1996 Ecuadorian general election
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 NoboaFRA–PLRE115,0333.02
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 Party1,069,97730.4983,85027.927+1
Ecuadorian Roldosist Party718,98320.4752,27621.319+8
Pachakutik Plurinational Unity Movement – New Country379,05610.8251,4887.18New
Popular Democracy370,31110.5418,38111.911+7
FRA–PLRE243,4116.9148,0144.22–1
Democratic Left219,5366.2251,5057.14–4
Democratic People's Movement153,7144.4150,1764.32–6
Ecuadorian Revolutionary Popular Action105,9023.0123,7323.520
Concentration of People's Forces80,2452.368,0701.910
PC–UN72,4342.179,7942.31–5
Socialist Party–Broad Front43,6211.246,4621.35–
Latin American People's Union28,9880.817,6120.5
National Alfarismo Party22,9870.730,0800.9
ITI14,7710.43,0160.0
Alfarista Radical Front––9,4850.3
Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party––5,4670.2
ID–PSFA––3,5010.0
Civic Independent Union––1,9650.0
Other parties––183,2565.2
Invalid/blank votes997,237–988,067–––
Total4,521,2071004,516,19710082+5
Registered voters/turnout6,662,00367.96,662,00367.8––
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
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