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Benício

Benicio Tavares da Cunha Mello (legal name)
6 elections between 1994 and 2022 · latest party PATRIOTA
66 years old in 2022 · Male · Higher education, complete
Administrador
social media reported to the TSE

Benício (Benício Tavares da Cunha Mello) ran in 6 elections between 1994 and 2022, for district deputy, according to data from Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE). He was elected 5 times: district deputy in 2010, 2006, 2002, 1998 and 1994. The highest vote was in 2002, for district deputy for DF: 26,252 votes. In the 2010 campaign for district deputy for DF, reported R$ 530 thousand in income: R$ 90 thousand de outros recursos do partido e de outras campanhas, R$ 183 thousand from private donations (30 donors), R$ 241 thousand from companies and R$ 15 thousand from own funds. Contracted spending totals R$ 530 thousand, mainly on third-party services (R$ 119 thousand), staff (R$ 50 thousand) and fuel and lubricants (R$ 47 thousand). In the 2006 campaign, already closed, reported contracted spending of R$ 330 thousand.

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Vote trend across elections

41 votes in 2022 (annulled) · 6 elections

The votes of Benicio Tavares da Cunha Mello 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

2010: R$ 530 thousand in income · R$ 530 thousand em gastos contratados

Benício reported income and spending to the TSE in 2 campaigns: district deputy for Distrito Federal in 2006 and 2010. The amounts are those of the time of each campaign, not adjusted for inflation. In the most recent campaign, in 2010, reported R$ 530 thousand in income: R$ 90 thousand de outros recursos do partido e de outras campanhas, R$ 183 thousand from private donations (30 donors), R$ 241 thousand from companies and R$ 15 thousand from own funds. Contracted spending totals R$ 530 thousand, mainly on third-party services (R$ 119 thousand) and staff (R$ 50 thousand). In 2006, R$ 330 thousand in committed spending.

Spending in 2010R$ 530 thousandcontracted, campaign closed
Campaigns32006, 2010 and 2022

Fundraising, where the money came from:

  • Other resources from the party and other campaigns
  • Donations from individuals (includes crowdfunding)
  • Companies (until 2014)
  • Own funds
2022District deputy, Distrito FederalSee donors and spending ›
Raised
no income reported
Spending contracted
no spending reported in the TSE data
2010District deputy, Distrito FederalSee donors and spending ›
Raised
R$ 530 thousand
30 individual donors
party and other campaigns 17% · individuals 35% · companies 46% · own funds 3%
Spending contracted
R$ 530 thousand
the TSE does not publish the amount paid for this year
  • Third-party servicesR$ 119 thousand22.5%
  • StaffR$ 50 thousand9.4%
  • Fuel and lubricantsR$ 47 thousand8.9%
  • TelephoneR$ 44 thousand8.3%
  • 9 other categoriesincludes R$ 108 thousand entered as "miscellaneous, to be specified"R$ 269 thousand50.9%
2006District deputy, Distrito FederalSee donors and spending ›
Raised
R$ 330 thousand
16 individual donors
party and other campaigns 69% · individuals 9% · companies 18% · own funds 4%
Spending contracted
R$ 330 thousand
the TSE does not publish the amount paid for this year
  • Printed materialsR$ 70 thousand21.3%
  • Fuel and lubricantsR$ 66 thousand19.9%
  • StaffR$ 42 thousand12.7%
  • Despesas postaisR$ 27 thousand8.3%
  • 13 other categoriesincludes R$ 6 thousand entered as "miscellaneous, to be specified"R$ 125 thousand37.7%

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. 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

6 candidacies · elected in 2002, 2006 and 2010

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.