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Spanish general election, 1996
All 350 seats of the Congress of Deputies and 208 of 264 seats in the Senate
March 3, 1996
	Province-level units won by PSOE (red/purple) and PP (blue)
	Incumbent PM; Felipe González; PSOE PM-elect; José María Aznar; PP

General elections were held in Spain on March 3, 1996. The Prime Minister Felipe González of PSOE lost the elections to Partido Popular and their leader José María Aznar.

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.

[edit] Results

Evolution of popular vote in the Spanish General Elections from the democratic transition until 2008. Voter turnout is usually high.

← Spanish general election, 3 March 1996 →
Party	Votes	%	Seats
People's Party (PP)	9,716,006	38.79	156
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	9,425,678	37.63	141
United Left (IU)	2,639,774	10.54	21
Convergence and Union (CiU)	1,151,633	4.64	16
Basque Nationalist Party (PNV)	318,951	1.29	5
Canarian Coalition (CC)	220,418	0.89	4
Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG)	220,147	0.89	2
Herri Batasuna (HB)	181,304	0.73	2
Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC)	167,641	0.67	1
Eusko Alkartasuna (EA)	115,861	0.46	1
Total		100.00	350

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Official results