1996 Ecuadorian general election

General elections were held in Ecuador on 19 May 1996, with a second round of the presidential elections on 7 July.[1] 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.[2] The Social Christian Party remained the largest in the Chamber of Deputies, winning 27 of the 82 seats.[3]

1996 Ecuadorian general election

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Presidential election
19 May 1996 (first round)
7 July 1996 (second round)
 
Nominee Abdalá Bucaram Jaime Nebot
Party PRE PSC
Running mate Rosalía Arteaga Diego Cordovez [es]
Popular vote 2,285,397 1,910,651
Percentage 54.47% 45.53%

Second round results by province

President before election

Sixto Durán Ballén
Union Republican Party

Elected President

Abdalá Bucaram
PRE

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.[4]

Results

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President

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CandidatePartyFirst roundSecond round
Votes%Votes%
Jaime NebotSocial Christian Party1,035,10127.171,910,65145.53
Abdalá BucaramEcuadorian Roldosist Party1,001,07126.282,285,39754.47
Freddy EhlersPachakutik Plurinational Unity Movement – New Country785,12420.61
Rodrigo PazPopular Democracy513,46413.48
Frank Vargas PazzosEcuadorian Revolutionary Popular Action [es]187,9354.93
Ricardo Noboa [es]FRAPLRE115,0333.02
Juan José CastellóDemocratic People's Movement89,4722.35
José GallardoCivic Independent Union46,4641.22
Jacinto VelásquezIndependent36,0800.95
Total3,809,744100.004,196,048100.00
Valid votes3,809,74484.184,196,04887.83
Invalid/blank votes716,13715.82581,47812.17
Total votes4,525,881100.004,777,526100.00
Registered voters/turnout6,662,00367.946,662,00371.71
Source: Nohlen

National Congress

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PartyNationalConstituencyTotal
seats
+/–
Votes%Votes%
Social Christian Party1,069,97730.36983,85027.8927+1
Ecuadorian Roldosist Party718,98320.40752,27621.3219+8
Pachakutik Plurinational Unity Movement – New Country379,05610.76251,4887.138New
Popular Democracy370,31110.51418,38111.8611+7
FRAPLRE243,4116.91148,0144.202–1
Democratic Left219,5366.23251,5057.134–4
Democratic People's Movement153,7144.36150,1764.262–6
Ecuadorian Revolutionary Popular Action [es]105,9023.01123,7323.5120
Concentration of People's Forces80,2452.2868,0701.9310
Conservative Party–UN72,4342.0679,7942.261–5
Socialist Party–Broad Front43,6211.2446,4621.325
Latin American People's Union28,9980.8217,6120.50
National Alfarismo Party22,9870.6530,0800.85
Independent Transformative Insurgency Movement14,7710.423,0160.09
Alfarista Radical Front9,4850.27
Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party5,4670.15
IDPSFA3,5010.10
Civic Independent Union1,9650.06
Other parties183,2565.19
Total3,523,946100.003,528,130100.0082+5
Valid votes3,523,94677.943,528,13078.12
Invalid/blank votes997,26122.06988,06721.88
Total votes4,521,207100.004,516,197100.00
Registered voters/turnout6,662,00367.876,662,00367.79
Source: Nohlen

References

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  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p379 ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3
  2. ^ Nohlen, p404
  3. ^ Nohlen, p1996
  4. ^ "Los 7 años de Correa en Ecuador: estabilidad en medio de éxitos y críticas" January 17, 2014. La República