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| Spanish general election, 1996 | ||||
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| All 350 seats of the Congress of Deputies and 208 of 264 seats in the Senate | ||||
| March 3, 1996 | ||||
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| Leader | José María Aznar | Felipe González | ||
| Party | PP | PSOE | ||
| Last election | 141 seats | 159 seats | ||
| Seats won | 156 | 141 | ||
| Seat change | +15 | -18 | ||
| Popular vote | 9,716,006 | 9,425,678 | ||
| Percentage | 38.8% | 37.6% | ||
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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.
Results
| 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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