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Mário Motta

Mario Pinto da Motta Junior (legal name)
2 elections between 2022 and 2026 · PSD
74 years old in 2026 · Male · Higher education, complete
Locutor e Comentarista de Rádio e Televisão e Radialista
Candidate for State Deputy · Santa Catarina · 2026 elections · PSD · no. 55555
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Mário Motta (PSD) was elected state deputy for Santa Catarina in 2026, with 34,977 votes, according to the final results from Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE). Mário Motta (Mario Pinto da Motta Junior) ran in 2 elections between 2022 and 2026, for state deputy. He was elected 2 times: state deputy in 2026 and 2022. The highest vote was in 2022, for state deputy for SC: 56,363 votes. In the 2026 campaign for state deputy for SC, reported R$ 574 thousand in income: R$ 250 thousand from the Electoral Fund (FEFC), R$ 48 thousand de outros recursos do partido e de outras campanhas, R$ 196 thousand from private donations (32 donors and an online crowdfunding campaign) and R$ 80 thousand from own funds. Contracted spending totals R$ 523 thousand, mainly on third-party services (R$ 199 thousand), content boosting (R$ 126 thousand) and activists and street mobilization (R$ 113 thousand). Partial amounts, according to the TSE data of 14/10/2026: the campaign finance report for this election is still in progress. In the 2022 campaign, already closed, spent R$ 79 thousand.

State Deputy · 2026
34,977
votes · SC
ELECTED
Term ends in 2030
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Vote trend across elections

34,977 votes in 2026 (elected) · 2 elections

The votes of Mario Pinto da Motta Junior 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.

State Dep.

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$ 574 thousand in income · R$ 523 thousand em gastos contratados

Mário Motta reported income and spending to the TSE in 2 campaigns: state deputy for Santa Catarina in 2022 and 2026. The amounts are those of the time of each campaign, not adjusted for inflation. In the most recent campaign, in 2026, reported R$ 574 thousand in income: R$ 250 thousand from the Electoral Fund (FEFC), R$ 48 thousand de outros recursos do partido e de outras campanhas, R$ 196 thousand from private donations (32 donors and an online crowdfunding campaign) and R$ 80 thousand from own funds. Contracted spending totals R$ 523 thousand, mainly on third-party services (R$ 199 thousand) and content boosting (R$ 126 thousand); R$ 362 thousand has already been paid. In 2022, R$ 79 thousand in spending. 2026 amounts are partial, according to the TSE data of 14/10/2026.

Income in 2026R$ 574 thousandpartial, until 14/10/2026
Spending in 2026R$ 523 thousandcontracted, partial; R$ 362 thousand paid
Spending in 2022R$ 79 thousandcampaign closed; all paid
Campaigns22022 and 2026

Fundraising, where the money came from:

  • Electoral Fund (FEFC)
  • Other resources from the party and other campaigns
  • Donations from individuals (includes crowdfunding)
  • Own funds
2026partialState deputy, Santa CatarinaSee donors and spending ›
Raised
R$ 574 thousand
32 individual donors and an online crowdfunding campaign
FEFC 44% · party and other campaigns 8% · individuals 34% · own funds 14%
Spending contracted
R$ 523 thousand
paid so far: R$ 362 thousand (69%)
  • Third-party servicesR$ 199 thousand38.1%
  • Content boostingR$ 126 thousand24.1%
  • Activists and street mobilizationR$ 113 thousand21.5%
  • Printed materialsR$ 34 thousand6.5%
  • 11 other categoriesR$ 51 thousand9.8%
2022State deputy, Santa CatarinaSee donors and spending ›
Raised
R$ 79 thousand
6 individual donors and an online crowdfunding campaign
individuals 93% · own funds 7%
Spending contracted
R$ 79 thousand
all paid (100%)
  • Content boostingR$ 29 thousand37.2%
  • Printed materialsR$ 22 thousand27.6%
  • Activists and street mobilizationR$ 9 thousand11.2%
  • Property rentalR$ 5 thousand6.7%
  • 9 other categoriesR$ 14 thousand17.2%

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; 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

2 candidacies · elected in 2022 and 2026

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

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.

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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.