Template talk:Costa Rican elections

2010
Either this template should be updated to accommodate general elections or the Costa Rican general election, 2010 be split in two. --Mike Linksvayer (talk) 17:34, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Dates and names
Hi, regarding a question that Comrade John made on my talk page, I must mention this:

Almost all elections before 1913 were made on two dates, as they were indirect elections. All male citizens voted choosing the "electors" and months later the electors voted the president. The time between the two elections was large, generally six months. Therefore is very common for these elections to have occurred in two different years. The Spanish articles generally use the date for the second election, however probably the more accurate title will be for example 1902-1903 Costa Rican general election. These two levels also applied for Parliament thus almost all were general. Those that were not general I guess can be renamed to "presidential" election only but I don't know if the term "general" is the recommended one even in those cases (after all, even if deputies were not elected, electors were). In any case, I inform you guys about it and feel free to change the titles if needed as you wish. Thank you. --Dereck Camacho (talk) 13:44, 21 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Since you mention about me so I say some few things.


 * For me, Accuracy is the first thing than anything else.


 * Other than that, I have no other suggestion to say.


 * I think Number 57 should participate this issue since he came across those election article and template for a long time.-- Comrade John (talk) 13:54, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I agree that any election spanning two years should have the article as (e.g.) 1902–1903 Costa Rican general election.
 * Any election that included both the president/head of state and the legislature should be described as a "general election". If it was only the president and electors, it should be described as a presidential election, like the US ones are. Number   5  7  14:03, 21 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Well as I said before I have no objection on the renaming, if anyone volunteers however will be great tho. So if the change is made remember this will apply to all elections between 1825 and 1910, except for 1844. All of this election have currently the last year of the process so the change should include the previous year.
 * However on the other issue I'll have to investigate if there were cases in which parliamentary election were not held at the same time (and therefore the name would be presidential or head of state instead of general), data is not entirely clear about those matters. If any of you wishes to check the source, the one I'm using is this one: Historia de las elecciones presidenciales 1824-2006. --Dereck Camacho (talk) 14:00, 25 December 2018 (UTC)