Ecuadorian general election, 1996

Ecuadorian general election, 1996

← 1992 19 May 1996 (first round) 7 July 1996 (second round) 1998 →

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%

Map of results of the second round by provinces.

President before election Sixto Durán Ballén PUR Elected President Abdalá Bucaram PRE

Sixto Durán Ballén
PUR

Abdalá Bucaram
PRE

General elections were held in Ecuador on 19 May 1996, with a second round of the presidential elections on 7 July. 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. The Social Christian Party remained the largest in the Chamber of Deputies, winning 27 of the 82 seats.

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.