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Maria Helena

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Maria Helena
Maria Helena Pereira Fontes (legal name)
5 elections between 1994 and 2020 · latest party PSL
76 years old in 2020 · Female · Higher education, complete
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Maria Helena (Maria Helena Pereira Fontes) ran in 5 elections between 1994 and 2020, for city councillor and state deputy, according to data from Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE). She was elected 1 time: city councillor of São Paulo in 1996. The highest vote was in 1994, for state deputy for SP: 14,479 votes. In the 2020 campaign for city councillor in São Paulo/SP, reported R$ 28 thousand in income, from the Electoral Fund (FEFC). Contracted spending totals R$ 30 thousand, mainly on advertising with printed materials (R$ 10 thousand), activists and street mobilization (R$ 6 thousand) and staff (R$ 2 thousand).

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Vote trend across elections

1,938 votes in 2020 (annulled) · 5 elections

The votes of Maria Helena Pereira Fontes 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.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. "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.

Campaign funding

2020: R$ 28 thousand in income · R$ 30 thousand em gastos

Maria Helena reported income and spending to the TSE in 1 campaign: city councillor in São Paulo (SP) in 2020. In the most recent campaign, in 2020, reported R$ 28 thousand in income, from the Electoral Fund (FEFC). Contracted spending totals R$ 30 thousand, mainly on advertising with printed materials (R$ 10 thousand) and activists and street mobilization (R$ 6 thousand).

Income in 2020R$ 28 thousandcampaign closed
Spending in 2020R$ 30 thousandcampaign closed; all paid
Campaigns12020

Fundraising, where the money came from:

  • Electoral Fund (FEFC)
2020City councillor, São Paulo (SP)See donors and spending ›
Raised
R$ 28 thousand
no donations from individuals
FEFC 100%
Spending contracted
R$ 30 thousand
all paid (100%)
  • Printed materialsR$ 10 thousand33.3%
  • Activists and street mobilizationR$ 6 thousand18.3%
  • StaffR$ 2 thousand6.0%
  • Vehicle lending or rentalR$ 1 thousand3.5%
  • 1 other categoryincludes R$ 12 thousand entered as "miscellaneous, to be specified"R$ 12 thousand38.9%

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. 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

5 candidacies · elected in 1996

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.