confianelas.com
confianelas.com is a Brazilian 2026 election website that organizes female candidacies by state while promoting greater visibility for women in Brazilian politics.
What does confianelas.com actually do?
The website provides a state-by-state directory where visitors can find women registered for governor, vice governor, senator, Senate substitute, federal deputy, state deputy, and district deputy.
Its homepage said on September 17, 2026 that it contained 7,355 female candidacies among 20,956 registrations, equal to 35.1% of the total included in that extraction.
The project describes itself as a nonpartisan civil-society initiative rather than a political party or individual candidate campaign.
That description explains the site's purpose, but voters still need to evaluate individual candidates, parties, policies, and records independently.
Where does its candidate information come from?
According to the site's methodology page, its primary source is the Brazilian Superior Electoral Court's official 2026 candidate database.
ConfiaNelas says it combines the main candidate file with complementary registration-status data and social-media addresses declared during official candidate registration.
It also says every female candidacy is included without ranking candidates by popularity, ideology, party, or perceived quality.
Candidate status matters because registrations can move between pending, approved, rejected, withdrawn, appealed, or substituted as the electoral process develops.
How large is the gender gap behind the project?
Women account for 83,877,126 registered voters in 2026, or 52.84% of Brazil's electorate, according to the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral.
By contrast, the Inter-Parliamentary Union currently reports that women occupy 17.15% of the 513 seats in Brazil's Chamber of Deputies.
UN Women Brazil similarly reported in July 2026 that women held about 17.2% of seats in the national parliament under the indicator it cited.
These figures describe representation levels rather than showing how any voter should choose among candidates.
Why can its candidate totals differ from other TSE figures?
A TSE calculation published in August 2026 counted 7,165 women among 20,560 candidacies, equal to 34.85%.
ConfiaNelas later displayed 7,355 women among 20,956 registrations because its homepage used a September extraction and said it included candidacies in any registration-status category.
The difference shows why election statistics need an extraction date and inclusion rule beside the number.
How does Brazil's 30% gender rule relate to the site?
Brazil's Election Law requires parties or federations to keep each gender between 30% and 70% when registering candidates under the proportional-election rules.
For 2026, this rule applies to proportional legislative candidacies rather than creating a 30% minimum for majoritarian offices such as governor or senator.
This distinction helps explain why ConfiaNelas showed female shares above 34% for several legislative categories but much lower percentages for some majoritarian contests.
Is there anything readers should check carefully?
The site's methodology page currently contains an unusual statement saying its prototype displays 7,355 fictitious candidacies and that none of the listed people exist.
That sentence conflicts with other parts of the live site, which present named candidates and repeatedly describe the records as official TSE data.
The same methodology page also had an update date of September 16 while the homepage showed September 17 during this review, suggesting that parts of the site may not always update simultaneously.
These inconsistencies do not by themselves establish that the website is unreliable, but they make the official TSE record the safer source for confirming a person's current legal candidacy status.
How does confianelas.com handle personal data?
Its privacy page says it does not publish candidates' CPF numbers, voter-registration numbers, email addresses, or official photographs even when some information exists in public election datasets.
The site also states that it does not use tracking cookies, advertising profiles, or third-party navigation-data sharing.
However, the privacy page currently lists the contact information for its data-protection officer as still to be defined before publication, which is another unfinished detail visitors may notice.
What is the most useful way to understand the website?
confianelas.com works best as a specialized discovery layer over Brazilian election data because it makes female candidacies easier to browse by state and office.
For final verification before Brazil's first round on October 4, 2026, voters can compare its listings with the official Justiça Eleitoral records because registration status can continue changing during the election process.