Ecuadorian general election, 1996
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Bucaram
is released to the presidency for the third time. This time, chosen as a candidate for Vice President Rosalía Arteaga
, former minister of the outgoing government of Duran Ballen
, who had achieved notoriety by opposing plans to conservative Duran Ballen
in public education.
In 1996 Nebot
again be a candidate for the presidency, in this second occasion, the journalist Freddy Ehlers entered the electoral contest, created by the party for this election, nine countries, as well as the businessman Rodrigo Paz
Quito
for the Democracia Popular, Nebot in the first round to obtain 1,035,101 votes, the first place with 22.87% of the votes of the electors, a total of nine presidential candidates, followed by very populist Abdalá Bucaram
by Roldosista party
with 1,001,071 votes, 22.11 %, Ehlers was 785.124, 17.35% and 513.464 Rodrigo Paz
, the 11.35%.
Arteaga facilitated the penetration of PRE
in the electorate of the Ecuadorian highlands. This phenomenon of fear and exploitation of the mountains to a new government Social Christian
(Febres Cordero
was widely criticized by human rights
violations), allowed Bucaram get enough votes to reach the second round in competition with the Social Christian
Jaime Nebot
.
Nebot
and Bucaram
conducted aggressive campaigns and the millions, the product of which ended almost tied. On election day, the channels covering the news could not give the name of the president-elect
, but hours later. Finally, Bucaram
was declared winner of the election with about 8% difference on Nebot
. In the most populous cities (Quito
and Guayaquil
), and in their respective provinces, Bucaram
lost the election, but his triumph in the other provinces was that they overcame the loss in the most populated cities.
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!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left rowspan=2 valign=top|Candidates - Parties
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" colspan=2 align=right|First round
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" colspan=2 align=right|Second round
|-
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|%
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|%
|-
|align=left valign=top|Abdalá Bucaram
- Ecuadorian Roldosist Party
|bgcolor=lightgreen | 1,001,071
|bgcolor=lightgreen valign="top"| 22.11
|bgcolor=green | 2,285,397
|bgcolor=green valign="top"| 54,3
|-
|align=left valign=top|Jaime Nebot
- Social Christian Party
|bgcolor=green | 1,035,101
|bgcolor=green valign="top"| 22,87
|1,910,651
|valign="top"| 45.7
|-
|align=left valign=top|Freddy Ehlers - Nuevo País
| 785,124
|valign="top"| 17.35
|valign="top" colspan=2 rowspan=11|
|-
|align=left valign=top|Rodrigo Paz
- Democracia Popular
|513,464
|valign="top"| 11.35
|-
|align=left valign=top|Frank Vargas - APRI
|187,935
|valign="top"| 4.15
|-
|align=left valign=top|Ricardo Noboa - Independent
|115,033
|valign="top"| 2.54
|-
|align=left valign=top|Juan José Castello - Democratic People's Movement
|89,472
|valign="top"| 1.98
|-
|align=left valign=top|José Gallardo - Independent
|46,464
|valign="top"| 1.03
|-
|align=left valign=top|Jacinto Velásquez - Independent
|36,080
|valign="top"| 0.80
|-
|align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Blank votes
|336,072
|width="75" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|
|7.42
|width="75" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|
|-
|align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Null votes
|380,065
|width="75" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|
|8.40
|width="75" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|
|-
|align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total
|4,525,881
|width="75" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|
|100
|width="75" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|
|-
|align=left colspan=5|Source: Ecuadorian general election, 1996
|}
Abdalá Bucaram
Abdalá Jaime Bucaram Ortíz is an Ecuadorian politician and lawyer who briefly occupied the Presidency of Ecuador...
is released to the presidency for the third time. This time, chosen as a candidate for Vice President Rosalía Arteaga
Rosalía Arteaga
Lupe Rosalía Arteaga Serrano de Fernández de Córdova is an Ecuadorian politician who served as the country's first female president for only two days in 1997....
, former minister of the outgoing government of Duran Ballen
Sixto Durán Ballén
Sixto Alfonso Durán-Ballén Cordovez is an U.S.-born Ecuadorian political figure and architect. He served as Mayor of Quito between 1970 and 1978, and as president of Ecuador between 1992 and 1996...
, who had achieved notoriety by opposing plans to conservative Duran Ballen
Sixto Durán Ballén
Sixto Alfonso Durán-Ballén Cordovez is an U.S.-born Ecuadorian political figure and architect. He served as Mayor of Quito between 1970 and 1978, and as president of Ecuador between 1992 and 1996...
in public education.
