Sérgio Frota (Sérgio Barbosa Frota) ran in 4 elections between 2012 and 2022, for federal deputy, state deputy and city councillor, according to data from Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE). He was elected 2 times: state deputy in 2014; city councillor of São Luís in 2012. The highest vote was in 2014, for state deputy for MA: 30,525 votes. In the 2022 campaign for federal deputy for MA, reported R$ 561 thousand in income: R$ 500 thousand from the Electoral Fund (FEFC) and R$ 61 thousand from private donations (5 donors). Contracted spending totals R$ 500 thousand, mainly on legal services (R$ 131 thousand), activists and street mobilization (R$ 100 thousand) and vehicle lending or rental (R$ 97 thousand). In previous campaigns, already closed, reported contracted spending of R$ 463 thousand in 2018 (73% on third-party services) and R$ 423 thousand in 2014.
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Vote trend across elections
8,930 votes in 2022 · 4 elections
The votes of Sérgio Barbosa Frota in each election they ran in, from oldest to most recent. All on the same scale (the highest vote recorded); the color shows the office.
The longest bar (the one that goes all the way) is the highest vote recorded for any office, elected or not; it works as a ruler, and all the other bars are proportional to it (the longer the bar, the more votes). What shows whether the person was elected is the fill, not the length: filled (colored) bar = elected; only the dashed outline = not elected; "to the runoff" = went to the runoff. "Annulled votes" = votes cast in the voting machines that, according to the TSE data, do not count among the valid votes (the registration status is in the list below). From oldest (top) to newest. Click a bar to see the result of that election. The campaign finance report of each candidacy is in the list below.
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Campaign funding
2022: R$ 561 thousand in income · R$ 500 thousand em gastos
Sérgio Frota reported income and spending to the TSE in 4 campaigns: city councillor in São Luís (MA) in 2012, state deputy for Maranhão in 2014 and 2018, and federal deputy for Maranhão in 2022. The amounts are those of the time of each campaign, not adjusted for inflation. In the most recent campaign, in 2022, reported R$ 561 thousand in income: R$ 500 thousand from the Electoral Fund (FEFC) and R$ 61 thousand from private donations (5 donors). Contracted spending totals R$ 500 thousand, mainly on legal services (R$ 131 thousand) and activists and street mobilization (R$ 100 thousand). In 2018, 73% of the R$ 463 thousand in spending went to third-party services; in 2014, 49% of the R$ 423 thousand in committed spending went to advertising with printed materials.
Income in 2022R$ 561 thousandcampaign closed
Spending in 2022R$ 500 thousandcampaign closed; all paid
Spending in 2018R$ 463 thousandcampaign closed; all paid
Campaigns42012, 2014, 2018 and 2022
Fundraising, where the money came from:
Electoral Fund (FEFC)
Other resources from the party and other campaigns
Donations from individuals (includes crowdfunding)
the TSE does not publish the amount paid for this year
Printed materialsR$ 118 thousand69.4%
Fuel and lubricantsR$ 29 thousand17.0%
Publicidade por placas, estandartes e faixasR$ 8 thousand4.5%
FoodR$ 5 thousand3.2%
4 other categoriesincludes R$ 5 thousand entered as "miscellaneous, to be specified"R$ 10 thousand5.9%
Source: campaign finance reports filed with the TSE (open data). Radar do Voto has these data from 2006 on in general elections and from 2008 on in municipal elections; earlier campaigns do not appear. 2022: TSE data of 13/09/2026; 2018: TSE data of 13/09/2026. Contracted spending is the total of the expenses the campaign reported; paid is the part already settled (the TSE only publishes the paid amount from 2018 on). The spending categories are the TSE's; the detail by supplier is in the dashboard. Corporate donations have been prohibited since 2015.
This person's history at the polls, from the most recent candidacy to the oldest.
Federal Deputy · 2022ALTERNATE8,930GMA · 61 years · White · Higher education, complete · Empresário · PODE · no. 1945 · see full resultcampaign finance report
State Deputy · 2018ANNULLED VOTESINDEFERIDO COM RECURSO23,331GMA · 57 years · White · Higher education, complete · Deputado · PR · no. 22456 · votes outside the valid votes, according to the TSE data · see full result
Coligação: PDT / PC do B / PSB / PRB / PR / DEM / PP / PTC / AVANTE
G é Eleição Geral: presidente, governador, senador e deputados. L é Eleição Local (municipal): prefeito e vereador. De 1933 a 1990 o TSE não publica cargo municipal, então esses anos são todos G.
A candidacy without votes is a registration that did not reach the ballot: according to the TSE data, a registration not approved, a withdrawal, or a running mate, who does not receive individual votes.
The race or color is the one the person declared to the TSE in the registration of each candidacy. The Court started collecting this information in 2014; that is why it does not appear in earlier candidacies.