The 1996 Rhineland-Palatinate state election was held on 24 March 1996 to elect the members of the

Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate The Rhineland-Palatinate Landtag is the state diet of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Article 79, Section 1 of the Rhineland-Palatinate constitution provides: "The Landtag is the supreme organ of political decision-making, el ...

. The incumbent

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of the

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(SPD) and Free Democratic Party (FDP) led by

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Kurt Beck Kurt Beck (born 5 February 1949) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), who served as the 7th Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1994 to 2013 and as the 55th President of the Bundesrat in 2000/01. In May 2006, ...

retained its majority and continued in office.

Parties

The table below lists parties represented in the previous Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Election result

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, - ! colspan="2" , Party ! Votes ! % ! +/- ! Seats ! +/- ! Seats % , - , bgcolor=, , align=left ,

(SPD) , align= 821,539 , align= 39.8 , align= 5.0 , align= 43 , align= 4 , align= 42.6 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left , Christian Democratic Union (CDU) , align= 798,166 , align= 38.7 , align= 0.0 , align= 41 , align= 1 , align= 40.6 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left , Free Democratic Party (FDP) , align= 184,426 , align= 8.9 , align= 2.0 , align= 10 , align= 3 , align= 9.9 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left ,

Alliance 90/The Greens Alliance 90/The Greens (german: Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, ), often simply referred to as the Greens ( ), is a Green politics, green List of political parties in Germany, political party in Germany. It was formed in 1993 as the merger of The Greens ...

(Grüne) , align= 142,665 , align= 6.9 , align= 0.4 , align= 7 , align= 0 , align= 6.9 , - ! colspan=8, , - , bgcolor=, , align=left , The Republicans (REP) , align= 71,499 , align= 3.5 , align= 1.4 , align= 0 , align= ±0 , align= 0 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left , Others , align= 45,431 , align= 2.2 , align= , align= 0 , align= ±0 , align= 0 , - ! align=right colspan=2, Total ! align= 2,063,726 ! align= 100.0 ! align= ! align= 101 ! align= ±0 ! align= , - ! align=right colspan=2, Voter turnout ! align= ! align= 70.8 ! align= 3.1 ! align= ! align= ! align=

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