In 1996 Nebot
Jaime Nebot
Jaime Nebot is an Ecuadorian politician. He currently serves as mayor of Guayaquil, which is Ecuador's largest city. Although he is affiliated with the Social Christian Party, he has distanced himself from it and now concentrates more on running the city...
again be a candidate for the presidency, in this second occasion, the journalist Freddy Ehlers entered the electoral contest, created by the party for this election, nine countries, as well as the businessman Rodrigo Paz
Rodrigo Paz
Rodrigo Paz Delgado is an Ecuadorian politician and businessman. He was the mayor of Quito from 1988 to 1992. He ran as a presidential candidate in 1995/6. One of his political parties was Democracia Popular ....
Quito
Quito
San Francisco de Quito, most often called Quito , is the capital city of Ecuador in northwestern South America. It is located in north-central Ecuador in the Guayllabamba river basin, on the eastern slopes of Pichincha, an active stratovolcano in the Andes mountains...
for the Democracia Popular, Nebot in the first round to obtain 1,035,101 votes, the first place with 22.87% of the votes of the electors, a total of nine presidential candidates, followed by very populist Abdalá Bucaram
Abdalá Bucaram
Abdalá Jaime Bucaram Ortíz is an Ecuadorian politician and lawyer who briefly occupied the Presidency of Ecuador...
by Roldosista party
Ecuadorian Roldosist Party
The Ecuadorian Roldosist Party is a centre-left populist political party in Ecuador.At the legislative elections, 20 October 2002, the party won 15 out of 100 seats. Its candidate Jacobo Bucaram Ortiz won 11.9 % of the vote in the presidential elections of the same day, coming in 6th place...
with 1,001,071 votes, 22.11 %, Ehlers was 785.124, 17.35% and 513.464 Rodrigo Paz
Rodrigo Paz
Rodrigo Paz Delgado is an Ecuadorian politician and businessman. He was the mayor of Quito from 1988 to 1992. He ran as a presidential candidate in 1995/6. One of his political parties was Democracia Popular ....
, the 11.35%.
Arteaga facilitated the penetration of PRE
Ecuadorian Roldosist Party
The Ecuadorian Roldosist Party is a centre-left populist political party in Ecuador.At the legislative elections, 20 October 2002, the party won 15 out of 100 seats. Its candidate Jacobo Bucaram Ortiz won 11.9 % of the vote in the presidential elections of the same day, coming in 6th place...
in the electorate of the Ecuadorian highlands. This phenomenon of fear and exploitation of the mountains to a new government Social Christian
Social Christian Party (Ecuador)
The Social Christian Party is a center-right political party in Ecuador.The party was founded by Camilo Ponce Enríquez and was initially focused on Quito...
(Febres Cordero
León Febres Cordero
León Esteban Febres-Cordero Ribadeneyra was President of Ecuador for a four-year term from 10 August 1984 to 10 August 1988...
was widely criticized by human rights
Human rights
Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...
violations), allowed Bucaram get enough votes to reach the second round in competition with the Social Christian
Social Christian Party (Ecuador)
The Social Christian Party is a center-right political party in Ecuador.The party was founded by Camilo Ponce Enríquez and was initially focused on Quito...
Jaime Nebot
Jaime Nebot
Jaime Nebot is an Ecuadorian politician. He currently serves as mayor of Guayaquil, which is Ecuador's largest city. Although he is affiliated with the Social Christian Party, he has distanced himself from it and now concentrates more on running the city...
.
Nebot
Jaime Nebot
Jaime Nebot is an Ecuadorian politician. He currently serves as mayor of Guayaquil, which is Ecuador's largest city. Although he is affiliated with the Social Christian Party, he has distanced himself from it and now concentrates more on running the city...
and Bucaram
Abdalá Bucaram
Abdalá Jaime Bucaram Ortíz is an Ecuadorian politician and lawyer who briefly occupied the Presidency of Ecuador...
conducted aggressive campaigns and the millions, the product of which ended almost tied. On election day, the channels covering the news could not give the name of the president-elect
President-elect
An -elect is a political candidate who has been elected to an office but who has not yet been sworn in or officially taken office. These may include an incoming president, senator, representative, governor and mayor.Analogously, the term "designate" An -elect is a political candidate who has been...
, but hours later. Finally, Bucaram
Abdalá Bucaram
Abdalá Jaime Bucaram Ortíz is an Ecuadorian politician and lawyer who briefly occupied the Presidency of Ecuador...
was declared winner of the election with about 8% difference on Nebot
Jaime Nebot
Jaime Nebot is an Ecuadorian politician. He currently serves as mayor of Guayaquil, which is Ecuador's largest city. Although he is affiliated with the Social Christian Party, he has distanced himself from it and now concentrates more on running the city...
