1996 Ecuadorian general election

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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
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

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]

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

President

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 Action187,9354.93
Ricardo NoboaFRAPLRE115,0333.02
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

Party Nationwide District Seats +/–
Votes % Votes %
Social Christian Party 1,069,977 30.4 983,850 27.9 27 +1
Ecuadorian Roldosist Party 718,983 20.4 752,276 21.3 19 +8
Pachakutik Plurinational Unity Movement – New Country 379,056 10.8 251,488 7.1 8 New
Popular Democracy 370,311 10.5 418,381 11.9 11 +7
FRAPLRE 243,411 6.9 148,014 4.2 2 –1
Democratic Left 219,536 6.2 251,505 7.1 4 –4
Democratic People's Movement 153,714 4.4 150,176 4.3 2 –6
Ecuadorian Revolutionary Popular Action 105,902 3.0 123,732 3.5 2 0
Concentration of People's Forces 80,245 2.3 68,070 1.9 1 0
PC–UN 72,434 2.1 79,794 2.3 1 –5
Socialist Party–Broad Front 43,621 1.2 46,462 1.3 5
Latin American People's Union 28,988 0.8 17,612 0.5
National Alfarismo Party 22,987 0.7 30,080 0.9
ITI 14,771 0.4 3,016 0.0
Alfarista Radical Front 9,485 0.3
Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party 5,467 0.2
IDPSFA 3,501 0.0
Civic Independent Union 1,965 0.0
Other parties 183,256 5.2
Invalid/blank votes 997,237 988,067
Total 4,521,207 100 4,516,197 100 82 +5
Registered voters/turnout 6,662,003 67.9 6,662,003 67.8
Source: Nohlen

References

  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