| Election Name: | 1996 Madeiran regional election |
| Country: | Madeira |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Previous Election: | 1992 Madeiran regional election |
| Previous Year: | 1992 |
| Election Date: | 13 October 1996 |
| Next Election: | 2000 Madeiran regional election |
| Next Year: | 2000 |
| Seats For Election: | 59 seats to the Legislative Assembly of Madeira |
| Majority Seats: | 30 |
| Turnout: | 65.3% 1.2 pp |
| Leader2: | Emanuel Fernandes |
| Party2: | Socialist Party (Portugal) |
| Leaders Seat2: | Funchal |
| Last Election2: | 12 seats, 22.5% |
| Seats2: | 13 |
| Seat Change2: | 1 |
| Popular Vote2: | 33,790 |
| Percentage2: | 24.8% |
| Swing2: | 2.3 pp |
| Leader1: | Alberto João Jardim |
| Party1: | Social Democratic Party (Portugal) |
| Leaders Seat1: | Funchal |
| Last Election1: | 39 seats, 56.9% |
| Seats1: | 41 |
| Seat Change1: | 2 |
| Popular Vote1: | 77,365 |
| Percentage1: | 56.9% |
| Swing1: | 0.0 pp |
| Image3: | CDS |
| Leader3: | Rui Gomes Vieira |
| Party3: | CDS – People's Party |
| Leaders Seat3: | Funchal |
| Last Election3: | 2 seats, 8.1% |
| Seats3: | 2 |
| Seat Change3: | 0 |
| Popular Vote3: | 9,950 |
| Percentage3: | 7.3% |
| Swing3: | 0.8 pp |
| Colour4: | FF0000 |
| Leader4: | Edgar Silva |
| Party4: | CDU |
| Leaders Seat4: | Funchal |
| Last Election4: | 1 seat, 3.0% |
| Seats4: | 2 |
| Seat Change4: | 1 |
| Popular Vote4: | 5,495 |
| Percentage4: | 4.0% |
| Swing4: | 1.0 pp |
| Image5: | UDP |
| Colour5: | E2062C |
| Leader5: | Paulo Martins |
| Party5: | UDP |
| Leaders Seat5: | Funchal |
| Last Election5: | 2 seats, 4.6% |
| Seats5: | 1 |
| Seat Change5: | 1 |
| Popular Vote5: | 5,485 |
| Percentage5: | 4.0% |
| Swing5: | 0.6 pp |
| Map Size: | 250px |
| President | |
| Posttitle: | President-designate |
| Before Election: | Alberto João Jardim |
| Before Party: | Social Democratic Party (Portugal) |
| After Election: | Alberto João Jardim |
| After Party: | Social Democratic Party (Portugal) |
The Madeira Regional Election (1996) (Portuguese: Eleições Regionais da Madeira, 1996) was an election held on 13 October 1996 for the legislative assembly and government of the Portuguese autonomous region of the Madeira
The winner of the election in Madeira was, once more, the Social Democratic Party, and Alberto João Jardim was elected president of the Regional Government with an absolute majority for the 6th consecutive time. The percentage gathered by the social democrats was virtually the same of the previous election, however, due to the populational growth of the region, the number of MPs was increased from 57 to 59, and so, the social democrats gained 2 MPs, achieving a total of 41.
The People's Party lost some of its voters, but still managed to keep the 2 MPs, unlike the National Solidarity Party that lost its single MP.
On the left, the Socialist Party increased the voting by 1 percentage point and received one more MP. The Unitary Democratic Coalition, led by the Portuguese Communist Party, increased the voting and the number of MPs, stealing one MP from the People's Democratic Union that elected only 1 MP.
Voter turnout was slightly lower, compared with 1992, with 65.3 percent of the electorate casting their ballot on election day.
In this election, the members of the regional parliament were elected in 11 constituencies, representing the 11 municipalities of Madeira, that were awarded a determined number of member to elect according with the number of registered voters in those constituencies. The method use to elect the members was the D'Hondt method.[1] In this election the number of MPs to be elected rose from 57 in 1992 to 59.
