Leandro Varela (Leandro Varela dos Santos) ran in 3 elections between 2016 and 2024, for mayor, deputy mayor and city councillor, according to data from Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE). He was elected 2 times: mayor of Canguaretama in 2024; city councillor of Canguaretama in 2020. The highest vote was in 2024, for mayor in Canguaretama/RN: 10,774 votes. In the 2024 campaign for mayor in Canguaretama/RN, reported R$ 179 thousand in income: R$ 150 thousand from the Electoral Fund (FEFC), R$ 5 thousand from private donations (67 donors) and R$ 24 thousand from own funds. Contracted spending totals R$ 47 thousand, mainly on production of jingles, vignettes and slogans (R$ 10 thousand), legal services (R$ 10 thousand) and accounting services (R$ 8 thousand). In previous campaigns, already closed, reported contracted spending of R$ 170 in 2020 (59% on production of jingles, vignettes and slogans) and R$ 1 thousand in 2016.
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Vote trend across elections
10,774 votes in 2024 (elected) · 3 elections
The votes of Leandro Varela dos 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.
City CouncillorMayorticket votes (running mate/alternate)
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. The hatched bar marks an executive running mate or an alternate senator: they do not receive individual votes, so the bar shows the ticket votes of the main candidate (hence the "ticket" next to the number). 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.
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Campaign funding
2024: R$ 179 thousand in income · R$ 47 thousand em gastos
Leandro Varela reported income and spending to the TSE in 3 campaigns: city councillor in Canguaretama (RN) in 2016 and 2020, and mayor in Canguaretama (RN) in 2024. The amounts are those of the time of each campaign, not adjusted for inflation. In the most recent campaign, in 2024, reported R$ 179 thousand in income: R$ 150 thousand from the Electoral Fund (FEFC), R$ 5 thousand from private donations (67 donors) and R$ 24 thousand from own funds. Contracted spending totals R$ 47 thousand, mainly on production of jingles, vignettes and slogans (R$ 10 thousand) and legal services (R$ 10 thousand). In 2020, 59% of the R$ 170 in spending went to production of jingles, vignettes and slogans; in 2016, 54% of the R$ 1 thousand in committed spending went to serviços próprios prestados por terceiros.
Income in 2024R$ 179 thousandcampaign closed
Spending in 2024R$ 47 thousandcampaign closed; all paid
Spending in 2020R$ 170campaign closed; all paid
Campaigns32016, 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)
party and other campaigns 4% · individuals 63% · own funds 33%
Spending contracted
R$ 1 thousand
the TSE does not publish the amount paid for this year
Serviços próprios prestados por terceirosR$ 70054.4%
Production of jingles, vignettes and slogansR$ 30023.3%
Fuel and lubricantsR$ 1209.3%
Candidacy promotion eventsR$ 1209.3%
1 other categoryR$ 463.6%
Running mates and alternates do not have their own campaign account: the account is that of the main candidate's ticket.
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.
This person's history at the polls, from the most recent candidacy to the oldest.
Mayor · 2024ELECTED10,774LCanguaretama, Rio Grande do Norte · 49 years · Pardo (mixed race) · Higher education, complete · Professor de Ensino Fundamental · MDB · no. 15 · see full result
Deputy Mayor · 2020NOT ELECTEDRUNOFF7,352LCanguaretama, Rio Grande do Norte · 45 years · Pardo (mixed race) · Higher education, complete · Professor de Ensino Fundamental · PSDB · no. 12 · First round: 2,230 · a running mate does not receive individual votes · see full result
City Councillor · 2020ELECTED511LCanguaretama, Rio Grande do Norte · 45 years · Pardo (mixed race) · Higher education, complete · Professor de Ensino Fundamental · PSDB · no. 45789 · see full resultcampaign finance report
City Councillor · 2016ALTERNATE285LCanguaretama, Rio Grande do Norte · 41 years · Pardo (mixed race) · Higher education, complete · Professor de Ensino Fundamental · PSD · no. 55222 · see full result
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.