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Coronel Brilhante

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Coronel Brilhante
Inácio Brilhante de Araújo Filho (legal name)
2 elections between 2022 and 2026 · latest party PL
49 years old in 2026 · Male · Higher education, complete
Policial Militar
Candidate for Federal Deputy · Rio Grande do Norte · 2026 elections · PL · no. 2244
social media reported to the TSE

Coronel Brilhante (PL) became an alternate for federal deputy for Rio Grande do Norte in 2026, with 12,117 votes, according to the final results from Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE). Coronel Brilhante (Inácio Brilhante de Araújo Filho) ran in 2 elections between 2022 and 2026, for federal deputy. Not listed as elected in any of them in the TSE results. The highest vote was in 2022, for federal deputy for RN: 30,157 votes. In the 2026 campaign for federal deputy for RN, reported R$ 670 thousand in income: R$ 600 thousand from the Electoral Fund (FEFC), R$ 50 thousand from the Party Fund, R$ 749 de outras campanhas and R$ 19 thousand from private donations (3 donors). Contracted spending totals R$ 565 thousand, mainly on advertising with stickers (R$ 167 thousand), third-party services (R$ 165 thousand) and legal services (R$ 100 thousand). Partial amounts, according to the TSE data of 14/10/2026: the campaign finance report for this election is still in progress. In the 2022 campaign, already closed, spent R$ 1.4 million, 50% on third-party services.

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Vote trend across elections

12,117 votes in 2026 · 2 elections

The votes of Inácio Brilhante de Araújo 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.

Federal Dep.

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. 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

2026 (partial): R$ 670 thousand in income · R$ 565 thousand em gastos contratados

Coronel Brilhante reported income and spending to the TSE in 2 campaigns: federal deputy for Rio Grande do Norte in 2022 and 2026. The amounts are those of the time of each campaign, not adjusted for inflation. In the most recent campaign, in 2026, reported R$ 670 thousand in income: R$ 600 thousand from the Electoral Fund (FEFC), R$ 50 thousand from the Party Fund, R$ 749 de outras campanhas and R$ 19 thousand from private donations (3 donors). Contracted spending totals R$ 565 thousand, mainly on advertising with stickers (R$ 167 thousand) and third-party services (R$ 165 thousand); R$ 561 thousand has already been paid. In 2022, 50% of the R$ 1.4 million in spending went to third-party services. 2026 amounts are partial, according to the TSE data of 14/10/2026.

Income in 2026R$ 670 thousandpartial, until 14/10/2026
Spending in 2026R$ 565 thousandcontracted, partial; R$ 561 thousand paid
Spending in 2022R$ 1.4 millioncampaign closed; all paid
Campaigns22022 and 2026

Fundraising, where the money came from:

  • Electoral Fund (FEFC)
  • Party Fund
  • Other resources from the party and other campaigns
  • Donations from individuals (includes crowdfunding)
2026partialFederal deputy, Rio Grande do NorteSee donors and spending ›
Raised
R$ 670 thousand
3 individual donors
FEFC 90% · Party Fund 7% · party and other campaigns less than 1% · individuals 3%
Spending contracted
R$ 565 thousand
paid so far: R$ 561 thousand (99%)
  • Advertising with stickersR$ 167 thousand29.6%
  • Third-party servicesR$ 165 thousand29.2%
  • Legal servicesR$ 100 thousand17.7%
  • Serviços próprios prestados por terceirosR$ 74 thousand13.1%
  • 4 other categoriesR$ 58 thousand10.3%
2022Federal deputy, Rio Grande do NorteSee donors and spending ›
Raised
R$ 1.4 million
donations from individuals
FEFC 99% · individuals less than 1%
Spending contracted
R$ 1.4 million
all paid (100%)
  • Third-party servicesR$ 700 thousand49.8%
  • Printed materialsR$ 297 thousand21.2%
  • Election polls or testsR$ 108 thousand7.7%
  • Vehicle lending or rentalR$ 94 thousand6.7%
  • 10 other categoriesincludes R$ 0 entered as "miscellaneous, to be specified"R$ 206 thousand14.7%

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. 2026: partial amounts, according to the TSE data of 14/10/2026; 2022: 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

2 candidacies

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.