In 2018, in Rio Grande do Norte, 8 federal deputies were elected, according to data from Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE). The largest caucuses were those of PT, PTC, PR, MDB, PSB, PSL, PP and PSD, with 1 each. The most votes went to Benes Leocadio (PTC), with 125,841 votes (7.77% of the valid votes). The electoral quotient was about 202,353 votes, and the lowest vote total among those elected was 70,350: seats are allocated to the party first.
The quotient is the number of votes the party needs per seat (valid votes ÷ seats); the seat goes to the party's most voted candidate. The cutoff is the lowest vote total among those elected (the entry threshold), and it is usually much lower than the quotient. The top non-elected is the highest vote total among those not elected, and it can be higher than the cutoff (it is then highlighted), because the seat belongs to the party before it belongs to the candidate. Learn about the cutoff and the quotient in the tutorial.
The table above already includes every year from 1994 onward. To see an election before 1994, choose the year in All elections in Rio Grande do Norte.
General Election·2018·Federal Deputy·Rio Grande do Norte (RN)
6 candidacies on this list had their votes annulled, according to data from the TSE: they appear at the end, with the votes entered on the voting machines (the machine tally report), without a percentage and outside the ranking of valid votes, because these votes are not part of the valid votes. The tag next to it shows the status of the candidacy registration in the TSE data, which may still change with a decision by the Electoral Courts.
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Registered voters2,372,548
Turned out1,966,450
Abstentions406,098
Blank109,541
Null238,086
Valid1,618,823
Registered voters: voters who could vote. Turnout: how many went to the polls. Abstentions: how many stayed away (registered voters − turnout). Blank and Null: those who turned out but did not choose a valid candidate. Valid: the votes that count for candidates (turnout − blank − null); percentages are calculated on them.
8 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, split among 8 parties. A seat is worth about ~202,353 votes: the electoral quotient (valid votes ÷ seats). Of the 8 seats, 6 came from the quota (the party reaches the quotient) and 2 from the remainders (the seats left over go, one by one, to the party with the highest average). That is why the party with the most votes takes more than its own quota.
PTPartido dos Trabalhadores112.50%
246,756 candidate votes + 16,327 party-list
1 from the quota
PTCPartido Trabalhista Cristão112.50%
126,615 candidate votes + 2,677 party-list
1 from the quota
PRPartido da República112.50%
93,505 candidate votes + 3,756 party-list
1 from the quota
MDBMovimento Democrático Brasileiro112.50%
92,432 candidate votes + 6,640 party-list
1 from the quota
PSBPartido Socialista Brasileiro112.50%
82,791 candidate votes + 2,116 party-list
1 from the quota
PSLPartido Social Liberal112.50%
81,640 candidate votes + 7,735 party-list
1 from the quota
PPPartido Progressista112.50%
81,308 candidate votes + 4,875 party-list
0 from the quota + 1 from remainders
PSDPartido Social Democrático112.50%
74,453 candidate votes + 3,093 party-list
0 from the quota + 1 from remainders
Coalition: until 2018 parties could join a single slate, and the quotient belonged to the coalition, not to each party. Seats went to the alliance and then to the candidates with the most votes within it. That is why a small party could elect someone by riding on the group's total. Use Group by coalition above to see who ran together. From 2020 on this ended in proportional elections; what exists today is the federation, which is permanent: parties that federate must stay together for at least 4 years, nationwide and during the term, not only for the election.
Elected seats, from the TSE results. This is the composition that came out of the ballot boxes, not the one the chamber had over the legislative term: anyone who switched parties after the election does not change this number. The count adds up those elected, without recalculating the quotient, so it matches the legal size of the chamber.
Votes by party (all, including those that elected no one)
Each party by its total votes (candidate votes + party-list votes), including those that won no seat. The number on the right is how many electoral quotients the party added up (votes ÷ quotient): below 1.0 it did not reach, on its own, the cost of a seat, but it could still elect through the coalition or the remainders.
Todas as eleições in Rio Grande do Norte 34 anos, de 1933 a 2026▾
As eleições do Rio Grande do Norte, ano a ano: nas eleições gerais de 1933 a 2026, a votação de cada candidato a presidente (somada no estado), governador, senador, deputado federal e deputado estadual, com a lista completa dos candidatos e quem foi eleito; nas eleições municipais de 1996 a 2024, prefeito e vereador, apurados cidade a cidade: cada uma leva às cidades do Rio Grande do Norte. Escolha o ano e o cargo:
General election: president, governor, senator and deputies. Municipal election: mayor and city councillor.
The cutoff table covers from 1994 to 2026; the results by election go as far as the TSE publishes each office. Mayor and city council votes are counted city by city: in the list of elections, each one takes you to the cities in the state.
The percentage of valid votes is not shown in this table: valid votes include party-only votes, which do not go to any candidate.
