The BSP won convincingly the pre-term elections in December 1994 with a majority of 125 seats out of the 240 seats in the parliament and despite the mandate is for 4 years, BSP's government collapsed too and remained in office until 1996 due to the economic crysis in Bulgaria.

Talks with political opponents in early 1996 did not go well, but Déby announced his intent to hold presidential elections in June.

Cameroon's first multiparty legislative and presidential elections were held in 1992 followed by municipal elections in 1996 and another round of legislative and presidential elections in 1997.

In the 1996 elections, the MpD increased their majority, but in the 2001 the PAICV returned to power, winning both the Legislative and the Presidential elections.

In March 1996, following presidential elections, Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim, a member of the civilian government that Denard had tried to set up in October 1995, became president.

In early January 1996 Obiang called presidential elections to be held in six weeks.

* 1997 – After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections.

After the first free elections in 1994, de Klerk became deputy president in the government of national unity under Nelson Mandela, a post he kept until 1996.

This arrangement soon broke down, however, and the 1996 and 1997 legislative and municipal elections provided the background for renewed partisan politics.

This arrangement soon broke down, and the 1996 and 1997 legislative and municipal elections provided the background for renewed partisan politics.

In late 1996, Aristide broke with Préval and formed a new political party, the Lavalas Family ( Fanmi Lavalas, FL ), which won elections in April 1997 for one-third of the Senate and local assemblies, but these results were not accepted by the government.

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

For the 1996 national elections, the center-left parties created the Olive Tree coalition while the center-right united again under the House of Freedoms.

In April 1996, national elections led to the victory of a center-left coalition, Olive Tree, under the leadership of Romano Prodi.

At the time of the 1994 mid-term elections, Kemp was widely anticipated to announce his candidacy for 1996, and his supporters wanted a formal announcement by the end of the year.

Kyrgyzstan's independent political parties competed in the 1996 parliamentary elections.

Since independence, general elections have been held in 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1987, 1992, 1996, 1998, 2003 and 2008.

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.

* 1996 – Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.

The October 20, 1996 presidential, legislative, and mayoral elections also were judged free and fair by international observers and by the groundbreaking national electoral observer group Ética y Transparencia ( Ethics and Transparency ) despite a number of irregularities, due largely to logistical difficulties and a baroquely complicated electoral law.

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 ).

During the thirteenth Knesset ( 1992 – 1996 ) it was decided to hold a separate ballot for prime minister modeled after American presidential elections.

Ajax's last international trophies were the 1995 Intercontinental Cup and the 1995 Champions League, where they defeated Milan in the final ; they lost the 1996 Champions League final on penalties to Juventus.

The Cowboys defeated the Eagles for the first Cowboys ' post-season win since the 1996 season, ending a streak of six consecutive NFL post-season losses.

With almost 20 parties competing in the first round, the presidential election came down to a January 7, 1996 runoff in which PAN candidate Álvaro Arzú Irigoyen defeated Alfonso Portillo Cabrera of the FRG by just over 2 % of the vote.

In 1996, a new movement known as the Taliban, rose to power, defeated most of the warlords and took over roughly 80 % of Afghanistan.

In the April 1996 snap parliamentary elections, Berlusconi was defeated by the centre-left candidate Romano Prodi.

In 1996, after Labor under John Brumby was again defeated, he became Shadow Treasurer.

* 1996 ( as Sydney Swans ) – defeated by North Melbourne 19. 17 ( 131 ) to 13. 10 ( 88 ); first grand final appearance after relocation

However, he was narrowly defeated by Benjamin Netanyahu in the first direct elections for Prime Minister in 1996.

The county is generally considered a " red county ," with Republicans usually outvoting Democrats in most statewide and national offices ( for instance, in 2004 George W. Bush defeated John Kerry in Cattaraugus County by a 60-40 margin ) though Bill Clinton won the Cattaraugus County very narrowly in 1996.

Less than 100, 000 Rwandans are estimated to remain outside of Rwanda, and they are thought to be the remnants of the defeated army of the former genocidal government, its allies in the civilian militias known as Interahamwe, and soldiers recruited in the refugee camps before 1996.

The New Democratic Party governed BC for nine and a half years, winning two back-to-back general elections in 1991 and 1996 before being defeated in 2001.

After exiting the presidential race, Gramm defeated Victor Morales of Dallas in November 1996 to win his third and final term in the Senate.

In January 1996, Wyden narrowly defeated Oregon State Senate President Gordon Smith in a special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by Bob Packwood.

Following the Labor Party's 1996 election defeat, Crean contested the deputy leadership of the party but was defeated by Gareth Evans, 42 votes to 37.

On July 14, 1996, he defeated another former champion, Orlando Fernandez, by seventh round TKO.

In 1995, Prodi was one of the founders of the centre-left coalition The Olive Tree, and as its main leader he defeated the Silvio Berlusconi-led centre-right Pole of Freedoms coalition in the 1996 Italian general election.

He was a regular member of the ODI side during the 1996 World Cup, playing in all six matches including the Final, where Sri Lanka defeated Australia to become world champions for the very first time.

Becker's sixth and final Grand Slam title came in 1996 when he defeated Chang in the final of the Australian Open.

Becker defeated Sampras in October 1996 in a five-set final in Stuttgart.

Madelin unsuccessfully ran in 1996 for president of the Union for French Democracy ( UDF ), and was defeated by François Léotard.

He handily defeated Governor William Winter in 1984, was unopposed in 1990, reelected with over 70 percent of the vote in 1996 and faced no major-party opposition in 2002.

* June 26: Cardiff, Wales-The 1996 European Rugby League Championship is won by England who defeated Wales 26-12 at Cardiff Arms Park before a crowd of 5, 245

In 1996, voters of the village defeated an attempt to disincorporate the village and merge with the town.

The villagers appealed to Prime Minister Shimon Peres in April 1996, they received a reply on his behalf from one of his aides: However, Shimon Peres was defeated in the next prime ministerial elections, and in March 1997 police surrounded the mosque and representatives from ILA removed copies of the Quran and prayer rugs and once again sealed the entrance of the mosque.