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Professor Emerson

Emerson Ricardo Araujo de Melo (legal name)
3 elections between 2004 and 2026 · latest party MDB
52 years old in 2026 · Male · Higher education, incomplete
Servidor Público Federal
Candidate for State Deputy · Rio Grande do Norte · 2026 elections · MDB · no. 15123
Sub judice situação do registro nos dados do TSE de 19/10/2026
social media reported to the TSE

In the 2026 election for state deputy for Rio Grande do Norte, Professor Emerson (MDB) got 3,922 votes at the ballot box, annulled according to data from the TSE (registration status: indeferida com recurso). These votes are not counted among the valid votes. The result of this candidacy depends on the Electoral Court's final decision on the registration. Professor Emerson (Emerson Ricardo Araújo de Melo) ran in 3 elections between 2004 and 2026, for state deputy and city councillor. He was elected 1 time: city councillor of Taipu in 2004. The highest vote was in 2026, for state deputy for RN: 3,922 votes, annulled according to the TSE data. In the 2026 campaign for state deputy for RN, reported R$ 112 thousand in income: R$ 75 thousand de outras campanhas and R$ 37 thousand from private donations (12 donors). Contracted spending totals R$ 79 thousand, mainly on advertising with stickers (R$ 28 thousand), advertising with printed materials (R$ 26 thousand) and activists and street mobilization (R$ 15 thousand). Partial amounts, according to the TSE data of 14/10/2026: the campaign finance report for this election is still in progress.

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Vote trend across elections

3,922 votes in 2026 (annulled) · 3 elections

The votes of Emerson Ricardo Araujo de Melo 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.

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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

2026 (partial): R$ 112 thousand in income · R$ 79 thousand em gastos contratados

Professor Emerson reported income and spending to the TSE in 1 campaign: state deputy for Rio Grande do Norte in 2026. In the most recent campaign, in 2026, reported R$ 112 thousand in income: R$ 75 thousand de outras campanhas and R$ 37 thousand from private donations (12 donors). Contracted spending totals R$ 79 thousand, mainly on advertising with stickers (R$ 28 thousand) and advertising with printed materials (R$ 26 thousand); R$ 32 thousand has already been paid. 2026 amounts are partial, according to the TSE data of 14/10/2026.

Income in 2026R$ 112 thousandpartial, until 14/10/2026
Spending in 2026R$ 79 thousandcontracted, partial; R$ 32 thousand paid
Campaigns12026

Fundraising, where the money came from:

  • Other resources from the party and other campaigns
  • Donations from individuals (includes crowdfunding)
2026partialState deputy, Rio Grande do NorteSee donors and spending ›
Raised
R$ 112 thousand
12 individual donors
party and other campaigns 67% · individuals 33%
Spending contracted
R$ 79 thousand
paid so far: R$ 32 thousand (41%)
  • Advertising with stickersR$ 28 thousand35.1%
  • Printed materialsR$ 26 thousand32.6%
  • Activists and street mobilizationR$ 15 thousand19.6%
  • Accounting servicesR$ 10 thousand12.7%

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. 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

3 candidacies · elected in 2004

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.