1996 Ecuadorian general election|
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General elections were held in Ecuador on 19 May 1996, with a second round of the presidential elections on 7 July.[1][2] Although Jaime Nebot of the Social Christian Party received the most votes in the first round, Abdalá Bucaram of the Ecuadorian Roldosist Party won the run-off with 54.5% of the vote.[3] The Social Christian Party remained the largest in the Chamber of Deputies, winning 27 of the 82 seats.[4]
Until the 2013 vote, this was the last election held after the natural expiration of a four-year presidential term. This due to a decade of political and economical instability that Ecuador experienced after Bucaram was impeached by the Congress in early 1997 and that lasted until Rafael Correa's inauguration in early 2007.[5]
Results
President
| Candidate | Party | First round | Second round |
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| Votes | % | Votes | % |
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| Jaime Nebot | Social Christian Party | 1,035,101 | 27.17 | 1,910,651 | 45.53 |
| Abdalá Bucaram | Ecuadorian Roldosist Party | 1,001,071 | 26.28 | 2,285,397 | 54.47 |
| Freddy Ehlers | Pachakutik Plurinational Unity Movement – New Country | 785,124 | 20.61 | |
| Rodrigo Paz | Popular Democracy | 513,464 | 13.48 | |
| Frank Vargas Pazzos | Ecuadorian Revolutionary Popular Action | 187,935 | 4.93 | |
| Ricardo Noboa | FRA–PLRE | 115,033 | 3.02 | |
| Juan José Castelló | Democratic People's Movement | 89,472 | 2.35 | |
| José Gallardo | Civic Independent Union | 46,464 | 1.22 | |
| Jacinto Velásquez | Independent | 36,080 | 0.95 | |
| Total | 3,809,744 | 100.00 | 4,196,048 | 100.00 |
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| Valid votes | 3,809,744 | 84.18 | 4,196,048 | 87.83 |
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| Invalid/blank votes | 716,137 | 15.82 | 581,478 | 12.17 |
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| Total votes | 4,525,881 | 100.00 | 4,777,526 | 100.00 |
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| Registered voters/turnout | 6,662,003 | 67.94 | 6,662,003 | 71.71 |
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| Source: Nohlen |
National Congress
| Party | National | Constituency | Total
seats | +/– |
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| Votes | % | Votes | % |
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| Social Christian Party | 1,069,977 | 30.36 | 983,850 | 27.89 | 27 | +1 |
| Ecuadorian Roldosist Party | 718,983 | 20.40 | 752,276 | 21.32 | 19 | +8 |
| Pachakutik Plurinational Unity Movement – New Country | 379,056 | 10.76 | 251,488 | 7.13 | 8 | New |
| Popular Democracy | 370,311 | 10.51 | 418,381 | 11.86 | 11 | +7 |
| FRA–PLRE | 243,411 | 6.91 | 148,014 | 4.20 | 2 | –1 |
| Democratic Left | 219,536 | 6.23 | 251,505 | 7.13 | 4 | –4 |
| Democratic People's Movement | 153,714 | 4.36 | 150,176 | 4.26 | 2 | –6 |
| Ecuadorian Revolutionary Popular Action | 105,902 | 3.01 | 123,732 | 3.51 | 2 | 0 |
| Concentration of People's Forces | 80,245 | 2.28 | 68,070 | 1.93 | 1 | 0 |
| Conservative Party–UN | 72,434 | 2.06 | 79,794 | 2.26 | 1 | –5 |
| Socialist Party–Broad Front | 43,621 | 1.24 | 46,462 | 1.32 | 5 | – |
| Latin American People's Union | 28,998 | 0.82 | 17,612 | 0.50 | – |
| National Alfarismo Party | 22,987 | 0.65 | 30,080 | 0.85 | – |
| Independent Transformative Insurgency Movement | 14,771 | 0.42 | 3,016 | 0.09 | – |
| Alfarista Radical Front | | 9,485 | 0.27 | – |
| Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party | | 5,467 | 0.15 | – |
| ID–PSFA | | 3,501 | 0.10 | – |
| Civic Independent Union | | 1,965 | 0.06 | – |
| Other parties | | 183,256 | 5.19 | – |
| Total | 3,523,946 | 100.00 | 3,528,130 | 100.00 | 82 | +5 |
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| Valid votes | 3,523,946 | 77.94 | 3,528,130 | 78.12 | |
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| Invalid/blank votes | 997,261 | 22.06 | 988,067 | 21.88 | |
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| Total votes | 4,521,207 | 100.00 | 4,516,197 | 100.00 | |
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| Registered voters/turnout | 6,662,003 | 67.87 | 6,662,003 | 67.79 | |
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| Source: Nohlen |
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