1996 Mongolian parliamentary election
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Parliamentary elections were held in Mongolia on 30 June 1996. The result was a victory for the Democratic Union Coalition, which won 50 of the 76 seats in the State Great Khural, the unicameral parliament of Mongolia. The former ruling Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party lost 45 of its seats and was reduced to a minority of 25 seats. The Mongolian Traditional United Party won a single seat. Voter turnout was 92%.
The MPRP was out of government for the first time in its 75 years since the 1921 People's Revolution. The election was the first major legislative victory by the Mongolian opposition, and marked the first fully non-MPRP government since 1921.
Contesting parties
For the 1996 election, 302 candidates were registered by the newly established General Election Commission, of whom 35 were independents and 267 were running from the following 5 political parties and 2 coalitions.
American involvement
The National Endowment for Democracy, a U.S. Government agency, helped unite several political parties, intellectuals, businessmen, students and other activists into the Democratic Union Coalition and then trained them in grassroots campaigning and membership recruiting. They also assisted in distributing 350,000 copies of a manifesto calling for private property rights, a free press and foreign investment to help convince people to vote out the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party.
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