user: ### NOW ANSWER:
Question: How many PNC votes did the election before 1996 have?
Columns: ['Election', 'Number of PNC votes', 'Share of votes', 'Seats', 'Outcome of election']
Types: ['real', 'text', 'text', 'text', 'text']
Sample row: [2008.0, '117,732', '1.4%', '2', 'Minority in parliament']
SQL:

assistant: SELECT "Number of PNC votes" FROM "Table" WHERE "Election" < 1996.0;