. In the most populous cities (Quito
Quito
San Francisco de Quito, most often called Quito , is the capital city of Ecuador in northwestern South America. It is located in north-central Ecuador in the Guayllabamba river basin, on the eastern slopes of Pichincha, an active stratovolcano in the Andes mountains...
and Guayaquil
Guayaquil
Guayaquil , officially Santiago de Guayaquil , is the largest and the most populous city in Ecuador,with about 2.3 million inhabitants in the city and nearly 3.1 million in the metropolitan area, as well as that nation's main port...
), and in their respective provinces, Bucaram
Abdalá Bucaram
Abdalá Jaime Bucaram Ortíz is an Ecuadorian politician and lawyer who briefly occupied the Presidency of Ecuador...
lost the election, but his triumph in the other provinces was that they overcame the loss in the most populated cities.
Results
Summary of the 19 May 1996 and 12 June 1996 Ecuador presidential election resultsElections in Ecuador
Elections in Ecuador gives information on election and election results in Ecuador.Ecuador elects on national level a head of state, , and a legislature. The President of the Republic and his vice-president are elected on one ballot for a four-year term by the people...
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!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left rowspan=2 valign=top|Candidates - Parties
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" colspan=2 align=right|First round
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" colspan=2 align=right|Second round
|-
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|%
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|%
|-
|align=left valign=top|Abdalá Bucaram
Abdalá Bucaram
Abdalá Jaime Bucaram Ortíz is an Ecuadorian politician and lawyer who briefly occupied the Presidency of Ecuador...
- Ecuadorian Roldosist Party
Ecuadorian Roldosist Party
The Ecuadorian Roldosist Party is a centre-left populist political party in Ecuador.At the legislative elections, 20 October 2002, the party won 15 out of 100 seats. Its candidate Jacobo Bucaram Ortiz won 11.9 % of the vote in the presidential elections of the same day, coming in 6th place...
|bgcolor=lightgreen | 1,001,071
|bgcolor=lightgreen valign="top"| 22.11
|bgcolor=green | 2,285,397
|bgcolor=green valign="top"| 54,3
|-
|align=left valign=top|Jaime Nebot
Jaime Nebot
Jaime Nebot is an Ecuadorian politician. He currently serves as mayor of Guayaquil, which is Ecuador's largest city. Although he is affiliated with the Social Christian Party, he has distanced himself from it and now concentrates more on running the city...
- Social Christian Party
Social Christian Party
Several political parties, past and present have been known as the Social Christian Party or close variants on the name:* Social Christian Party * Social Christian Party * Social Christian Party * Christian Social Union of Bavaria...
|bgcolor=green | 1,035,101
|bgcolor=green valign="top"| 22,87
|1,910,651
|valign="top"| 45.7
|-
|align=left valign=top|Freddy Ehlers - Nuevo País
| 785,124
|valign="top"| 17.35
|valign="top" colspan=2 rowspan=11|
|-
|align=left valign=top|Rodrigo Paz
Rodrigo Paz
Rodrigo Paz Delgado is an Ecuadorian politician and businessman. He was the mayor of Quito from 1988 to 1992. He ran as a presidential candidate in 1995/6. One of his political parties was Democracia Popular ....
- Democracia Popular
|513,464
|valign="top"| 11.35
|-
|align=left valign=top|Frank Vargas - APRI
|187,935
|valign="top"| 4.15
|-
|align=left valign=top|Ricardo Noboa - Independent
|115,033
|valign="top"| 2.54
|-
|align=left valign=top|Juan José Castello - Democratic People's Movement
Democratic People's Movement
The Democratic People's Movement is the electoral wing of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador and a political party in Ecuador since 1978....
|89,472
|valign="top"| 1.98
|-
|align=left valign=top|José Gallardo - Independent
|46,464
|valign="top"| 1.03
|-
|align=left valign=top|Jacinto Velásquez - Independent
|36,080
|valign="top"| 0.80
|-
|align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Blank votes
|336,072
|width="75" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|
|7.42
|width="75" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|
|-
|align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Null votes
|380,065
|width="75" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|
|8.40
|width="75" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|
|-
|align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total
|4,525,881
|width="75" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|
|100
|width="75" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|
|-
|align=left colspan=5|Source: Ecuadorian general election, 1996
|}