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Samanda de Lula

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Samanda de Lula
Samanda Alves de Freitas (legal name)
3 elections between 2022 and 2026 · PT
46 years old in 2026 · Female · Higher education, complete
Vereador
Candidate for Senator · Rio Grande do Norte · 2026 elections · PT · no. 131
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Samanda de Lula (PT) was elected senator for Rio Grande do Norte in 2026, with 635,924 votes, according to the final results from Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE). Samanda de Lula (Samanda Alves de Freitas) ran in 3 elections between 2022 and 2026, for senator, city councillor and federal deputy. She was elected 2 times: senator in 2026; city councillor of Natal in 2024. The highest vote was in 2026, for senator for RN: 635,924 votes. In the 2026 campaign for senator for RN, reported R$ 3.5 million in income: R$ 3.4 million from the Electoral Fund (FEFC), R$ 17 thousand from the Party Fund and R$ 52 thousand from own funds. Contracted spending totals R$ 3.8 million, mainly on third-party services (R$ 2 million), content boosting (R$ 440 thousand) and advertising with printed materials (R$ 427 thousand). Partial amounts, according to the TSE data of 14/10/2026: the campaign finance report for this election is still in progress. In previous campaigns, already closed, spent R$ 209 thousand in 2024 and R$ 792 thousand in 2022.

Senator · 2026
635,924
votes · RN
ELECTED
Term ends in 2034
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Vote trend across elections

635,924 votes in 2026 (elected) · 3 elections

The votes of Samanda Alves de Freitas 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.

Federal Dep.City CouncillorSenator

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. 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.

Campaign funding

2026 (partial): R$ 3.5 million in income · R$ 3.8 million em gastos contratados

Samanda de Lula reported income and spending to the TSE in 3 campaigns: federal deputy for Rio Grande do Norte in 2022, city councillor in Natal (RN) in 2024, and senator for Rio Grande do Norte in 2026. The amounts are those of the time of each campaign, not adjusted for inflation. In the most recent campaign, in 2026, reported R$ 3.5 million in income: R$ 3.4 million from the Electoral Fund (FEFC), R$ 17 thousand from the Party Fund and R$ 52 thousand from own funds. Contracted spending totals R$ 3.8 million, mainly on third-party services (R$ 2 million) and content boosting (R$ 440 thousand); R$ 3.1 million has already been paid. In 2024, R$ 209 thousand in spending; in 2022, R$ 792 thousand in spending. 2026 amounts are partial, according to the TSE data of 14/10/2026.

Income in 2026R$ 3.5 millionpartial, until 14/10/2026
Spending in 2026R$ 3.8 millioncontracted, partial; R$ 3.1 million paid
Spending in 2024R$ 209 thousandcampaign closed; all paid
Campaigns32022, 2024 and 2026

Fundraising, where the money came from:

  • Electoral Fund (FEFC)
  • Party Fund
  • Donations from individuals (includes crowdfunding)
  • Own funds
2026partialSenator, Rio Grande do NorteSee donors and spending ›
Raised
R$ 3.5 million
no donations from individuals
FEFC 98% · Party Fund less than 1% · own funds 1%
Spending contracted
R$ 3.8 million
paid so far: R$ 3.1 million (81%)
  • Third-party servicesR$ 2 million53.4%
  • Content boostingR$ 440 thousand11.6%
  • Printed materialsR$ 427 thousand11.3%
  • Election polls or testsR$ 320 thousand8.4%
  • 11 other categoriesR$ 579 thousand15.3%
2024City councillor, Natal (RN)See donors and spending ›
Raised
R$ 214 thousand
donations from individuals and an online crowdfunding campaign
FEFC 93% · individuals 3% · own funds 4%
Spending contracted
R$ 209 thousand
all paid (100%)
  • Printed materialsR$ 42 thousand20.0%
  • Advertising with stickersR$ 37 thousand17.9%
  • Third-party servicesR$ 33 thousand15.6%
  • Vehicle lending or rentalR$ 22 thousand10.3%
  • 11 other categoriesR$ 76 thousand36.2%
2022Federal deputy, Rio Grande do NorteSee donors and spending ›
Raised
R$ 793 thousand
donations from individuals and an online crowdfunding campaign
FEFC 95% · individuals 4% · own funds 1%
Spending contracted
R$ 792 thousand
all paid (100%)
  • Printed materialsR$ 178 thousand22.4%
  • StaffR$ 112 thousand14.1%
  • Vehicle lending or rentalR$ 84 thousand10.6%
  • Production of radio, television or video programsR$ 49 thousand6.2%
  • 15 other categoriesincludes R$ 155 thousand entered as "miscellaneous, to be specified"R$ 370 thousand46.7%

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. 2026: partial amounts, according to the TSE data of 14/10/2026; 2024: TSE data of 14/09/2026; 2022: 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.

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Candidacies

3 candidacies · elected in 2024 and 2026

This person's history at the polls, from the most recent candidacy to the oldest.

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