1996 Nicaraguan general election
General election held in Nicaragua in 1996
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General elections were held in Nicaragua on 20 October 1996 to elect the President and the members of the National Assembly . [1] Arnoldo Alemán of the Liberal Alliance (a coalition of the Constitutionalist Liberal Party , Independent Liberal Party for National Unity , Nationalist Liberal Party and Neoliberal Party ) was elected President, with the Liberal Alliance also winning 42 of the 93 seats in the National Assembly.
Results
President
Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
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Arnoldo Alemán | Liberal Alliance | 896,207 | 50.99 | |
Daniel Ortega | Sandinista National Liberation Front | 664,909 | 37.83 | |
Guillermo Antonio Osorno Molina | Nicaraguan Party of the Christian Path | 71,908 | 4.09 | |
Noel José Vidaurre Argüello | Conservative Party | 39,983 | 2.27 | |
Benjamin Ramón Lanzas Selva | National Project | 9,265 | 0.53 | |
Sergio Ramírez | Sandinista Renovation Movement | 7,665 | 0.44 | |
Francisco José Mayorga Balladares | Bread and Strength Alliance ( PAN –ASR) | 7,102 | 0.40 | |
Francisco José Duarte Tapia | National Conservative Action | 6,178 | 0.35 | |
Edgar Enrique Quiñónes Tuckler | Nicaraguan Resistance Party | 5,813 | 0.33 | |
Andrés Abelino Robles Pérez | Nicaraguan Workers, Peasants and Professionals Unity Party | 5,789 | 0.33 | |
Virgilio Godoy | Independent Liberal Party | 5,692 | 0.32 | |
Jorge Alberto Díaz Cruz | National Justice Party | 5,582 | 0.32 | |
Alejandro Serrano Caldera | Unity Alliance | 4,873 | 0.28 | |
Elí Altamirano | Communist Party of Nicaragua | 4,802 | 0.27 | |
Miriam Auxiliadora Argüello Morales | Popular Conservative Alliance | 4,632 | 0.26 | |
Ausberto Narváez Argüello | Liberal Unity Party | 3,887 | 0.22 | |
Alfredo César Aguirre | UNO–96 Alliance (PND–MAC– MDN ) | 3,664 | 0.21 | |
Allan Antonio Tefel Alba | National Renovation Movement | 2,641 | 0.15 | |
James Odnith Webster Pitts | Democratic Action Party | 1,895 | 0.11 | |
Sergio Abilio Mendieta Castillo | Central American Integrationist Party | 1,653 | 0.09 | |
Moisés Hassán | Renovating Action Movement | 1,393 | 0.08 | |
Gustavo Ernesto Tablada Zelaya | Nicaraguan Socialist Party | 1,352 | 0.08 | |
Roberto Urcuyo Muñoz | Nicaraguan Democratic Party | 890 | 0.05 | |
Total | 1,757,775 | 100.00 | ||
Valid votes | 1,757,775 | 95.05 | ||
Invalid/blank votes | 91,587 | 4.95 | ||
Total votes | 1,849,362 | 100.00 | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 2,421,067 | 76.39 | ||
Source: Nohlen |
National Assembly
Party | National | Departmental |
Total
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Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | |||
Liberal Alliance | 789,533 | 45.97 | 9 | 781,068 | 45.25 | 33 | 42 | |
Sandinista National Liberation Front [lower-alpha 1] | 629,178 | 36.64 | 8 | 629,939 | 36.49 | 27 | 36 | |
Nicaraguan Party of the Christian Path [lower-alpha 1] | 63,867 | 3.72 | 1 | 63,986 | 3.71 | 2 | 4 | |
National Project | 40,656 | 2.37 | 1 | 36,417 | 2.11 | 1 | 2 | |
