Laura Fernández wins Costa Rica's presidency with 48 percent

Costa Ricans voted to elect a president and all 57 members of the Legislative Assembly. From a field of 20 candidates, Laura Fernández of the Sovereign People's Party, known as PPSO, won the presidency. She took 48 percent of the vote. The election was the 2026 Costa Rican general election.

A general election, in this case, filled both the presidency and the entire 57-seat legislature on the same day. Twenty candidates contested the presidency. The reported result named Fernández as the winner and gave her share of the vote as 48 percent. It did not list the runners-up or their percentages.

The Sovereign People's Party is the political party under whose banner Fernández ran. The account did not describe the party's platform or say whether it would hold a majority in the Legislative Assembly. No seat totals for any party were included. The certified fact was the presidential result, not the congressional arithmetic.

Winning with 48 percent means she was reported as the victor without the figure reaching a majority of all votes cast. The report did not say whether Costa Rican law requires a runoff above a certain threshold or whether 48 percent was enough on its own. It stated the win and the percentage together. Nothing in the account suggested the result was still in doubt.

Legislative elections for all 57 seats ran alongside the presidential vote. Because no seat counts were published in the summary of the result, the shape of the new assembly was not part of the day's reported outcome. Voters chose both branches, but only the presidency was given a named winner and a vote share. The field of 20 presidential candidates set the scale of that contest.

Laura Fernández of the Sovereign People's Party won the Costa Rican presidency with 48 percent of the vote. The ballot also chose every member of the 57-seat Legislative Assembly. Twenty candidates had stood for president. The reported presidential outcome was her victory at that share of the vote.