Solís casts his ballot, encourages Ticos to vote

Though his main opponent stopped campaigning in March, Citizen Action Party presidential candidate Luis Guillermo Solís still needs to capture more than 50 percent of the votes in Sunday's runoff election to become Costa Rica's next president.

Beached: Slow voting in Guanacaste’s Playas del Coco

By mid-afternoon, 492 people had come to the polling station to cast their vote in the runoff election. “Usually it’s more animated,” said Ruth Garcia Jaen, a volunteer for the PAC campaign. “It’s too relaxed today.”

President Laura Chinchilla expresses dismay with low voter turnout in presidential runoff

Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla cast her vote in Sunday's presidential runoff at 10:45 a.m. at the Joaquín García Monge elementary school in Desamparados, a canton south of the capital.

1 million votes or not, Luis Guillermo Solís urges supporters to get out and vote

Swarmed by cameras, reporters and supporters, presidential frontrunner Luis Guillermo Solís of the opposition Citizen Action Party arrived at the Liceo de Curridabat, east of the capital, Sunday morning to cast his vote for Costa Rica's next president.

No regrets about quitting campaign, says Costa Rica’s ruling party candidate Johnny Araya

The National Liberation Party’s (PLN) "non-candidate," Johnny Araya, left his home in Rohrmoser, a wealthy neighborhood west of San José, at 9:30 a.m. Sunday to begin Costa Rica's second-round Election Day.

National Liberation Party inundates social media networks with calls to get out the vote

Although their candidate announced he was quitting the race back in March, members of the ruling National Liberation Party have blasted social media networks with get-out-the-vote messages for today’s presidential runoff.

Costa Rican centrist set for win with no rival

Historian and former diplomat Luis Guillermo Solís is set to cruise to victory Sunday in Costa Rica's presidential runoff election after his sole opponent dropped out of the race.
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