 Lead by Fabricio Alvarado under the National Restoration banner, for the first time an Evangelical Christian party was one of the main voted ones in Costa Rica and went into the run-off against ruling PAC, reaching up to 800.000 votes despite losing the election.Alvarado quit National Restoration and founded New Republic party soon after but its results in the election were testimonial.66 incumbent mayors tried to get reelected, of which 24 are National Liberation Party members, among them the current mayor of San José since 1998 and former presidential candidate Johnny Araya Monge.