1996 Nicaraguan general election

1996 Nicaraguan general election

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Presidential election
Turnout76.39% (Decrease 9.84pp)
 
Candidate Arnoldo Alemán Daniel Ortega
Party Liberal Alliance FSLN
Running mate Enrique Bolaños Juan Manuel Caldera
Popular vote 896,207 664,909
Percentage 50.99% 37.83%

Results by department

President before election

Violeta Chamorro
Independent

Elected President

Arnoldo Alemán
PLC

Parliamentary election

90 of 93 seats in the National Assembly
46 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
Liberal Alliance[a] Arnoldo Alemán 45.97 42 New
FSLN Daniel Ortega 36.46 35 −4
CCN Guillermo Osorno 3.72 3 New
PRONAL Benjamín Lanzas 2.37 2 New
Conservative Noel Vidaurre 2.13 2
MRS Sergio Ramírez 1.33 1 New
PRN Edgar Quiñónez 1.23 1 New
Unity Alliance[b] Alejandro Serrano 0.82 1 New
PLI Virgilio Godoy 0.73 1
UNO-96 Alfredo Aguirre 0.62 1 New
APC Miriam Argüello 0.39 1 −4
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
President of the National Assembly before President of the National Assembly after
Cairo Manuel López
UDC
Iván Escobar
PLC

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.


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  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p489 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6