9,716,006 38.8% 9,425,678 37.6% 2,639,774 10.5% | 38.8% 156 37.6% 141 10.5% 21 | |
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This is the regional results breakdown of the Congress of Deputies election held in Spain on 3 March 1996, showing results in each of the country's 17 autonomous communities as well as in the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla.
Electoral system
The Spanish electoral system was regulated under the Organic Law 5/1985, of 19 June, of the General Electoral System. A total of 350 seats were elected for the Congress of Deputies, with Ceuta and Melilla electing one member each using plurality voting. The other 348 seats were distributed among 50 multi-member constituency—each corresponding to a province—, with an initial minimum of two seats per constituency and the remaining 248 being awarded in proportion to the districts populations. For the election of deputies, the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation was used, with a threshold of 3% of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied. Parties not reaching the threshold were not taken into consideration for seat distribution.
Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage, with all nationals over eighteen and in the full enjoyment of all political rights entitled to vote. Groups of electors were required to obtain the signatures of at least 1% of registered electors in a particular district in order to be able to field candidates.