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Question: Name the least popular votes for year less than 1994 and percentage of 0.96%
Columns: ['Year', 'Office', 'Candidate', 'Popular Votes', 'Percentage']
Types: ['real', 'text', 'text', 'real', 'text']
Sample row: [1986.0, 'MN Attorney General', 'Derrick Grimmer', 16394.0, '1.17%']
SQL:

assistant: SELECT MIN("Popular Votes") FROM "Table" WHERE "Year" < 1994.0 AND "Percentage" = '0.96%';