| Election Name: | 2020 San José mayoral election |
| Country: | San José, Costa Rica |
| Type: | municipal |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2016 San José mayoral election |
| Previous Year: | 2016 |
| Next Election: | 2024 San José mayoral election |
| Next Year: | 2024 |
| Election Date: | 2 February 2020 |
| Mayor | |
| Candidate1: | Johnny Araya Monge |
| Party1: | National Liberation Party (Costa Rica) |
| Popular Vote1: | 20,843 |
| Percentage1: | 37.24% |
| Candidate2: | Federico Cartín Arteaga |
| Party2: | Citizens' Action Party (Costa Rica) |
| Popular Vote2: | 8,235 |
| Percentage2: | 14.71% |
| Before Election: | Johnny Araya Monge |
| Before Party: | National Liberation Party (Costa Rica) |
| After Election: | Johnny Araya Monge |
| After Party: | National Liberation Party (Costa Rica) |
Mayoral and municipal elections were held in San Jose, Costa Rica, on 2 February 2020 and were the method by which the citizens of the canton of San José elected the mayor, deputy mayors, syndics, aldermen and district councilors of the capital municipality.
Incumbent Johnny Araya returns to his original party, National Liberation Party, after a two-year suspension from the Ethics' Tribunal due to his resignation as presindential nominee in the 2014 Costa Rican general election, reason for which Araya was candidate from the local San José Alliance party winning previous 2016 San José mayoral election, but returning to PLN soon after.[1] Other important candidates were PAC's nominee, economist and urban planner and founder of Rutas Naturbanas, Federico Cartín Arteaga and San José Alliance nominee Denise Echeverría Robert. Cartín was originally part of a coalition named Chepe which was integrated by PAC and the provincial party VAMOS, however the Electoral Court disbanded the coalition as VAMOS failed to nominate any of its members, a requeriment to be a coalition, but VAMOS kept its support of the candidacy.[2] Cartín managed to return PAC as the second most voted party in San José.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bgcolor= | Johnny Araya Monge | National Liberation Party | 20,843 | 37.24 | |
| bgcolor= | Federico Cartín Arteaga | Citizens' Action Party | 8,235 | 14.71 | |
| Denise Echeverría Robert | San José Alliance | 4,537 | 8.11 | ||
| bgcolor= | Donald Alberto Leiva Hernández | Social Christian Unity Party | 4,320 | 7,72 | |
| Diego Miranda Méndez | Together Coalition | 3,915 | 6.99 | ||
| bgcolor= | Tatiana Bonilla Cortés | New Republic Party | 3,280 | 5.86 | |
| bgcolor= | José Antonio Gutiérrez Leiva | Social Christian Republican Party | 2,393 | 4.28 | |
| bgcolor= | Douglas Quesada Altamirano | National Restoration Party | 2,346 | 4.19 | |
| bgcolor= | Fuk Choi Yan Lee | National Integration Party | 1,471 | 2.63 | |
| bgcolor=orchid | Manuel Aquiles Garro Chacon | Owr Town Party | 1,159 | 2.07 | |
| bgcolor= | Dewin Brenes Fernández | Christian Democratic Alliance | 970 | 1.73 | |
| bgcolor= | Guillermo Ramírez Garay | United We Can | 766 | 1.37 | |
| bgcolor=dodgerblue | Edgar Rodríguez Ramirez | United Communal | 742 | 1.33 | |
| bgcolor=darkblue | Roberto Rafael Mesen Vega | Anti-Corruption Party | 535 | 0.96 | |
| bgcolor=white | Alberto Courrau Quesada | Cantonal Innovation | 461 | 0.82 | |
| align=left colspan=5 | Source: TSE | ||||