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Mercial Arruda (Mercial Lima de Arruda) ran in 8 elections between 1994 and 2020, for mayor, federal deputy and state deputy, according to data from Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE). He was elected 6 times: mayor of Grajaú in 2020, 2016, 2008 and 2004; state deputy in 1998 and 1994. The highest vote was in 2016, for mayor in Grajaú/MA: 20,352 votes. In the 2020 campaign for mayor in Grajaú/MA, reported R$ 273 thousand in income: R$ 75 thousand from the Electoral Fund (FEFC), R$ 168 thousand from private donations (39 donors) and R$ 30 thousand from own funds. Contracted spending totals R$ 269 thousand, mainly on advertising with printed materials (R$ 62 thousand), rallies (R$ 47 thousand) and fuel and lubricants (R$ 41 thousand). In previous campaigns, already closed, reported contracted spending of R$ 174 thousand in 2016 and R$ 2 thousand in 2014.
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The votes of Mercial Lima de Arruda 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.
Mercial Arruda reported income and spending to the TSE in 4 campaigns: mayor in Grajaú (MA) in 2008, 2016 and 2020, and federal deputy for Maranhão in 2014. The amounts are those of the time of each campaign, not adjusted for inflation. In the most recent campaign, in 2020, reported R$ 273 thousand in income: R$ 75 thousand from the Electoral Fund (FEFC), R$ 168 thousand from private donations (39 donors) and R$ 30 thousand from own funds. Contracted spending totals R$ 269 thousand, mainly on advertising with printed materials (R$ 62 thousand) and rallies (R$ 47 thousand). In 2016, R$ 174 thousand in committed spending; in 2014, 100% of the R$ 2 thousand in committed spending went to third-party services.
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. 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.
This person's history at the polls, from the most recent candidacy to the oldest.
Mayor · 2020ELECTED17,289LGrajaú, Maranhão · 77 years · Pardo (mixed race) · Higher education, complete · Engenheiro · MDB · no. 15 · see full result
Mayor · 2016ELECTED20,352LGrajaú, Maranhão · 73 years · Pardo (mixed race) · Higher education, complete · Engenheiro · PMDB · no. 15 · see full result
Federal Deputy · 2014ANNULLED VOTESInapto36GMA · 71 years · Pardo (mixed race) · Higher education, complete · Servidor Público Estadual · DEM · no. 2501 · votes outside the valid votes, according to the TSE data · 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.
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.