Conservative Party [lower-alpha 1] | 36,543 | 2.13 | 1 | 39,153 | 2.27 | 1 | 3 | |
Sandinista Renovation Movement | 22,789 | 1.33 | 0 | 23,554 | 1.36 | 1 | 1 | |
Nicaraguan Resistance Party | 21,068 | 1.23 | 0 | 27,970 | 1.62 | 1 | 1 | |
Unity Alliance | 14,001 | 0.82 | 0 | 13,848 | 0.80 | 1 | 1 | |
Independent Liberal Party | 12,459 | 0.73 | 0 | 13,697 | 0.79 | 1 | 1 | |
UNO–96 Alliance (PND–MAC– MDN ) | 10,706 | 0.62 | 0 | 12,720 | 0.74 | 1 | 1 | |
National Conservative Action | 9,811 | 0.57 | 0 | 13,011 | 0.75 | 0 | 0 | |
National Action Party | 9,724 | 0.57 | 0 | 12,016 | 0.70 | 0 | 0 | |
National Justice Party | 8,155 | 0.47 | 0 | 8,527 | 0.49 | 0 | 0 | |
Liberal Unity Party | 7,531 | 0.44 | 0 | 9,893 | 0.57 | 0 | 0 | |
Popular Conservative Alliance | 6,726 | 0.39 | 0 | 6,335 | 0.37 | 1 | 1 | |
Communist Party of Nicaragua | 6,360 | 0.37 | 0 | 6,970 | 0.40 | 0 | 0 | |
Nicaraguan Workers, Peasants and Professionals Unity Party | 5,641 | 0.33 | 0 | 5,067 | 0.29 | 0 | 0 | |
Democratic Action Party | 5,272 | 0.31 | 0 | 6,254 | 0.36 | 0 | 0 | |
National Renovation Movement | 4,988 | 0.29 | 0 | 3,788 | 0.22 | 0 | 0 | |
Nicaraguan Socialist Party | 2,980 | 0.17 | 0 | 3,228 | 0.19 | 0 | 0 | |
Central American Integrationist Party | 2,834 | 0.17 | 0 | 2,406 | 0.14 | 0 | 0 | |
Marxist–Leninist Popular Action Movement | 2,446 | 0.14 | 0 | 520 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | |
Renovating Action Movement | 2,418 | 0.14 | 0 | 2,992 | 0.17 | 0 | 0 | |
Nicaraguan Democratic Alliance | 1,730 | 0.10 | 0 | 2,060 | 0.12 | 0 | 0 | |
Social Democratic Party | 724 | 0.04 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Total | 1,717,416 | 100.00 | 20 | 1,726,143 | 100.00 | 70 | 93 | |
Valid votes | 1,717,416 | 93.81 | 1,726,143 | 93.85 | ||||
Invalid/blank votes | 113,391 | 6.19 | 113,169 | 6.15 | ||||
Total votes | 1,830,807 | 100.00 | 1,839,312 | 100.00 | ||||
Registered voters/turnout | 2,421,067 | 75.62 | 2,421,067 | 75.97 | ||||
Source: Nohlen, Election Passport |
By region
Region | AL | FSLN | PCCN | Other |
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Boaco | 57.19% | 21.03% | 4.59% | 17.19% |
Carazo | 40.02% | 39.39% | 4.08% | 16.51% |
Chinandega | 36.20% | 45.72% | 3.28% | 14.79% |
Chontales | 63.76% | 19.05% | 0.96% | 16.23% |
Esteli | 40.66% | 45.78% | 2.65% | 10.91% |
Granada | 48.00% | 32.92% | 2.82% | 16.26% |
Jinotega | 53.40% | 28.24% | 4.74% | 13.62% |
Leon | 35.79% | 46.06% | 5.10% | 13.05% |
Madriz | 37.08% | 41.64% | 2.10% | 19.18% |
Managua | 43.95% | 39.87% | 4.70% | 11.48% |
Masaya | 43.48% | 34.98% | 4.00% | 17.53% |
Matagalpa | 49.29% | 31.20% | 4.40% | 15.11% |
Nueva Segovia | 36.44% | 42.80% | 1.62% | 19.14% |
RAAN | 50.50% | 29.31% | 1.12% | 19.06% |
RAAS | 57.06% | 28.81% | 1.29% | 12.85% |
Rio San Juan | 47.22% | 31.15% | 3.25% | 18.38% |
Rivas | 44.65% | 34.27% | 3.48% | 17.60% |
Source: Constituency Level Elections Archive [2] |
References
- ↑ Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I , p489 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6
- ↑ "Constituency-Level Elections Archive (CLEA)" . www.electiondataarchive.org . Retrieved 2019-03-09 .
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