Nilton Souza (Nilton de Souza Melo) ran in 5 elections between 2004 and 2024, for city councillor and state deputy, according to data from Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE). He was elected 1 time: city councillor of Porto Velho in 2024. The highest vote was in 2024, for city councillor in Porto Velho/RO: 2,955 votes. In the 2024 campaign for city councillor in Porto Velho/RO, reported R$ 168 thousand in income: R$ 40 thousand from the Electoral Fund (FEFC), R$ 117 thousand from private donations (23 donors) and R$ 12 thousand from own funds. Contracted spending totals R$ 93 thousand, mainly on activists and street mobilization (R$ 39 thousand), fuel and lubricants (R$ 14 thousand) and advertising with printed materials (R$ 12 thousand). In previous campaigns, already closed, spent R$ 15 thousand in 2020 (59% on advertising with printed materials) and R$ 10 thousand in 2018.
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Vote trend across elections
2,955 votes in 2024 (elected) · 5 elections
The votes of Nilton de Souza 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.
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.
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Campaign funding
2024: R$ 168 thousand in income · R$ 93 thousand em gastos
Nilton Souza reported income and spending to the TSE in 4 campaigns: city councillor in Porto Velho (RO) in 2016, 2020 and 2024, and state deputy for Rondônia in 2018. The amounts are those of the time of each campaign, not adjusted for inflation. In the most recent campaign, in 2024, reported R$ 168 thousand in income: R$ 40 thousand from the Electoral Fund (FEFC), R$ 117 thousand from private donations (23 donors) and R$ 12 thousand from own funds. Contracted spending totals R$ 93 thousand, mainly on activists and street mobilization (R$ 39 thousand) and fuel and lubricants (R$ 14 thousand). In 2020, 59% of the R$ 15 thousand in spending went to advertising with printed materials; in 2018, 53% of the R$ 10 thousand in spending went to advertising with stickers.
Income in 2024R$ 168 thousandcampaign closed
Spending in 2024R$ 93 thousandcampaign closed; all paid
Spending in 2020R$ 15 thousandcampaign closed; all paid
Campaigns42016, 2018, 2020 and 2024
Fundraising, where the money came from:
Electoral Fund (FEFC)
Other resources from the party and other campaigns
Donations from individuals (includes crowdfunding)
party and other campaigns 21% · individuals 71% · own funds 8%
Spending contracted
R$ 13 thousand
the TSE does not publish the amount paid for this year
Vehicle lending or rentalR$ 6 thousand42.9%
Fuel and lubricantsR$ 4 thousand28.0%
Property rentalR$ 2 thousand15.0%
Third-party servicesR$ 2 thousand13.2%
1 other categoryR$ 1150.9%
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. 2024: TSE data of 14/09/2026; 2020: TSE data of 12/09/2026; 2018: 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.
City Councillor · 2020ALTERNATE1,711LPorto Velho, Rondônia · 37 years · Pardo (mixed race) · Higher education, complete · Servidor Público Estadual · PV · no. 43123 · see full resultcampaign finance report
State Deputy · 2018ANNULLED VOTESCASSADO2,072GRO · 35 years · Pardo (mixed race) · Higher education, complete · Servidor Público Estadual · PTC · no. 36123 · votes outside the valid votes, according to the TSE data · see full result
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.