Cyprus 1996 legislative election

Final results from ParlGov, read 5 October 2026: Democratic Rally won 20 of 56 seats with 34.5% of the vote; 92.9% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 0.1 points on 1991.

Cyprus
Held Sunday 26 May 1996

Result

29 for a majority

Seats and votes by party

Party	Seats	± seats	%	± points	Votes
Democratic Rally	20	0	34.5	−1.3	127,380
Progressive Party of Working People	19	+1	33.0	+2.4	121,958
Democratic Party	10	−1	16.4	−3.2	60,726
EDEK Socialist Party	5	−2	8.1	−2.8	30,033
United Democrats	2		3.7		13,623
New Horizons	0		1.7		6,317
Democratic Socialist Renewal Movement	0	0	1.4	−1.0	5,311
Movement of Ecologists – Citizens' Cooperation	0		1.0		3,710

± is the change against the Cyprus 1991 legislative election, party by party.

Votes by party

Democratic Rally 127,380
Progressive Party of Working People 121,958
Democratic Party 60,726
EDEK Socialist Party 30,033
United Democrats 13,623
New Horizons 6,317
Democratic Socialist Renewal Movement 5,311
Movement of Ecologists – Citizens' Cooperation 3,710

ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.

Share of the vote

Democratic Rally34.5%
Progressive Party of Working People33.0%
Democratic Party16.4%
EDEK Socialist Party8.1%
United Democrats3.7%
New Horizons1.7%
Democratic Socialist Renewal Movement1.4%
Movement of Ecologists – Citizens' Cooperation1.0%

Turnout

92.9% of the 409,996 registered voters cast a ballot (381,051 ballots), down 0.1 points on 1991. 369,521 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1976 in our data. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

Democratic Rally34.5% of votes35.7% of seats
Progressive Party of Working People33.0% of votes33.9% of seats
Democratic Party16.4% of votes17.9% of seats
EDEK Socialist Party8.1% of votes8.9% of seats
United Democrats3.7% of votes3.6% of seats

Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.3 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.8 by votes and 3.5 by seats; Democratic Rally led Progressive Party of Working People by 1.5 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal

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