Campaign money, in the open: Radar do Voto launches the Campaigns Radar and the Donors Radar
Sep 19, 2026 · Radar do Voto Team
Where each campaign's money came from and where it went, from city councillor to president. Which candidates received the most resources from their party? Who did a person donate to over their lifetime? Radar do Voto opens two new dashboards: fundraising, spending by category, cost per vote, comparison between candidates and the profile of each donor, over the last 20 years.
In the Campaigns Radar, you compare all the candidates of a race side by side: how much each one raised, how much they spent and on what. Here, the presidential candidates in 2026.
After opening up the elections and the legislative amendments, Radar do Voto now sheds light on campaign money.
We are launching two dashboards that complement each other: the Campaigns Radar, which shows where each candidate's money came from and where it went, and the Donors Radar, which shows who funds politics. All from the campaign finance reports of Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE), from city councillor to president, from 2006 to 2026, on phones or computers.
Campaigns Radar: each candidate's money.
You choose the year, the state, the office and the city and see, candidate by candidate:
- Who received the most money from the party?
- How much they raised and where it came from: the total of each campaign and the split between public money (the Electoral Fund and the party fund) and private resources (individuals, the candidate themselves and crowdfunding).
- How they spent it: spending by category, from the street team and printed material to internet boosting and media production, plus the amount contracted and the amount actually paid.
- Cost per vote: how much each elected candidate spent per vote, to compare who ran an expensive campaign and who did a lot with little.
- Suppliers: who received the campaign's money, the full list for each candidate, and the print shops, agencies and platforms that served several candidates in the same race.
The Suppliers tab shows all the companies that received each campaign's money, from the largest amount to the smallest. In the example, the suppliers of Lula's presidential campaign in 2026.
Compare the whole race.
In one click, the dashboard ranks all the candidates in the election: who raised the most, who spent the most, each one's cost per vote and the strength of each party in financing. You can filter by those elected and by those who already held office, and see the public and private makeup of each campaign side by side.
Donors Radar: who funds politics.
The other end of the same story. Search for a person, a company, a party or a crowdfunding campaign and see the full picture of the donor:
- How much they donated and to whom: all of that donor's donations, to which candidates and in which years, adding up the last 20 years in a single profile.
- Ranking of the biggest funders: the country's largest donors, by individual, by party and by crowdfunding platform.
- The cross-check: who backed several candidates at the same time, the pattern that only appears when you look at the donor, not the campaign.
- Donations from private companies: you can also check donations from private companies from when they were still allowed, up to 2014.
In the Donors Radar, each donor's profile shows who they gave to over the years. In the example, JBS S/A and the campaigns it funded when corporate donations were still allowed, up to 2014.
2026 live.
While the 2026 election is being counted, the amounts are partial and growing: the dashboard is updated every day as the TSE publishes new campaign finance reports.
What it is for:
Seeing where a candidate's funding comes from, how much they cost per vote and who is behind the largest donations helps voters decide, journalists investigate and researchers understand the machinery of campaigns.
Radar do Voto gathers and organizes public data from the TSE (the campaign finance reports, DivulgaCandContas) and is not a primary source. In case of discrepancy, the TSE's data prevails.
Radar do Voto is an initiative to make Brazilian politics more transparent and within everyone's reach: from elections to legislative amendments, we bring together in one place what was scattered and hard to find, so anyone can understand it and keep watch with information in hand. If you believe in this, help us go further: share it with friends, family and people who work in politics.