In the 1996 presidential election, Clinton was re-elected, receiving 49. 2 % of the popular vote over Republican Bob Dole ( 40. 7 % of the popular vote ) and Reform candidate Ross Perot ( 8. 4 % of the popular vote ), becoming the first Democratic incumbent since Lyndon Johnson to be elected to a second term and the first Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to be elected President more than once.

* 1996 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18 month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf.

He decided against running for the 1996 Republican presidential nomination, citing health problems related to phlebitis.

* 1996 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes a large bomb in the middle of Manchester, England.

In January 1995, Kemp's stated reason for not entering the 1996 Republican Party presidential primaries was that his personal beliefs were out of balance with the contemporary Republican political landscape: Kemp opposed term limits, he always preferred tax cuts to anything resembling a balanced budget amendment and, unlike most Republicans, favored federal incentives to combat urban poverty.

Among the 1996 Republican Party candidates, both Steve Forbes and Phil Gramm proposed the flat tax.

On August 16, 1996, the Republican Party chose Kemp as its vice presidential nominee, running alongside former Senator Dole.

" The funeral marked her first major public appearance since delivering a speech to the 1996 Republican National Convention on her husband's behalf.

McVeigh was a registered Republican when he lived in Buffalo, New York in the 1980s, and had a membership in the National Rifle Association while in the military, but voted for Libertarian Party candidate, Harry Browne, in the 1996 presidential elections.

Hagelin threatened to sue the organizers of the National Issues Convention, a forum on social issues held in January 1996, if he was not allowed to participate along with the Republican and Democratic candidates.

During the 1996 election, the party ran hundreds of candidates for seats in the United States House of Representatives, against both Democratic and Republican incumbents.

The United States presidential election of 1996 was a contest between the Democratic national ticket of President Bill Clinton from Arkansas and Vice President Al Gore from Tennessee and the Republican national ticket of former Senator Bob Dole of Kansas for President and former Housing Secretary Jack Kemp from New York for Vice President.

Dole resigned his Senate seat on June 11 and the Republican National Convention formally nominated Dole on August 15, 1996 as the GOP's nominee for President.

** U. S. presidential election, 1996: Democratic incumbent Bill Clinton defeats Republican challenger Bob Dole to win his second term.

* September 22 – American millionaire Steve Forbes announces his candidacy for the 1996 Republican presidential nomination.

* September 3 – Pat McGeown, Provisional Irish Republican Army member ( d. 1996 )

In 1996, bipartisan legislation for voluntary spending limits which rewards those who bare soft money is killed by a Republican filibuster.

Dutchess County has historically leaned Republican due to its affluence and large suburban swaths ; it has voted for Democratic presidential candidates only three times-1964, 1996 and 2008.

Greene County is considered a Republican stronghold, it was only one of 11 counties in New York that didn't vote for Bill Clinton in 1996, and it supported John McCain by an eleven point margin in 2008, a Democratic year.

Dole was the Republican Party presidential nominee in the presidential election of 1996, but he lost to incumbent Democrat Bill Clinton.

The song was used in Tennessee politics by Lamar Alexander, a trained pianist, Governor of Tennessee and U. S. Senator, who performed the song for campaign events, including during his 1996 run for the Republican presidential nomination.

In an essay written in 1996, Ralph Reed argued against the moral absolutist tone of Christian right leaders, arguing for the Republican Party Platform to stress the moral dimension of abortion rather than placing emphasis on overturning Roe v. Wade.

Likewise in the aftermath of the 1986 split in the Republican Movement, Maguire signed a statement in 1986 but was issued posthumously in 1996, he conferred this " legitimacy " on the Army Council of the Continuity IRA ( who provided a firing party at Maguire's funeral in 1993 ).

In 1996, Abdalá Bucaram, from the populist Ecuadorian Roldosista Party, won the presidency on a platform that promised populist economic and social reforms.

In the general elections of June 1996 the Democratic Party tried to win an absolute majority and manipulated the results.

Between 1996 and 1998, there was a period of political flux with the government being formed first by the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) followed by a left-leaning United Front coalition.

Although government policies supporting large military and internal security forces and allocating resources to key supporters of the Ba ' ath Party government hurt the economy, implementation of the United Nations ' corruption-plagued oil-for-food program in December 1996 was to have improved conditions for the average Iraqi citizen.

The 1996 elections resulted in the election of the Labour Party, by 8, 000 votes, to replace the Nationalists who had won in 1987 and 1992.

The main opposition party was the Democratic Party or DP, which controlled a governing coalition from 1996 to 2000.

In February 1996, the Communist Party of Nepal ( Maoist ) began a violent insurgency in more than 50 of the country's 75 districts.

* 1996 – Death of Abdullah Çatlı, leader of the Turkish ultra-nationalist organisation Grey Wolves in the Susurluk car-crash, which leads to the resignation of the Turkish Interior Minister, Mehmet Ağar ( a leader of the True Path Party, DYP ).

In the 1996 general elections the Natural Law Party ran candidates only in the Trentino-Alto Adige / Südtirol region, who won 8, 298 votes for the Chamber of Deputies and 5, 842 for the Senate ( about 1 % on a regional basis, 0. 2 % in the whole country ).

A 70-page Natural Law Party paper was prepared in the context of the 1996 Framework Document of the British and Irish governments.

The Natural Law Party ( United States ) ran John Hagelin as its presidential candidate in 1992, 1996, and 2000.

Keating immediately resigned as Labor Party leader, and resigned from Parliament a little over a month later, on 23 April 1996.

Promises of a return to civilian rule were fulfilled by Bio, who handed power over to Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, of the Sierra Leone People's Party ( SLPP ), after the conclusion of elections in early 1996.

* Raving Loony Party Favourites ( Compilation, 1996 )

In the 1996 Nicaraguan election, Ortega and Ramírez both campaigned unsuccessfully as presidential candidates on behalf of their respective parties, with Ortega receiving 43 % of the vote while Arnoldo Alemán of the Constitutional Liberal Party received 51 %.

The U. S. version of the Natural Law Party ran John Hagelin as its presidential candidate in 1992, 1996, and 2000.

In 1996, the Libertarian Party became the first third party to earn ballot status in all 50 states two presidential elections in a row.

Pat Buchanan threatened in 1996 to run as the U. S. Taxpayers Party candidate if Bob Dole chose a pro-choice running mate.

The current President of the Socialist Republic, Trương Tấn Sang, was directly elected from the provinces at the 8th Party Congress, held 1996.

** Alfred Sant, Leader of Malta Labour Party ( 1992 –) and Prime Minister of Malta ( 1996 – 1998 )

* January 30 – John Howard becomes leader of the Liberal Party of Australia to challenge Paul Keating for the 1996 Federal Election and the position of Prime Minister of Australia.