2026 Costa Rican general election

General elections were held in Costa Rica on 1 February 2026. Voters went to elect a new president for a four-year term and all 57 members of the Legislative Assembly.

Laura Fernández Delgado, the candidate of the ruling Sovereign People's Party (PPSO), won the presidential election with 48.30% of the votes, beating Álvaro Ramos Chaves of the National Liberation Party (PLN) and 18 other candidates in the first round.

No runoff needed since Fernández won more than 40% of the vote. She is the second woman to be elected president of Costa Rica.

## Opinion polling

|rowspan="4"|Pollster|rowspan="4"|Date|rowspan="4"|Sample||||||rowspan="4"|Other|rowspan="4"|DK/DA|rowspan="4"|Neither|
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|IDESPO|22 January 2026|805|1.7%|5.2%|bgcolor="#95cdd2"|**39.9%**|6.0%|3.5%|4.2%|38.8%|0.7%||||||
|OPOL|21 January 2026|3075|3.5%|3.6%|bgcolor="#95cdd2"|**43.2%**|6.6%|2.6%|10.4%|29.8%|0.3%||||||
|CIEP|21 January 2026|1006|4.0%|5.0%|bgcolor="#95cdd2"|**40.0%**|8.0%|4.0%|6.7%|32.0%|0.3%||||||
|OPOL|14 January 2026|3070|4.2%|3.1%|bgcolor="#95cdd2"|**42.5%**|6.2%|3.0%|9.2%|29.0%|2.8%||||||
|OPOL|7 January 2026|3008|3.3%|2.7%|bgcolor="#95cdd2"|**40.3%**|6.0%|3.1%|9.6%|34.5%|0.5%||||||
|CID Gallup|6 January 2026|1200|5.9%|3.6%|bgcolor="#95cdd2"|**40.7%**|9.0%|4.3%|11.1%|11.0%|14.4%||||||
|OPOL|23 December 2025|3241|3.0%|2.6%|bgcolor="#95cdd2"|**39.4%**|5.6%|3.1%|9.6%|33.8%|2.9%||||||
|Demoscopía|15 December 2025|1200|3.5%|3.1%|bgcolor="#95cdd2"|**27.4%**|11.3%|4.8%|8.2%|41.7%|align="center"|-|||||
|OPOL|10 December 2025|2965|3.8%|2.4%|bgcolor="#95cdd2"|**38.0%**|6.1%|3.6%|11.2%|32.7%|2.2%||||||
|Idespo|8 December 2025|805|1.5%|5.2%|bgcolor="#95cdd2"|**32.8%**|6.6%|3.7%|2.9%|45.5%|1.8%||||||
|CIEP|3 December 2025|1759|1.0%|4.0%|bgcolor="#95cdd2"|**30.0%**|8.0%|5.0%|4.4%|45.0%|2.6%||||||
|OPOL|26 November 2025|3040|3.7%|2.8%|bgcolor="#95cdd2"|**37.7%**|6.9%|3.4%|10.5%|34.1%|0.9%||||||
|Demoscopía|17 November 2025|1200|5.0%|3.0%|bgcolor="#95cdd2"|**21.4%**|9.0%|4.0%|10.5%|19.4%|27.7%||||||
|OPOL|12 November 2025|3072|4.0%|1.3%|bgcolor="#95cdd2"|**37.8%**|7.2%|2.4%|8.4%|37.9%|1.0%||||||
|IDESPO|6 November 2025|832|0.6%|2.3%|bgcolor="#95cdd2"|**28.1%**|6.2%|2.9%|3.9%|54.0%|2.0%||||||
|OPOL|29 October 2025|2951|4.8%|2.9%|bgcolor="#95cdd2"|**31.2%**|7.4%|3.7%|9.2%|39.0%|1.8%||||||
|CIEP|22 October 2025|1333|0.6%|3.0%|bgcolor="#95cdd2"|**25.0%**|7.0%|3.0%|3.9%|55.0%|2.5%||||||

## Infobox (legislative election)

- **embed**: yes
- **election name**: Legislative election
- **seats for election**: All 57 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica, Legislative Assembly
- **majority seats**: 29
- **turnout**: 72.11%  11.46percentage point, pp
- **party1**: Sovereign People's Party (Costa Rica)
- **color1**: #019ba3
- **leader1**: Laura Fernández Delgado
- **seats1**: 31
- **percentage1**: 39.10
- **last election1**: 0
- **party2**: National Liberation Party (Costa Rica)
- **leader2**: Álvaro Ramos Chaves
- **seats2**: 17
- **percentage2**: 25.30
- **last election2**: 19
- **party3**: Broad Front (Costa Rica)
- **leader3**: Ariel Robles
- **seats3**: 7
- **percentage3**: 15.73
- **last election3**: 6
- **party4**: Citizens' Action Party (Costa Rica), PAC–National Democratic Agenda, ADN
- **leader4**: Claudia Dobles Camargo, Claudia Dobles
- **seats4**: 1
- **percentage4**: 5.00
- **last election4**: 0
- **party5**: Social Christian Unity Party
- **leader5**: Juan Carlos Hidalgo
- **seats5**: 1
- **percentage5**: 4.77
- **last election5**: 9
- **map**: File:Elecciones legislativas de Costa Rica de 2026 - Diputados por Provincia.svg
- **map caption**: Results by province


## Infobox (election)

- **embed**: yes
- **election name**: Presidential election
- **type**: presidential
- **turnout**: 69.08%  9.11percentage point, pp
- **reporting**: 96.87
- **last update**: 12:20
- **time zone**: CST
- **image1**:
- **nominee1**: **Laura Fernández Delgado**
- **party1**: Sovereign People's Party (Costa Rica), PPSO
- **color1**: 019ba3
- **running mate1**: **Francisco Gamboa (politician), Francisco Gamboa
Douglas Soto**
- **popular vote1**: **1,191,727**
- **percentage1**: **48.30%**
- **image2**:
- **nominee2**: Álvaro Ramos Chaves
- **party2**: National Liberation Party (Costa Rica)
- **running mate2**: Karen Segura
Xinia Chaves
- **popular vote2**: 825,041
- **percentage2**: 33.44%
- **title**: President of Costa Rica, President
- **before election**: Rodrigo Chaves
- **before party**: Social Democratic Progress Party
- **after election**: Laura Fernández Delgado
- **after party**: Sovereign People's Party (Costa Rica), PPSO


## Infobox (election)

- **country**: Costa Rica
- **flag year**: state
- **type**: general
- **previous election**: 2022 Costa Rican general election
- **previous year**: 2022
- **election date**: 1 February 2026
- **next election**: 2030 Costa Rican general election
- **next year**: _2030_