Elmano de Freitas da Costa (born 12 April 1970) is a Brazilian lawyer and politician.

Having graduated with a law degree from the Federal University of Ceará, he started his legal career and political inclinations working with labor unions and social movements.

Elmano began his activism in Baturité, where he became part of the local basic ecclesial community with the Catholic church, teaching children who did not attend school to read.

[5] In 2008, he coordinated Lins' reelection campaign for mayor, and in the following year, during her second mandate, he led the Peoples' Participation commission in her cabinet, afterwards becoming, between 2011 and 2012, the municipal Secretary of Education.

[14] In 2016, Freitas was the vice-mayoral candidate with Luizianne Lins for the mayoralty of Fortaleza for the PT,[18] receiving 193,687 (15.06%) and ending in 3rd place.

[23] Freitas was chosen by the PT during a conflict between the state alliance with the Democratic Labour Party (PDT), which preferred their candidate, then-governor and former vice-governor Izolda Cela who came to office after governor Camilo Santana (PT) became a candidate for senator that year, to the detriment to party colleague Roberto Cláudio to succeed in state government.