REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1996
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Source: IFES website


Parties
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* PCM (Partidul Comunistilor din Moldova) Communist Party
   of Moldova 
* PDAM (Partidul Democrat Agrar din Moldova) Agrarian-
   Democratic Party of Moldova
* PFD (Partidul Forcelor Democratice) Party of Democratic 
   Forces
* PRCM (Partidul Renasterii si Concilierii din Moldova) 
   Party of Revival and Accord of Moldova


FIRST ROUND: 17 NOVEMBER 1996
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Registered voters:              2,399,156
Voters cast:                    1,634,661 (68.1%)
Invalid votes:                     76,801 (04.6%)
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Candidate              Party      Votes    %
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Veronica Abramciuc                  6,619  00.4
lulia Gorea-Costin                  9,926  00.6
Marina Livitchi                    33,115  02.1
Petru Lucinschi                   430,836  27.7
Valeriu Matei          PFD        138,605  08.9
Anatol Plugaru                     28,159  01.8
Andrei Sangheli        PDAM       147,555  09.5
Mircea Snegur          PRCM       603,652  38.7
Vladimir Voronin       PCM        159,393  10.2
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Total                           1,557,860
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SECOND ROUND: 1 DECEMBER 1996
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Candidate              Party      Votes    %
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Registered voters:              2,441,074
Voters cast:                    1,748,139 (71.6%)
Invalid votes:                     45,375 (02.6%)
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Candidate              Party      Votes    %
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Petru LUCINSCHI                   919,831  54.0
Mircea Snegur          PRCM       782,933  46.0
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Total                           1,702,764
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