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Mario Couto

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Mario Couto
Mario Couto Filho (legal name)
9 elections between 1990 and 2022 · latest party PL
76 years old in 2022 · Male · Higher education, complete
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Mario Couto (Mário Couto Filho) ran in 9 elections between 1990 and 2022, for senator, mayor and state deputy, according to data from Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE). He was elected 5 times: senator in 2006; state deputy in 2002, 1998, 1994 and 1990. The highest vote was in 2022, for senator for PA: 1,485,453 votes. In the 2022 campaign for senator for PA, reported R$ 1 million in income: R$ 1 million from the Electoral Fund (FEFC), R$ 44 thousand from private donations (12 donors) and R$ 1 thousand from own funds. Contracted spending totals R$ 1.1 million, mainly on advertising with printed materials (R$ 344 thousand), legal services (R$ 230 thousand) and activists and street mobilization (R$ 163 thousand). In previous campaigns, already closed, spent R$ 59 thousand in 2020 and R$ 165 thousand in 2018.

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Vote trend across elections

1,485,453 votes in 2022 · 9 elections

The votes of Mario Couto Filho 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.SenatorMayor

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

2022: R$ 1 million in income · R$ 1.1 million em gastos contratados

Mario Couto reported income and spending to the TSE in 5 campaigns: senator for Pará in 2006, 2014, 2018 and 2022, and mayor in Belém (PA) in 2020. The amounts are those of the time of each campaign, not adjusted for inflation. In the most recent campaign, in 2022, reported R$ 1 million in income: R$ 1 million from the Electoral Fund (FEFC), R$ 44 thousand from private donations (12 donors) and R$ 1 thousand from own funds. Contracted spending totals R$ 1.1 million, mainly on advertising with printed materials (R$ 344 thousand) and legal services (R$ 230 thousand). In 2020, R$ 59 thousand in spending; in 2018, R$ 165 thousand in spending.

Income in 2022R$ 1 millioncampaign closed
Spending in 2022R$ 1.1 millioncontracted
Spending in 2020R$ 59 thousandcampaign closed; all paid
Campaigns5from 2006 to 2022

Fundraising, where the money came from:

  • Electoral Fund (FEFC)
  • Other resources from the party and other campaigns
  • Donations from individuals (includes crowdfunding)
  • Companies (until 2014)
  • Own funds
  • Other sources
2022Senator, ParáSee donors and spending ›
Raised
R$ 1 million
12 individual donors
FEFC 96% · individuals 4% · own funds less than 1%
Spending contracted
R$ 1.1 million
paid: R$ 1 million (95%)
  • Printed materialsR$ 344 thousand31.2%
  • Legal servicesR$ 230 thousand20.9%
  • Activists and street mobilizationR$ 163 thousand14.8%
  • Accounting servicesR$ 140 thousand12.7%
  • 6 other categoriesR$ 225 thousand20.4%
2020Mayor, Belém (PA)See donors and spending ›
Raised
R$ 59 thousand
no donations from individuals
own funds 100%
Spending contracted
R$ 59 thousand
all paid (100%)
  • Accounting servicesR$ 20 thousand33.7%
  • Content boostingR$ 17 thousand27.9%
  • Printed materialsR$ 13 thousand21.5%
  • Production of radio, television or video programsR$ 10 thousand16.8%
2018Senator, ParáSee donors and spending ›
Raised
R$ 169 thousand
12 individual donors
individuals 86% · own funds 14%
Spending contracted
R$ 165 thousand
all paid (100%)
  • Third-party servicesR$ 40 thousand24.2%
  • Production of radio, television or video programsR$ 31 thousand18.7%
  • Creation and inclusion of web pagesR$ 27 thousand16.3%
  • Printed materialsR$ 26 thousand15.7%
  • 3 other categoriesR$ 41 thousand25.1%
See the 2 previous campaigns
2014Senator, ParáSee donors and spending ›
Raised
R$ 866 thousand
29 individual donors
party and other campaigns 45% · individuals 15% · companies 17% · own funds 23%
Spending contracted
R$ 866 thousand
the TSE does not publish the amount paid for this year
  • Production of radio, television or video programsR$ 240 thousand27.7%
  • Printed materialsR$ 179 thousand20.6%
  • Publicidade por placas, estandartes e faixasR$ 144 thousand16.7%
  • StaffR$ 109 thousand12.6%
  • 13 other categoriesincludes R$ 5 thousand entered as "miscellaneous, to be specified" and R$ 10 thousand donated to other candidates and partiesR$ 194 thousand22.4%
2006Senator, ParáSee donors and spending ›
Raised
R$ 1.3 million
14 individual donors
party and other campaigns 56% · individuals 4% · companies 34% · other 5%
Spending contracted
R$ 1.1 million
the TSE does not publish the amount paid for this year
  • Printed materialsR$ 244 thousand23.0%
  • Third-party servicesR$ 35 thousand3.3%
  • FoodR$ 14 thousand1.3%
  • Fuel and lubricantsR$ 5 thousand0.5%
  • 9 other categoriesincludes R$ 10 thousand entered as "miscellaneous, to be specified"R$ 760 thousand71.9%

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. 2022: TSE data of 13/09/2026; 2020: TSE data of 12/09/2026; 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.

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Candidacies

9 candidacies · elected in 1998, 2002 and 2006

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.

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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.