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Leo Couto

Leonardo Sales Couto Bezerra (legal name)
3 elections between 2008 and 2024 · latest party PSB
43 years old in 2024 · Male · Higher education, complete
Empresário
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Leo Couto (Leonardo Sales Couto Bezerra) ran in 3 elections between 2008 and 2024, for city councillor, according to data from Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE). He was elected 2 times: city councillor of Fortaleza in 2024 and 2020. The highest vote was in 2020, for city councillor in Fortaleza/CE: 9,426 votes. In the 2024 campaign for city councillor in Fortaleza/CE, reported R$ 160 thousand in income, from private donations (9 donors). Contracted spending totals R$ 157 thousand, mainly on activists and street mobilization (R$ 38 thousand), vehicle lending or rental (R$ 28 thousand) and property rental (R$ 25 thousand). In previous campaigns, already closed, reported contracted spending of R$ 88 thousand in 2020 and R$ 10 thousand in 2008.

City Councillor · 2024
8,975
votes · Fortaleza, Ceará
ELECTED
Term ends in 2028
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Vote trend across elections

8,975 votes in 2024 (elected) · 3 elections

The votes of Leonardo Sales Couto Bezerra 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.

City Councillor

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

2024: R$ 160 thousand in income · R$ 157 thousand em gastos

Leo Couto reported income and spending to the TSE in 3 campaigns: city councillor in São Gonçalo do Amarante (CE) in 2008, and city councillor in Fortaleza (CE) in 2020 and 2024. The amounts are those of the time of each campaign, not adjusted for inflation. In the most recent campaign, in 2024, reported R$ 160 thousand in income, from private donations (9 donors). Contracted spending totals R$ 157 thousand, mainly on activists and street mobilization (R$ 38 thousand) and vehicle lending or rental (R$ 28 thousand). In 2020, R$ 88 thousand in spending; in 2008, 66% of the R$ 10 thousand in committed spending went to advertising with printed materials.

Income in 2024R$ 160 thousandcampaign closed
Spending in 2024R$ 157 thousandcampaign closed; all paid
Spending in 2020R$ 88 thousandcampaign closed; all paid
Campaigns32008, 2020 and 2024

Fundraising, where the money came from:

  • Electoral Fund (FEFC)
  • Other resources from the party and other campaigns
  • Donations from individuals (includes crowdfunding)
  • Own funds
2024City councillor, Fortaleza (CE)See donors and spending ›
Raised
R$ 160 thousand
9 individual donors
individuals 100%
Spending contracted
R$ 157 thousand
all paid (100%)
  • Activists and street mobilizationR$ 38 thousand24.0%
  • Vehicle lending or rentalR$ 28 thousand17.9%
  • Property rentalR$ 25 thousand15.9%
  • Printed materialsR$ 18 thousand11.7%
  • 8 other categoriesincludes R$ 1 thousand entered as "miscellaneous, to be specified"R$ 48 thousand30.6%
2020City councillor, Fortaleza (CE)See donors and spending ›
Raised
R$ 90 thousand
7 individual donors
FEFC 4% · party and other campaigns less than 1% · individuals 91% · own funds 4%
Spending contracted
R$ 88 thousand
all paid (100%)
  • Advertising with stickersR$ 34 thousand38.8%
  • Printed materialsR$ 22 thousand25.2%
  • Property rentalR$ 14 thousand15.9%
  • Accounting servicesR$ 5 thousand5.7%
  • 9 other categoriesincludes R$ 400 entered as "miscellaneous, to be specified"R$ 13 thousand14.4%
2008City councillor, São Gonçalo do Amarante (CE)See donors and spending ›
Raised
R$ 10 thousand
donations from individuals
individuals 99% · own funds less than 1%
Spending contracted
R$ 10 thousand
the TSE does not publish the amount paid for this year
  • Printed materialsR$ 7 thousand65.7%
  • Production of jingles, vignettes and slogansR$ 2 thousand19.8%
  • Publicidade por placas, estandartes e faixasR$ 1 thousand9.9%
  • Third-party servicesR$ 3743.7%
  • 1 other categoryR$ 860.9%

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. 2024: TSE data of 14/09/2026; 2020: TSE data of 12/09/2026. 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 2020 and 2024

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.

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.