1996 Gambian presidential election
Results
The number of invalid votes was extremely low due to the country's unique voting system of putting marbles into drums, which meant that almost no votes were rejected.

1996 Gambian presidential election

Section Title: Results
Table Section Text: The number of invalid votes was extremely low due to the country's unique voting system of putting marbles into drums, which meant that almost no votes were rejected.

Candidate	Party	Votes	%

Yahya Jammeh	Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction	220,011	55.77

Ousainou Darboe	United Democratic Party	141,387	35.84

Hamat Bah	National Reconciliation Party	21,759	5.52

Sidia Jatta	People's Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism	11,337	2.87

Invalid/blank votes	43	–

Total	394,537	100

Registered voters/turnout	446,541	88.35

Source: African Elections database

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The 1996 Gambian presidential election has 446,541 registered voters.

final_sentence: The 1996 Gambian presidential election has 446,541 registered voters.