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Spanish Legislative Election, 1996Legislative elections were held in Spain on March 3, 1996. The Prime Minister Felipe Gonzlez of PSOE lost the elections to Partido Popular and their leader Jos Mara Aznar. National summary of votes and seats in the Congress of Deputies Registered voters: 32,531,833 Votes cast: 25,172,058 77.4% Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------- Basque Nationalist Party 318,951 01.3 (+00.1) 5 Bloque Nacionalista Galego 220,147 00.9 (+00.4) 2 (+02) Coalicin Canaria 220,418 00.9 ( 00.0) 4 Convergncia i Uni 1,151,633 04.6 (-00.4) 16 (-01) Esquerra Rep de Catalunya 167,641 00.7 (-00.1) 1 Eusko Alkartasuna 115,861 00.5 1 (+01) Herri Batasuna 181,304 00.7 (-00.2) 2 Iniciativa per Catalunya 296,985 01.2 ( 00.0) 2 (-01) Izquierda Unida 2,639,774 10.6 (+02.2) 19 (+04) Partido Popular 9,716,006 39.2 (+06.4) 156 (+15) Partido Socialista (PSOE) 9,425,678 38.0 (-01.1) 141 (-18) Uni Valenciana 91,575 00.4 (-00.1) 1 others 256,958 01.0 - (-02) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 24,802,931 350 -------------------------------------------------------------------- The lower house consisted of 350 deputies elected on block lists by proportional representation. Each province was entitled to a minimum of 3 deputies, with one deputy each from the African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. Source: Adam Carr's Electoral Archive See also: Spanish legislative election, 1993, Spanish legislative election, 2000
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