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Roberto Costa (José Roberto Costa Santos) ran in 9 elections between 2000 and 2024, for mayor, state deputy and deputy mayor, according to data from Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE). He was elected 6 times: mayor of Bacabal in 2024 and 2016; state deputy in 2022, 2018, 2014 and 2010. The highest vote was in 2014, for state deputy for MA: 57,569 votes. In the Legislative Assembly of Maranhão, directed R$ 9.7 million in 69 state amendments to the 2023 to 2025 budgets, to 9 municipalities; 98% of this amount has already been paid. In the 2024 campaign for mayor in Bacabal/MA, reported R$ 567 thousand in income: R$ 400 thousand from the Electoral Fund (FEFC), R$ 122 thousand from private donations (106 donors) and R$ 45 thousand from own funds. Contracted spending totals R$ 309 thousand, mainly on activists and street mobilization (R$ 67 thousand), advertising with printed materials (R$ 55 thousand) and transportation or travel (R$ 33 thousand). In previous campaigns, already closed, spent R$ 422 thousand in 2022 and R$ 314 thousand in 2018.
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The votes of José Roberto Costa Santos 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. 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.
Roberto Costa reported income and spending to the TSE in 7 campaigns: state deputy for Maranhão in 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2022, and mayor in Bacabal (MA) in 2016 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$ 567 thousand in income: R$ 400 thousand from the Electoral Fund (FEFC), R$ 122 thousand from private donations (106 donors) and R$ 45 thousand from own funds. Contracted spending totals R$ 309 thousand, mainly on activists and street mobilization (R$ 67 thousand) and advertising with printed materials (R$ 55 thousand). In 2022, R$ 422 thousand in spending; in 2018, 43% of the R$ 314 thousand in spending went to advertising with printed materials.
Fundraising, where the money came from:
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; 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.
In the Legislative Assembly of Maranhão, Roberto Costa directed R$ 9.7 million in 69 state amendments to the 2023 to 2025 budgets, to 9 municipalities. As of the data collection at the source, 98% of this amount had been paid. The agency that received the most in the 2023 a 2026 legislative term was Fundo Penitenciário Estadual (38%). The cities that received the most in the 2023 a 2026 legislative term were Bacabal, São Luís and Axixá. By legislative term: in the 2023 a 2026 legislative term, R$ 7.7 million in 55 amendments; in the 2019 a 2022 legislative term, R$ 2 million in 14 amendments.2
| Budget | Sponsored | Paid | % paid | Amendments | Municipalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | R$ 4.2 million | R$ 4.1 million | 96% | 34 | 2 |
| 2024 | R$ 3.5 million | R$ 3.5 million | 99% | 21 | 4 |
| Legislative term 2023 a 2026 | R$ 7.7 million | R$ 7.5 million | 98% | 55 | 5 |
Agencies that received the most (2023 a 2026)
Municipalities that received the most (2023 a 2026)
Source: Portal da Transparência do Maranhão — Emenda Parlamentar Impositiva Estadual (EPIE), 2023-2026, organized by Radar do Voto. The total leaves out blocked amendments and caucus, committee and rapporteur amendments, which do not have a single author. "Paid" is the current stage of each amendment at the source.
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About the state data. Each state publishes legislative amendments in its own format, with different levels of detail and publication deadlines. That is why there may be amendments without an identified municipality, amounts reallocated to another purpose and payments that only appear at the source some time later. The state figures in this profile are an approximation: before any formal use, check the transparency portal of the Maranhão state government and the Legislative Assembly of Maranhão. ↩
This person's history at the polls, from the most recent candidacy to the oldest.
Mayor · 2024ELECTED30,790LBacabal, Maranhão · 50 years · Pardo (mixed race) · Higher education, complete · Deputado · MDB · no. 15 · see full result
State Deputy · 2022ELECTED34,156GMA · 48 years · Pardo (mixed race) · Higher education, complete · Deputado · MDB · no. 15789 · see full resultcampaign finance report
State Deputy · 2018ELECTED35,214GMA · 44 years · Pardo (mixed race) · Higher education, complete · Deputado · MDB · no. 15789 · see full result
Mayor · 2016ELECTED18,330LBacabal, Maranhão · 42 years · Pardo (mixed race) · Higher education, complete · Deputado · PMDB · no. 15 · see full result
State Deputy · 2014ELECTED57,569GMA · 40 years · Black · Higher education, complete · Deputado · PMDB · no. 15789 · see full result
State Deputy · 2010ELECTED45,257GMA · 36 years · Higher education, complete · PMDB · no. 15789 · see full resultG 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.