A total of 7 political parties presented lists of candidates for the regional elections in Madeira, where 208,486 electors could elect 59 deputies to the Legislative Assembly. Of these parties, some of the more prominent:
|-| colspan="11"||-! rowspan="2" colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left|Parties! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|%! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|±pp swing! colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|MPs! rowspan="2" colspan=5 style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|MPs %/
votes %|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"! align="center"|1992! align="center"|1996! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|±! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|%! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|±|-| |77,365||56.87||0.0||39||41||2||69.49||1.1||1.22|-| |33,790||24.84||2.3||12||13||1||22.03||0.9||0.89|-| |9,950||7.31||0.8||2||2||0||3.39||0.1||0.46|-| |5,495||4.04||1.0||1||2||1||3.39||1.6||0.84|-|style="width: 10px" bgcolor=#E2062C align="center" | |align=left|People's Democratic Union|5,485||4.03||0.6||2||1||1||1.69||1.8||0.42|-|style="width: 10px" bgcolor=#000080 align="center" | |align=left|National Solidarity|875||0.64||1.8||1||0||1||0.00||1.8||0.0|-| |565||0.42||0.2||0||0||0||0.00||0.0||0.0|-|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid|width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|133,525|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|98.14|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0.1|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|57|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|59|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|2|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0.0|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|—|-|colspan=2|Blank ballots|991||0.73||0.0||colspan=6 rowspan=4||-|colspan=2|Invalid ballots|1,534||1.13||0.2|-|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total|width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|136,050|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"||-|colspan=2|Registered voters/turnout||208,486||65.26||1.2|-| colspan=11 align=left | Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições|}
|- class="unsortable"!rowspan=2|Constituency!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!rowspan=2|Total
S|- class="unsortable" style="text-align:center;"!colspan=2 | PSD!colspan=2 | PS!colspan=2 | CDS-PP!colspan=2 | CDU!colspan=2 | UDP|-| style="text-align:left;" | Calheta| style="background:; color:white;"|69.9| 3| 6.4| -| 20.9| -| 0.5| -| 0.8| -| 3|-| style="text-align:left;" | Câmara de Lobos| style="background:; color:white;"|69.8| 5| 12.7| 1| 6.3| -| 5.7| -| 3.2| -| 6|-| style="text-align:left;" | Funchal| style="background:; color:white;"|49.5| 15| 27.2| 8| 7.4| 2| 6.5| 2| 5.9| 1| 28|-| style="text-align:left;" | Machico| style="background:; color:white;"|55.4| 3| 36.6| 2| 2.7| -| 1.1| -| 2.6| -| 5|-| style="text-align:left;" | Ponta do Sol| style="background:; color:white;"|67.6| 2| 16.0| -| 11.3| -| 0.6| -| 2.7| -| 2|-| style="text-align:left;" | Porto Moniz| style="background:; color:white;"|64.3| 1| 27.8| -| 4.6| -| 0.3| -| 0.5| -| 1|-| style="text-align:left;" | Porto Santo| style="background:; color:white;"|56.6| 1| 37.2| -| 3.1| -| 0.4| -| 0.5| -| 1|-| style="text-align:left;" | Ribeira Brava| style="background:; color:white;"|68.9| 3| 19.8| -| 5.4| -| 0.9| -| 2.4| -| 3|-| style="text-align:left;" | Santa Cruz| style="background:; color:white;"|56.1| 4| 28.4| 2| 6.9| -| 2.0| -| 3.7| -| 6|-| style="text-align:left;" | Santana| style="background:; color:white;"|65.2| 2| 25.6| -| 3.7| -| 0.8| -| 1.6| -| 2|-| style="text-align:left;" | São Vicente| style="background:; color:white;"|61.2| 2| 24.1| -| 10.0| -| 0.6| -| 1.3| -| 2|- class="unsortable" style="background:#E9E9E9"| style="text-align:left;" | Total| style="background:; color:white;"|56.9| 41| 24.8| 13| 7.3| 2| 4.0| 2| 4.0| 1| 59|-| colspan=12 style="text-align:left;" | Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições|}