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In the 2026 election for state deputy for Rio de Janeiro, Paulo Melo (UNIÃO) got 33,546 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. Paulo Melo (Paulo César Melo de Sá) ran in 9 elections between 1994 and 2026, for state deputy, mayor and federal deputy. He was elected 5 times: state deputy in 2014, 2010, 2006, 2002 and 1998. The highest vote was in 2014, for state deputy for RJ: 125,391 votes. In the 2026 campaign for state deputy for RJ, reported R$ 982 thousand in income: R$ 500 thousand from the Electoral Fund (FEFC), R$ 358 thousand from private donations (27 donors) and R$ 124 thousand from own funds. Contracted spending totals R$ 826 thousand, mainly on staff (R$ 435 thousand), third-party services (R$ 123 thousand) and activists and street mobilization (R$ 82 thousand). Partial amounts, according to the TSE data of 14/10/2026: the campaign finance report for this election is still in progress. In previous campaigns, already closed, reported contracted spending of R$ 613 thousand in 2024 (52% on third-party services) and R$ 3.4 million in 2014.
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The votes of Paulo Cesar Melo de Sá 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.
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.
Paulo Melo reported income and spending to the TSE in 5 campaigns: state deputy for Rio de Janeiro in 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2026, and mayor in Saquarema (RJ) in 2024. The amounts are those of the time of each campaign, not adjusted for inflation. In the most recent campaign, in 2026, reported R$ 982 thousand in income: R$ 500 thousand from the Electoral Fund (FEFC), R$ 358 thousand from private donations (27 donors) and R$ 124 thousand from own funds. Contracted spending totals R$ 826 thousand, mainly on staff (R$ 435 thousand) and third-party services (R$ 123 thousand); R$ 286 thousand has already been paid. In 2024, 52% of the R$ 613 thousand in spending went to third-party services; in 2014, R$ 3.4 million in committed spending. 2026 amounts are partial, according to the TSE data of 14/10/2026.
Fundraising, where the money came from:
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; 2024: TSE data of 14/09/2026; 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.
This person's history at the polls, from the most recent candidacy to the oldest.
State Deputy · 2026ANNULLED VOTESSub judice33,546GRJ · 69 years · White · Primary education, complete · Empresário · UNIÃO · no. 44288 · votes outside the valid votes, according to the TSE data · see full resultcampaign finance report
Mayor · 2024NOT ELECTED7,923LSaquarema, Rio de Janeiro · 67 years · White · Primary education, complete · Empresário · MDB · no. 15 · see full result
Federal Deputy · 2022—GRJ · 65 years · White · Secondary education, incomplete · Empresário · UNIÃO · no. 4428 · registration was listed as withdrawn in the TSE data · see the electioncampaign finance report
State Deputy · 2014ELECTED125,391GRJ · 57 years · White · Primary education, complete · Deputado · PMDB · no. 15288 · see full resultcampaign finance reportLegislative Assembly
State Deputy · 2010ELECTED121,684GRJ · 53 years · Primary education, complete · PMDB · no. 15288 · see full resultcampaign finance reportG 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.
